My Naam/My Name is Ellen Pakkies

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My Naam/My Name is Ellen Pakkies a play by Liz Meiring.

The original text

A play based on the true story of Ellen Pakkies, a seemingly ordinary woman living in a notoriously violent area named Lavender Hill, in the vicinity of Cape Town, who murdered her beloved son Adam, or 'Abie' as she called him, a crystal metaphetatimine (tik) addict.

The story created an international stir in 2007 and 2008 and continued to do so for years afterwards. Two international doctorates were written about her and, besides this play, a documentary about her won film-maker Michael Duffet a South African Journalism Award and a feature film called Ellen: Die Ellen Pakkies Stories was released in 2018.

The bilingual play My Naam/My Name is Ellen Pakkies, written and directed by Lizz Meiring, is coming to the Joburg Promusica Main Theatre on Friday, 4 May and Saturday, 5 May at 20:00.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2011: Performed at Aardklop Festival in 2011, with .

2012: Performed at the Joburg Promusica Theatre on 4 and 5 May. .


https://www.mediaupdate.co.za/media/46510/promusica-to-stage-my-naammy-name-is-ellen-pakkies

Sources

Beeld, 26 September 2011.

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