Buurtwag

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Buurtwag ("Neighbourhood Watch") can refer to a stage play (2011) or to a TV series (2015).

Buurtwag - 'n Sepie by Chris Vorster (2011)

Also referred to simply as Buurtwag.

Original text

A comedy based on the TV soap format, about the prejudice driven squabbles that arise when two locals, an Afrikaner and a flirt, found a local neighbourhood made up of a mixed bag of South African, including an Englishman, a gay man, a teenager and a "coloured" home-owner.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2011: Produced by GZ Productions at by Aardklop festival, Potchefstroom, it opened on 4 October, directed by Chris Vorster, with Hannes Muller, Hannes Brümmer, Karen Wessels, Jody Abrahams and Christel van den Bergh.

Die Buurtwag the short film (2012)

Die Buurtwag ("The Neighbourhood Watch") is a short film comedy about a new householder who joins an outlandish group, run by a militaristic self-proclaimed leader and consisting of a ramshackle bunch of guys trying to escape the boredom of their suburban lives.

Buurtwag the TV series (2015–2016)

The original text

A comedy about a motley collection of individuals in a modern South African suburb coming together to form an a-typical neighborhood watch.

Written and directed by Beer Adriaanse, with

Sources

CV Chris Vorster[[1]]

"Buurtwag" in Roekeloos 04/09/2011[2]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10117556/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_10

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6591720/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

Beeld, 26 September 2011.

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