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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
  
Based on a short story, it is about a murder and the chase to catch the murderer.
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Attributed to Elizabeth Lowe in the programme, it is based on a short story, and is a short play about a murder and the chase to catch the murderer.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:53, 6 November 2024

Die Bekentenis ("The Confession") is a one-act play by Elizabeth Lowe.

The original text

Attributed to Elizabeth Lowe in the programme, it is based on a short story, and is a short play about a murder and the chase to catch the murderer.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1971: Staged by PACT, directed by Truida Louw, featuring Paul Eilers (Karel), Wilna Snyman (Isabella), George Ballot (Tinus), Annette Engelbrecht (Alet) and Jannie Lindeque (Maartin).

Sources

George Ballot scrapbooks. (Provisionally held in the ESAT Archive, with the kind permission of Prof Muller Ballot[1] and consulted 2024).

Etensuurtoneel programme, PACT, June-July, 1971.

Petru & Carel Trichardt theatre programme collection.

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