Sylvia

Sylvia is the title given to two plays by South African authors:

Sylvia by Ian Ferguson

First staged at the Little Theatre, Cape Town, in the late 1970s or early 1980s, according to the theatre programme for the production of Ferguson's Falstaff (1984)

Sylvia by Lydia Pienaar

A one-woman piece about the life and work of Sylvia Plath, compiled from her writings and first performed by Pienaar in the Drama Department, Stellenbosch University, directed by Johann van Heerden in 1987.

Sources

Theatre programme for the production of Ian Ferguson's Falstaff (1984)

Curriculum Vitae of Johann van Heerden (2011)

Linda Pienaar. 1987. Typed copy of Sylvia, held in the Drama Department archive at the University of Stellenbosch.

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