The Sea my Winding Sheet
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The Sea my Winding Sheet is a radio play by Douglas Livingstone (1932-1969).
A wry reworking of Luis De Camoes’s epic poem The Lusiads, about the Adamastor myth, through which Livingstone parodies the European-African encounter.
Broadcast 1964 (by the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation), directed by John Parry. It was awarded BBC/Federal Broadcasting Corporation Prize 1963.
It was first staged in 1971 by the Theatre Workshop Company of the University of Natal, under the direction of Pieter Scholtz.
Published in Theatre One, edited by Stephen Gray, 1978. (See Gosher, 1988).
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