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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
  
The play is a sequal, continuing Veronica Jonkers's journey that started in the earlier play ''[[Valley Song]]'' (1995).
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The play is a sequel to Fugard's ''[[Valley Song]]'' (1995), and continues the story of Veronica Jonkers's journey after the incidents recorded in the earlier play.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:04, 20 May 2021

There are at least two South African plays entitled Coming Home.

Coming Home a musical by Kriben Pillay (1993)

The play

This is an adaptation and renaming by Pillay of the musical Side by Side Masisizane (Pillay, Devar and Caminsky, 1989), which tells the same story but in the context of exiles returning home. It premiered at the Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in 1993 as part of the main festival.

See Side by Side Masisizane


Sources

"UTEL saves historic theatre productions for the archives", Alumni Relations, University of Kwazulu-Natal (October 31, 2018)[1]

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Coming Home a play by Athol Fugard (2009)

Coming Home is a play by Athol Fugard (1932-).

The original text

The play is a sequel to Fugard's Valley Song (1995), and continues the story of Veronica Jonkers's journey after the incidents recorded in the earlier play.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2009: Staged in The Studio at the Baxter Theatre, directed by Ross Devenish, with Bronwyn van Graan (Veronica), Terry Hector (Grandpa), David Isaacs and child actors Devan Walbrugh and Cinga Vanda.

Sources

Die Burger, 19 March 2009

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