Coming Home
There are at least two South African plays entitled Coming Home.
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Coming Home a musical by Kriben Pillay (1993)
The play
This is an adaptation and renaming by Pillay of the musical Side by Side Masisizane (Pillay, Devar and Caminsky, 1989), which tells the same story but in the context of exiles returning home.
See also Side by Side Masisizane
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1993: The piece premiered at the Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in 1993 as part of the main festival.
Sources
"UTEL saves historic theatre productions for the archives", Alumni Relations, University of Kwazulu-Natal (October 31, 2018)[1]
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Coming Home a play by Athol Fugard (2009)
The original text
Written by Athol Fugard (1932-), it is a sequel to his 1995 play Valley Song and continues the story of Veronica Jonkers's journey after the incidents recorded in the earlier work.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2009: Staged in The Studio at the Baxter Theatre, directed by Ross Devenish, with Bronwyn van Graan (Veronica), Terry Hector (Grandpa), David Isaacs and child actors Devan Walbrugh and Cinga Vanda.
Sources
Die Burger, 19 March 2009
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