WAM (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

WAM! (A magical music tour) is a musical play by Janice Honeyman (1949-).

Other titles include WAM (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Also found as WAM! (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) or referred to simply as WAM.

Not to be confused with the similarly titled 2010 dance and music production called WAM! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, A journey through Mozart’s life in music and dance[1], a stage production conceived and adapted by the choreographer David Palmer, based on Mozart’s letters and his music.

The original text

Subtitled "A magical music tour" (sometimes also found as "A magical tour through music"), the text was developed, written and staged by in South Africa by Janice Honeyman.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans by Wilma Stockenström. The text of the translation is unpublished, though a copy of the typed text was found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives.

Performance history in South Africa

1975: First performed in English and Afrikaans by the PACT Playwork Company, directed by Janice Honeyman in the Breytenbach Theatre, Pretoria and the Alexander Theatre, Johannesburg.

1991: The Afrikaans only version was presented by Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in the H.B. Thom Theatre in May 1991, directed by Juanita Swanepoel, assisted by Margit Meyer-Rödenbeck, musical direction by André van der Merwe with Waldemar Schultz as Mozart.

Sources

Walter Greyvenstein. 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.

A photocopy of the typed English text of the play, including a foreword by the author/director and the sheet music, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.

H.B. Thom Theatre pamphlet, 1991

A photocopy of the text of the Afrikaans translation by Wilma Stockenström, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.

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