Die Skandaal
Die Skandaal, written and adapted by Deon Opperman and Lizz Meiring, using The Country Wife by Wycherley and The School for Scandal by Sheridan as source texts. The play is set in the present in a security complex in Centurion. It is a comedy about middle-class Afrikaans society, as the body-corporate members of a block of flates squabble, lie, cheat and adulterise while trying hard to keep up a facade of respectability.
Performance history in South Africa
Directed by Opperman for its performance at the Grahamstown Festival and the Nico Malan Theatre in 1997, starring André Odendaal, Hannes Muller, Lizz Meiring, Eric Nobbs, Susan Danford, David Clatworthy, Wilmien Rossouw, Stephen Jennings. Set designed by James MacNamara, costumes by Thomas Thompson.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
National Arts Festival programme, 1997
Cape Times 22 December 1997.
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