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Henrietta with Love is a one-woman play by Peter Voges (1937-2019)
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Set in Alicedale in Athlone round about about 1946, it deals with the lives of a community – Alicedale in Athlone – when their shell-shocked men returned from the war in Europe and North Africa, having received no counselling.
Written for Lee-Ann van Rooi and performed as her first leading role, it opened at ArtsCape in 2015, and was nominated for a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in 2016.
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Performance history in South Africa
2015: Performed at the ArtsCape Arena in 2015, featuring Lee-Ann van Rooi as "Henrietta".
2016: Performed at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Sources
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6231928/
Karen Kotze. 2016. "Life’s stories on stage", False Bay Echo[1]
Leletu Gxuluwe. 2016. "First-time playwright nominated for award", Cape Argus, 6 July 2016[2]
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