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''Voorlopige Vonnis'' ("Provisional Sentence") by [[Jozef van Hoeck]]. The story is based on the history of two nuclear physicists, Dr Klaus Fuchs and Dr Alan Nunn, combined into the one character Stefan Oster.  
 
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==

Revision as of 10:57, 17 April 2015

by Jozef van Hoeck. Full-length. Cast: mixed. The story is based on the history of two nuclear physicists, Dr Klaus Fuchs and Dr Alan Nunn, combined into the one character Stefan Oster.

The original text

Voorlopig vonnis : toneelspel in twee bedrijven, published by Academica in 1978.

Translations and adaptations

English translation by Rike Vaughan: Suspended Sentence. Full-length. Cast: mixed.

Translated into Afrikaans by Eitemal entitled Voorlopige Vonnis.

Performance history in South Africa

Afrikaans Produced by NTO in 1958-59, as the first production in the NTO Kamertoneel, the experimental theatre space developed in the old Harmony Hall. It was directed by Tone Brulin with Siegfried Mynhardt, Enone van den Bergh and Johan Malherbe and opened on 17 November 1958. In a subsequent NTO production in Bellville, the actors were Pieter Bredenkamp, Joey de Koker and Gerrit Wessels.

Also presented by CAPAB in its workshop theatre 13 to 21 April 1973 at the Hofmeyr Theatre. Directed by Schalk Jacobsz starring Jan Prinsloo (Stefan), Louise Mollett-Prinsloo (Ilse), Mees Xteen (Die Mens).

CAPAB, directed by Esther van Ryswyk, starring Neels Coetzee, Libby Daniels, Francois Viljoen, 198*. Lighting by Skip Wright.

English Suspended Sentence directed by Rike Vaughan.

Sources

KRUIK Werksteater programme, 1973.

Grütter, Wilhelm, CAPAB 25 Years, 1987. Unpublished research.

Lantern, 8(2):187, Dec 1958; 9(2):192-197, Dec 1959.


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