Die Pluimsaad Waai Ver
[Lit. “The Plumed Seed is Wafted Far”] by N.P. van Wyk Louw.
The play focussed on a reinterpretation of the Anglo-Boer War and the notion of an Afrikaner Nation. The fact that the play asks “what is a nation?” led to a direct confrontation with H.F. Verwoerd and significantly broadened the growing split between the government and the more liberal Afrikaner writers.
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The original text
Published as Die pluimsaad waai ver, of, Bitter begin by Human & Rousseau, 1972.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1966: A play commissioned by the Performing Arts Council for the Transvaal for the first Republic Festival. Directed by Truida Louw, with Anna Neethling-Pohl as the narrator, starring Louis van Niekerk and Marius Weyers.
1967: Staged by PACOFS, directed by Joey de Koker with Maria Bosman and Johan Botha.
1969: Staged by the Drama Department of the Stellenbosch University, in association with CAPAB, in the H.B. Thom Theatre and the Bellville Civic Theatre, directed by Ria Olivier, with Babs Laker, Tommie Smit, Pieter Bredenkamp, Hermann Pretorius, Gerhard Roux, Charles Fryer, Michael Stewart, Fred le Roux, Annelize van der Rijst, Johan Esterhuizen.
Sources
Stellenbosch University Library catalogue
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