Henrietta with Love
Henrietta with Love is a play by Peter Voges (1937-)
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Set in Alicedale in Athlone round about about 1946, it deals with the lives of a community – Alicedale in Athlone – when their shell-shocked men returned from the war in Europe and North Africa, having received with no counselling. It is a one-woman play,and it is one story, but it speaks for generations of families who have been ravaged by the effects of this.The play looks at the relationship between racial issues and traumatic stress disorder. Written for Lee-Ann van Rooi and performed as her first leading role, it opened at ArtsCape in 2015. .
The play was nominated for a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in 2016.
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Performance history in South Africa
2015: Performed at the ArtsCape Arena in 2015, featuring Lee-Ann van Rooi as "Henrietta".
2016: Performed at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Sources
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6231928/
Leletu Gxuluwe. 2016. "First-time playwright nominated for award", Cape Argus, 6 July 2016[1]
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