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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
2000: Performed at the  [[Aardklop National Arts Festival]], directed by [[Marthinus Basson]] and later staged at the [[KKNK]] and [[Grahamstown Festival]] and in mainstream theatres.
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2000: Performed at the  [[Aardklop]] National Arts Festival, directed by [[Marthinus Basson]]  
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2001: Performed at the [[KKNK]] in April. 
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Performed at the  [[Grahamstown Festival]]  
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Performed at the  and in mainstream theatres.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 08:42, 6 October 2017

Boetman is die Bliksem in! ("[this] lad is the hell in!") is an Afrikaans play by Pieter Fourie (2000).

The original text

The play is based on a letter to the press written by SABC journalist Chris Louw in reaction to the book Afrikaners: kroes, kras, kordaat by Willem de Kerk, including the resulting reaction to Louw's letter. In an attack on the power-hungry ooms ("uncles") of Apartheid, the Broederbond and the Angolan Border War, who were accused of misleading a younger generation of Afrikaner males into fighting and dying for a despicable cause. Louw’s original letter, his eponymously named book on the subject, transcripts of radio and TV interviews, newspaper articles and other documentation of the debate were all used as the basis of the stage play.

The play was a sensational hit, the first performances in September 2000 being sold out three weeks in advance and received standing ovations at every performance, while those at the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK)in April 2001 were even traded on the black market.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2000: Performed at the Aardklop National Arts Festival, directed by Marthinus Basson

2001: Performed at the KKNK in April.

Performed at the Grahamstown Festival

Performed at the and in mainstream theatres.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

Nico Luwes 2010. Pieter Fourie (1940-) se bydrae as Afrikaanse dramaturg en kunsbestuurder: 1965-2010. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Bloemfontein: University of the Free State, pp. [1]

Johann van Heerden. 2008. Theatre in a New Democracy. Some major trends in South African theatre from 1994 to 2003, Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Stellenbosch[2]. p. 114

Boetman is die bliksem in. Press Release by the Baxter Theatre Centre, 05/17/2001, Artslink.co.za News[3]


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