The Cure
The Cure is a play by Athol Fugard and the Serpent Players. An adaptation of La Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli, to a township setting in the Eastern Cape.
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
First performed in New Brighton *****.
Performed by the Serpent Players, including John Kani, Winston Ntshona and Nomhle Nkonyeni in Grahamstown in September 1971.
NELM: Playscript. Transcribed from original cataloguing [Typeset (photocopy) with holograph emendations.] - Accompanied by a note in Don Maclennan's hand: "copy of text used by Serpent Players".
Programme of the Serpent Players production of "The Cure", together with the Rhodes University Players production of "A place of safety" . -- [1963]. [Athol Fugard directed and acted in "A place of safety"]
Sources
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