Tussenspel by 'n Bushalte
Tussenspel by 'n Bushalte ("Interlude at a busstop") is a radio drama by Morkel van Tonder (1923-2013)
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A radio drama written by radio announcer and author Morkel van Tonder, the piece brings together two would-be suicides ("Willem" and "Marie") on the roof of a tall building, the tenants of the first seven floors of which are symbolic of various stations of life. On the first level there is a registry office of births and deaths and then successively a life insurance company, a law firm, a pastoral psychologist, a marriage bureau, a doctor and an undertaker and these levels with their activities are then representative of the broad spectrum of existence from the beginning of life to death.
Published by Human & Rousseau, first in the collection Sewe Stasies en Ander Hoorspele (1983 and 1986) then included in Voort met die Spel (1991).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Morkel van Tonder. 1983. Sewe Stasies en Ander Hoorspele. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau.
https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morkel_van_Tonder
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