God's Forgotten

by Pieter-Dirk Uys. A bilingual play which takes a futuristic look at a nightmare South Africa, providing a dark and perssimistic look at a family of Afrikaner women besieged during a projected civil war. A play about what might have happened under apartheid.

The original text

First published in Theatre One (ed Stephen Gray) by Ad Donker, 1981. Also published in Paradise is Closing Down and other Plays by Penguin.

Performance history in South Africa

First performed in the Outer Space (Cape Town) in 1975 directed and designed by Pieter-Dirk Uys, with Christine Basson, Blaise Koch, Lynne Maree, Maralin Vanrenen and Esther van Ryswyk. Lighting by Brian Astbury and stage managent by Richard Morrison and Vincent Ebrahim.

Also performed Upstairs at the Market Theatre in 1976 with Christine Basson, Lynne Maree, Michele Maxwell, Wilma Stockenström, Blaise Koch – Directed by Pieter-Dirk Uys.

Presented by Syrkel Theatre Company in Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg, 1975/1976.

1979 La Mama NYC: Maggie Soboil, Lizette Lecat, Madeleine le Roux, Christina Avis-Krauss, Joel Rooks – dir: Mavis Taylor.

Staged, together with Karnaval and Paradise is Closing Down ("The Cape Town Trilogy"), in July 1995 by the newly formed A Company of Actors in the Dock Road Theatre and in August 1995 in the Youth Theatre at the Civic Theatre, directed by Mark Graham, with Trix Pienaar, Lynne Maree, Deirdre Wolhuter, Gretha Brazelle and Jonathan Pienaar.

Sources

Astbury 1979.

Syrkel theatre programme, 1976.

Cape Argus 9 June 1995.

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