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| − | by [[Athol Fugard]]. A play about the bonding of two black brothers, one of whom is lighter skinned and has been passing for white. Fugard’s first truly successful play, one which is highly regarded internationally as well, it first opened at the [[Rehearsal Room]] at [[Dorkay House]] on 3rd September, 1961 before an invited interracial audience. Directed by Fugard, who played “Morris” with [[Zakes Mokae]] as “Zachariah”, and with designs by [[Frank Graves]]. It opened at the [[Intimate Theatre]] on 11 November 1961(1963?*). This production marked the birth of a new South African accent and focus in South African theatre. It toured the country and was shown to acclaim in London For example, it was staged at the [[Labia Theatre]], Cape Town on the evening of 12 February 1962, and - commissioned by the British publisher Andrew Deutsch, was staged on London’s West End in May 1962. | + | A play by [[Athol Fugard]]. |
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| − | Later Fugard reworked it and changed the title to '''Bloodknot'''. This was directed by [[Benjy Francis]] in the [[Market Theatre|Upstairs Theatre]] at the [[Market Theatre]] in 1976.
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| − | The play was first published in 1961/4?*. A revised version was published under the title ''Bloodknot''[Blood Knot?*] in 198* and performed by ** in 1988**. (See Gosher, 1988) ''Blood Knot, The'' by Athol Fugard. Athol and Zakes Mokae starred in this play which opened at the [[Rhodes Theatre]] in Grahamstown in July 1961, and then played at the Rehearsal Room at Dorkay House in September. [[Leon Gluckman]] then presented it at the Intimate.
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| − | ''Three Port Elizabeth plays : The blood knot, Hello and goodbye, Boesman and Lena'' / Athol Fugard. London : Oxford University Press, 1974
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| − | This play was staged again at Upstairs at The Market, directed by Benjy Francis and starring Francis and [[Fats Bookholane]] in 1976. [[Barney Simon]] directed this play starring [[John Kani]] and [[Marcel van Heerden]] for [[PACT]] in 1988. ''Bloedbroers'', an Afrikaans translation by [[Kobus J. Kotze]] was performed at the Absa [[Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees|KKNK]] in 2009, directed by [[Zane Meas]] with [[Christo Davids]] and [[Hennie Jacobs]]. Published in ''[[Simondium]]'' and also in [[Boesman and Lena ''and Other Plays'']] ([[Oxford University Press]]).
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