Die Verkeerde Trein
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Die Verkeerde Trein ("The wrong train") is an Afrikaans translation and adaptation of an unnamed English play.
The original text
According to the manuscript of the translation, found in 2022, the original text (not named), is one of the plays in in Cameo Plays (Book 2), edited by George H. Holroyd and published by E. J. Arnold & Son Ltd. in 1943.
The English work has been localised in the Western Cape region and translated into Afrikaans as Die Verkeerde Trein by an unnamed author, probably for performance by the Montagu Drama Club.
Sources
A typed copy of the Afrikaans text for Die Verkeerde Trein, bearing the inked stamp of the Montagu Drama Club ...Klub, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archive in 2022.
