Die Verminktes

(Tr by the author as The Maimed) by Bartho Smit. A controversial Afrikaans play on miscegenation and Calvinist angst?*. Written in the 1950s, submitted to both National Theatre Organisation (in Afrikaans) and London's Royal Court Theatre (in English) in 1959. Rejected for production by the state funded NTO, it was for many years denied performance in Afrikaans. However the the English version was performed in Britain in 1960?* and won the Brittania Award. Eventually performed in Afrikaans by PACT in 1976*?, directed by Francois Swart?*. First published in 1960 by Afrikaanse Pers Boekhandel. A second edition was published by Perskor in 1976. The English version remains unpublished.

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