Henrietta with Love
Henrietta with Love is a one-woman play by Peter Voges (1937-2019).
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Set in Alicedale in Athlone round about about 1946, it deals with the lives of a community – Alicedale in Athlone – when their shell-shocked men returned from the war in Europe and North Africa, having received no counselling.
Written for Lee-Ann van Rooi and performed as her first leading role, it opened at ArtsCape in 2015, and was nominated for a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in 2016.
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Performance history in South Africa
2015: Performed at the ArtsCape Arena in 2015, featuring Lee-Ann van Rooi as "Henrietta", directed by Sandra Temmingh.
2016: Performed at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Sources
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6231928/
Cape Argus, 12 August 2015.
Karen Kotze. 2016. "Life’s stories on stage", False Bay Echo[1]
Leletu Gxuluwe. 2016. "First-time playwright nominated for award", Cape Argus, 6 July 2016[2]
Athina May. 2018. "Rising playwright Peter Voges, started when he was 79-years-old", Cape Argus, 27 August 2018[3]
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