Resurrection

Resurrection can refer to two plays produced in South Africa

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy (1905)

Performance history in South Africa

1905: Performed by the William Haviland and his company in the Opera House, Cape Town, in June.

Sources

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.422

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Resurrection by Richard Rive (1966)

The original text

A one-act play, adapted by Richard Rive () from his short story of the same name, it deals with the ambiguities of the "coloured" designation - a theme which Rive will return to in Buckingham Palace, District Six.

The play was first performed in April 1966 by Experimental Theatre at the University of Columbia and published in Short African Plays (Ed: Cosmo Pieterse, 1968 ) by Heinemann and later again in Selected Writings (Johannesburg: Ad Donker, 1976).

Performance history in South Africa

Presented by the University of the Witwatersrand as part of a double bill with All's Well at the National Arts Festival Student Drama in 1985 starring Jacquiline Dommisse, Gilda Blacher, Niel Lessick. Directed by Graeme Messer, stage manager Mary Gill, lighting Paul Abrahams, company manager Morag Todd.

Sources

National Arts Festival programme, 1985.

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