End of the Road

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End of the Road (or The End of the Road) has been an extremely popular title for songs, stories, plays and films. Besides the well-known Boyz II Men music video of 1991 and the End of the Road Festival[1] held annually in England, there are a number of stage plays, TV dramas or series and films by this name:

International titles

Among the many occurrences of the titles have been the following, a number of them shown or broadcast in South Africa as well:

The End of the Road (1919 film), a 1919 silent film

The End of the Road (1936 film), a British musical film

End of the Road (1944 film), an American film

The End of the Road (1954 film), a British drama film

The End of the Road, a 1958 novel by John Barth

The End of the Road (1957 film), a British film

End of the Road (1970), a film directed by Aram Avakian. (Adapted from The End of the Road, a 1958 novel by John Barth)[2]

The End of the Road (1976 film), a British documentary film

End of the Road (1993 play), a stage adaptation of the Barth novel by director Paul Edwards for Roadworks Productions.

The End of the Road a 1989 novel and radio show by Tom Bodett

"The End of the Road", an episode of the television series On the Yorkshire Buses

"End of the Road", an episode of the Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds

"End of the Road" , an episode of the TV series Torchwood: Miracle Day

For more titles and information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_the_Road_(disambiguation)

South African plays and films

End of the Road a stage play by Jill Fletcher (1985)

End of the Road is a play about euthanasia by Jill Fletcher and tells of an old lady who demands the right to die.

1985: Peformed on the National Arts Festival Fringe, directed by Jill Fletcher in a double bill with No. 12 Flower Street (Fletcher).

End of the Road a TV film by Greg Latter (2008)

Written and directed by Greg Latter, it is a made-for-TV comedy film, produced by Film Afrika for M-Net and screened thirteen times on M-Net in 2008. The film starred Paddy Lister, Jennifer Steyn, Shirley Johnston,

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_the_Road_(disambiguation)

National Arts Festival programme, 1985.

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