Strike Up The Banned
by Pieter-Dirk Uys. An anti-censorship revue.
Contents
The original text
First performed in 1975 at the Space Theatre.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
First performed in 1975 at the Space Theatre with Trix Pienaar, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Vincent Ebrahim, Jacqui Delhaye, Maria Jensen and directed by Uys.
In 1976 it went to the Grahamstown Festival and on tour with Lynne Maree, Blaise Koch, Wilma Stockenström, Michele Maxwell, and Pieter-Dirk Uys.
In 1978 it played at the Market Theatre with Pieter-Dirk Uys, Rika Sennett, and others.
The one sketch, originally starring by Pieter-Dirk Uys and Trix Pienaar and representing a serial called Die Van Aardes van Grootoor was expanded in 1977 to become the hugely succesful play Die Van Aardes van Grootoor.
Sources
Sunday Times 19 October 1976.
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