Cecily

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Cecily is a one-act play by Gillian Plowman [1]

The original text

A play for 3 women, exploring the intense and complicated family relationships that exist between Cecily, brain-damaged following a motorcycle accident, her lone parent Sheila and her aunt Ellen.

Published by Samuel French in 1991.

Translations and adaptations

An expanded full-length version called Imagine Imogen was read at the London New Play Festival in 1997.

The English text translated into Afrikaans by Johann Brand, the text published by DALRO in 1994.


Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://www.gillian-plowman.co.uk/play/cecily/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Plowman

The performance text of Katryntjie, published as a DALRO Playscript in 1994.

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