Difference between revisions of "Voor Dit Gebeur"
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Written in “[[Kaaps]]”, or "[[Cape Afrikaans]]", it is a play about municipal workers and the effect on them of finding an abandoned baby in a drain. | Written in “[[Kaaps]]”, or "[[Cape Afrikaans]]", it is a play about municipal workers and the effect on them of finding an abandoned baby in a drain. | ||
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Later expanded to become the full-length play ''[[Die Drein]]''. | Later expanded to become the full-length play ''[[Die Drein]]''. | ||
Latest revision as of 06:35, 10 March 2023
Voor Dit Gebeur ("Before it happens ") is a one-act play with music by Peter Snyders.
Contents
The original text
Written in “Kaaps”, or "Cape Afrikaans", it is a play about municipal workers and the effect on them of finding an abandoned baby in a drain.
The text unpublished.
Later expanded to become the full-length play Die Drein.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1975: First performed in the Joseph Stone Auditorium by the Belhar Amateur Dramavereniging
1977: Performed by Unison Players
Sources
Bound copy of the typed text of Voor Dit Gebeur, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.
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