Die Pluimsaad Waai Ver

[Lit. “The Plumed Seed is Wafted Far”] by N.P. van Wyk Louw.

The play focussed on a reinterpretation of the Anglo-Boer War and the notion of an Afrikaner Nation. The fact that the play asks “what is a nation?” led to a direct confrontation with H.F. Verwoerd and significantly broadened the growing split between the government and the more liberal Afrikaner writers.

The original text

Published as Die pluimsaad waai ver, of, Bitter begin by Human & Rousseau, 1972.

Performance history in South Africa

A play commissioned by the Performing Arts Council for the Transvaal for the first Republic Festival in 1966. Directed by Truida Louw, with Anna Neethling-Pohl as the narrator, starring Louis van Niekerk and Marius Weyers.

PACOFS 1967, directed by Joey de Koker with Maria Bosman and Johan Botha.

In 1969 the Drama Department of the Stellenbosch University, in association with CAPAB presented the play in the H.B. Thom Theatre and the Bellville Civic Theatre, directed by Ria Olivier, with Babs Laker, Tommie Smit, Pieter Bredenkamp, Hermann Pretorius, Gerhard Roux, Charles Fryer, Michael Stewart, Fred le Roux, Annelize van der Rijst, Johan Esterhuizen.

>>>>>>>>>>>>> [Lit. “The Plumed Seed is Wafted Far”] by N.P. van Wyk Louw. A play commissioned by the Performing Arts Council for the Transvaal for the first Republic Festival in 1966. Directed by ***, with Anna Neethling-Pohl as the narrator. The play focussed on a reinterpretation of the Anglo-Boer War and the notion of an Afrikaner Nation. The fact that the play asks “what is a nation?” led to a direct confrontation with H.F Verwoerd and significantly broadened the growing split between the government and the more liberal Afrikaner writers. First published by ** in ?*Human en Rousseau in 196*.Published by Human & Rousseau.

Sources

Stellenbosch University Library catalogue

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