Mille Miglia

Mille Miglia is a TV screenplay about motor racing written for broadcast by BBC television in 1968 by Athol Fugard (1932-).

The Original Text

The text focuses on a famous racing driver (Stirling Moss) and Motor Sport correspondent, Denis Jenkinson, as they prepare for the 1955 Mille Miglia 1000 mile motor race across Italy.

Published in Modern Stage Directions (eds Stephen Gray and David Schalkwyk, pub. Maskew Miller Longman, 1984). Also published in My Children! My Africa! and Selected Shorter Plays by Wits University Press.

Translations and adaptations

Adapted for the stage by David Muir, entitled Drivers.

Sources

Publicity sheet for the Space production of Drivers [an adaptation of Mille Miglia by David Muir] held by NELM: [Collection: Fugard, Athol]: 1989. 1. 7. 1. 2.

See also

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