Môre is ‘n Lang Dag
(“Tomorrow is a Long Day”) by Deon Opperman. Acclaimed bilingual (Afrikaans and English) play about young men conscripted into the army and serving on the (South West African [=Namibian]) border to fight the “terrorist” onslaught during the late 1970s. The play explores their attitudes to war, discipline, and each other and “the other”. First performed with students from Rhodes University in the Masker Teater at the second Kampustoneel (“Campus Theatre”) Festival in Pretoria in April 1983*?. The first professional production at the Market Theatre in 1984. First published by Tafelberg in 1986. Revived and performed at various festivals in 2008-9 (including the Inniebos-fees, 2008, KKNK 2009, Aardklop, 2009) produced and directed by Albert Maritz, with Robbie Wessels, Sean Else, Tauriq Jenkins, William Michaels, Jan-Hendrik Opperman. Stage manager Gaerin Hauptfleisch. Published in Môre is ‘n Lang Dag en Die Teken by Tafelberg.
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