Dear Mrs Steyn
One-woman play inspired by and based upon the letters and journals of Emily Hobhouse to Mrs Rachel Steyn, script by Deon Opperman, Garth Holmes and Wilna Snyman (1999).
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Subject
During the Second Boer War (1899-1902) Emily Hobhouse wrote a series of letters to her close friend and soul mate Mrs Rachel Isabella Steyn, wife of M.T. Steyn, State President of the Orange Free State. Her focus was on the suffering of the Afrikaner women and children incarcerated in the British concentration camps.
Performance history in South Africa
Premièred in Die Teaterhuisie in May 1999 (centenary year of the start of the South African War, 1899-1902), with Wilna Snyman and directed by Deon Opperman. The same production played in The Baxter Theatre Concert Hall in May 1999, the Windybrow in October 1999 and at the KKNK of 1999. It was staged, with Wilna Snyman a number of times since the 1999 première.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
KKNK Festival programme, 1999.
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