Some Mothers' Sons
Some Mothers' Sons is a play by Mike van Graan.
A full-length play extended version of van Graan's playlet, Thabo for Thabo. This came about as the result of Thabo for Thabo being staged as a reading in Rotterdam in 1999, after which the actors requested that the playlet be developed into a full-length piece. Six years later, Van Graan did this and entered it into the NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing in 2005.
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The original text
A play about two individuals who both experience violence in intensely personal manners; one, as a detainee during apartheid and the other, as a person living in a city now wracked by violent crime.
The play was selected as a finalist in the 2005 NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing for Drama. The play premiered at the ABSA KKNK in April 2006.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2006: Performed at the ABSA KKNK in April.
2006: Performed at the Baxter Theatre
Sources
https://mikevangraan.co.za/plays/some-mothers2019-sons
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