An Audience with Miss Hobhouse
A one woman play by Tony Jackman.
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The original text
A play about Emily Hobhouse and the horrors of the British army's scorched earth policy and the concentration camps they introduced, in which now homeless Boer women and children were incarcerated and thousands died.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2013: First produced by Tony Jackman, directed by Christopher Weare and performed by Lynita Crofford. It played at the National Arts Festival (where it won the Standard Bank Ovation Award for 2013), in Johannesburg and at the Clover Aardklop festival in Potchefstroom.
2014: Performed at the Alexander Theatre Upstairs in Cape Town
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