Die Wraak van Exkoningin Bobbit

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Die Wraak van Exkoningin Bobbit ("The revenge of ex-queen Bobbit") is a play by Ben Dehaeck.

Also found written Die Wraak van Ex-koningin Bobbit

The original text

Written as a grotesque fairytale, seemingly inspired by the famous case of Lorena Bobbitt[1], it was performed by the Breughel G at the .

The text unpublished, though a typed copy was found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022. Handwritten comments in the text suggest it is the text used by one of the judges. my be a play written as an exercise a playwriting course at the University. Internal evidence refers to for the Breughel Teater Groep and suggests it may be a play written for (possibly performed) by that company, while stylistic aspects indicate that it may have been written by one of the membersof the group, or even by its leader and mentor, Ben Dehaeck.

(1994, awarded best youth drama in Afrikaans by the Department of Education and Culture in the Western Cape);

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Typed copy of the original text, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.

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