Die Laaste Middagmaal
Die Laaste Middagmaal (“The last midday meal”) is an one-act play by Wilma Stockenström (1933-).
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The original text
It is an absurdist play about lunch in an Afrikaner household.
Joint winner of a one-act play competition organised for the The Space (Cape Town) by the Foundation for Art and Theatre in 1973. (The other joint winner was Sheila Roberts’s My Weekend, Too.)
Performed as Die Laaste Middagmaal in The Outer Space (at the The Space) in 1975, and the text was published as Laaste Middagmaal ("Last midday meal") by Taurus Publishers in 1978.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1975: First staged as part of a double-bill in the Outer Space (Cape Town) in 1975, directed by Limpie Basson, with Danie Botha, Johan Burgher, Carina du Plessis, Faan Oosthuizen and Cornelia Stander. The stage managers were Bill Anderson and Fatima Dike.
1983: Performed by PACOFS with Anton Dekker as as "Andries"
Sources
Astbury 1979.
Material held by NELM: [Collection: SIEFF, Percy]: 2013. 25. 15. 4.
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