Rehearsal in Progress
Rehearsal in Progress is a play by Brendan Butler
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The original text
According to actor/director/playwright Neil McCarthy, this is a play about being a parabat during the border war.
The text received a Special Merit Award in the the Amstel Playwright of the Year[1] competition of 1983.
Translations and adaptations
Though there is no record of the play being produced, the text would provide the initial seeds for the Barney Simon workshop production of Black Dog-Inj'emnyama!, and particularly the character "Raymond" in it.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstel_Playwright_of_the_Year_Award
Neil McCarthy in Irene Stephanou and Leila Henriques. 2011. The World in an Orange: Creating Theatre with Barney Simon Seven Stories Press.
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