Difference between revisions of "An Audience with Miss Hobhouse"

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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
2013: First performed at the [[Grahamstown Festival|National Arts Festival]] by [[Lynita Crofford]], directed by [[Christopher Weare]], where it won the ([[Standard Bank Ovation Award]] for 2013.
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2013: First produced by [[Tony Jackman]], directed by [[Christopher Weare]] and performed by [[Lynita Crofford]]. It played at the [[Grahamstown Festival|National Arts Festival]] (where it won the [[Standard Bank Ovation Award]] for 2013), in Johan­nes­burg and at the Clover [[Aard­klop]] festival in Potchefstroom.
 
 
  
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2014: Performed at the Alexander Theatre Upstairs  in Cape Town
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 10:19, 2 January 2015

A one woman play by Tony Jackman.

The original text

A play about Emily Hobhouse and the horrors of the British army's scorched earth policy and the concentration camps they introduced, in which now homeless Boer women and children were incarcerated and thousands died.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2013: First produced by Tony Jackman, directed by Christopher Weare and performed by Lynita Crofford. It played at the National Arts Festival (where it won the Standard Bank Ovation Award for 2013), in Johan­nes­burg and at the Clover Aard­klop festival in Potchefstroom.

2014: Performed at the Alexander Theatre Upstairs in Cape Town

Sources

https://www.facebook.com/AnAudienceWithMissHobhouse

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