Debbie Go Home
Debbie Go Home is the title of a few works based on a short story by Alan Paton.
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Debbie Go Home the original story by Alan Paton
A short story, set in South Africa, it was published in the collection Debbie Go Home in 1961. The volume also including Ha'penny; The Divided House; Life for a Life; Death of a Tsotsi; The Worst Thing of his Life; The Waste Land; A Drink in the Passage; Sponono and The Elephant-Shooter.
Debbie Go Home by Michael Picardie
A TV play adapted from Alan Paton's short story by the same name, it was produced for the BBC by James MacTaggart, with music by The Happy Wanderers and design by Richard Wilmot.
Broadcast on BBC Television, 7 November 1962. The script is unpublished.
Debbie Go Home by James Winkler
A stage play, based on the Paton story. Apparently performed in the 1980s?
Sources
https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/asapr59.22.pdf
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1f3f56f1398748dbbaf26fae13276e2d
E-mail from Michael Picardie to Temple Hauptfleisch, Monday 2015/07/06 10:46 PM.
The Michael Picardie website at http://michaelpicardie.co.uk/main.php.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2705154-debbie-go-home
Faan se Stasie theatre programme, 1985.
Various articles in The Rand Daily Mail.
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