Kloning Kwadraat
Kloning Kwadraat ("cloning squared") is a one-act farce by Barnie Mans ()
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Subtitled "‘n 'ap-toe-dyt' klug" ("an up-to-date farce"), the play was written in 1998 and won the first prize as the best new play by a high school pupil in the Upington Leeskring's a newly founded competition open to all schools in the Northern Cape.
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Performance history in South Africa
1998: First produced by pupils of the Hoërskool Martin Oosthuizen in Kakamas as part of a theatre evening, directed by Anita H. Mans and featuring Barnie Mans, Hennie van Tonder, Francois Theron, Daniel Theron, Eljoana Steenkamp and Sune Steenkamp. Lighting by Chantal Louw.
1998: The play was also performed at the Logan Toneelfees in Fraserburg, the ATKV national drama festival, and the Namakwaland Toneelfees in Springbok.
Sources
Unpublished typed copy of the text held in the Drama Department archive, University of Stellenbosch.
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