Episodes of an Easter Rising
Episodes of an Easter Rising is a one-act, radio play by David Lytton about the compassion of two elderly spinsters who harbour a wounded “terrorist” on the South African border-farm.
Contents
The original text
First published in 1972 in Short African Plays (ed Cosmo Pieterse) by Heinemann. (See Gosher, 1988)
Adaptations
Episodes of an Easter Rising, a string puppet version of a radio play by David Lytton. The play deals with the choices two white women have to make when a wounded black activist, hunted by the police, seeks refuge on their remote farm.
Performance history in South Africa
1985: Directed by Esther van Ryswyk for Handspring Puppet Company, Baxter Studio, 1985, starring Adrian Kohler, Basil Jones, Odette Leat, Mignon Lee-Warden.
Sources
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne 1988.
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