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Revision as of 20:23, 13 October 2016
Two plays by this name have been performed in South Africa: Post Mortem by Benjamin Bradford and Post Mortem by Pieter Fourie.
There are also three other registered plays by this title, not performed in the country to date:
Post Mortem (A.R. Gurney)[1], Post Mortem (Noel Coward)[2], and Postmortem (Ken Ludwig)[3].
Contents
Post Mortem by Benjamin Bradford (1925-)
The original text
First produced in Lexington, Kentucky in 1970. ***
South African performances
1973: Performed as a lunch-hour presentation at The Space (Cape Town) in 1973, directed by Bill Flynn, with Phillip Boucher, Christopher Prophet and Mike Richard. Lighting and stage management by Donald Fuller.
Sources
Go to ESAT Bibliography
Post Mortem by Pieter Fourie (1940-)
The original text
An Afrikaans play about neuroses and sexual problems, in which an unhappy woman resurrects her husband, a coloured girl and a young man from three graves in the veld, to ascertain what had really happened to them. The text published in 2016 by Protea Boekhuis.
South African performances
1993: First performed in 1993 at the Kampustoneel festival.
1999: Performed under the direction of Anton Welman
Sources
https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Fourie
Volksblad 17 Nov 2001.
Go to ESAT Bibliography
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