Coming Home

There are at least two South African plays entitled Coming Home.

Coming Home a musical by Kriben Pillay (1993)

The play

This is an adaptation and renaming by Pillay of the musical Side by Side Masisizane (Pillay, Devar and Caminsky, 1989), which tells the same story but in the context of exiles returning home.

See also Side by Side Masisizane

Translations and adaptations

A video of the original production of Coming Home is preserved by University Television (UTEL) at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, and has been made available on a YouTube channel[1] dedicated to the theatre works of the UDW Drama Department and the Asoka Theatre.

Performance history in South Africa

1993: The piece premiered at the Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in 1993 as part of the main festival.

Sources

"UTEL saves historic theatre productions for the archives", Alumni Relations, University of Kwazulu-Natal (October 31, 2018)[2]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRZeYBHnN1CkDPWBNLZjlw

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Coming Home a play by Athol Fugard (2009)

The original text

Written by Athol Fugard (1932-), it is a sequel to his 1995 play Valley Song and continues the story of Veronica Jonkers's journey after the incidents recorded in the earlier work.

Performance history in South Africa

2009: Staged in The Studio at the Baxter Theatre, directed by Ross Devenish, with Bronwyn van Graan (Veronica), Terry Hector (Grandpa), David Isaacs and child actors Devan Walbrugh and Cinga Vanda.

Sources

Die Burger, 19 March 2009

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