Dis Koud Hier

Dis Koud Hier ("It's Cold Here") is an Afrikaans play in five scenes by Braam van Wyk.

The original text

The text published by Tafelberg in 1971.

Translations and adaptations

Adapted for television and directed by Johan de Kock for the SABC Afrikaans channel, it was broadcast on Monday 20 September 1976. The cast featured George Ballot as "Willi", Babs Laker as "Bertha", Annelisa Weiland as "Retha", with Lieb Bester and Carel Trichardt as two enemy soldiers.

Stage performance history in South Africa

1975: Presented in September by Libertas Teaterklub, Stellenbosch, directed by Maureen de Kock, with Esté Heydenrych, Space van Heerden, Johan Burger, Dorothea van Schalkwyk and Hans Hugo.

1975: Presented by PEAAT at the Savoy Theatre in Port Elizabeth

Sources

George Ballot scrapbooks. (Provisionally held in the ESAT Archive, with the kind permission of Prof Muller Ballot[1] and consulted 2024).

Val Pauquet[2]. 1976 "War hero who was a hero", The Star, September, 1976.

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