The Tower
The Tower is a one-act play by Yvonne Silbert ()
Contents
The original text
A verse play set on the Tower of Babel, and featuring the biblical characters of the Archangel Michael, Saul, David, Deborah, Joel, Abraham, Zenza and various tribesmen.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
No South African performance noted to date.
Sources
http://historicalpapers-atom.wits.ac.za/writings-of-yvonne-silbert
The life story of Yvonne Silbert - arranged for a one-woman show, by Norah Taylor and Bess Finney
A complete carbon copy of the much of the text (with addition of photocopies of the lost pages, hand dated 1984), found in the archives of the Stellenbosch Drama Department in 2022.
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