Bar and Ger

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by Geraldine Aron. Aron’s hugely popular ode to her brother, who had died in a motor-cycle accident. Performed as a two-hander. First performed at The Space (Cape Town) with Wilson Dunster and Yvonne Bryceland, under the direction of Walter Donahue, 1975/8?*.

Performed as part of a Triple Bill with Mr McConkey's Suitcase and The Shrinking of Alby Chapman in the Baxter Theatre Studio in 1977. Directed by Glynn Day, starring Pippa Duffy, Glynn Day, Rita Zazeraj, Lynn Banner, Dermod Judge, Chris McWilliams, Erica Benn. (Source: Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987).

First published in Modern Stage Directions (ed. Stephen Gray and D. Schalkwyk, pub. Maskew Miller, 1984), and subsequently in Seven Plays and Four Monologues, (pub. David Philip, 1985) and Play Spectrum (ed. H. Houghton-Hawksley, pub. David Philip, 1986). Many times reprinted in a variety of other collections as well, including and Afrikaans version published in the collection ** by ** in 19**. Filmed by Ashley Lazarus for ** in 197*. (See Gosher, 1988; Astbury, 1979) [TH, JH]. Translated into Afrikaans respectively by Danie Botha and Marielle Labuschagne.


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