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[Van Heerden (2008)][http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.sun.ac.za%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10019.1%2F1443%2Fvanheerden_theatre_2008.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1&ei=_egBU77CNYWJhQeE5oCADQ&usg=AFQjCNEWnD1BzeLnFmOV2tvyGLoMyNeT6Q&bvm=bv.61535280,d.Yms]. p. 130.
 
[Van Heerden (2008)][http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.sun.ac.za%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10019.1%2F1443%2Fvanheerden_theatre_2008.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1&ei=_egBU77CNYWJhQeE5oCADQ&usg=AFQjCNEWnD1BzeLnFmOV2tvyGLoMyNeT6Q&bvm=bv.61535280,d.Yms]. p. 130.
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Revision as of 09:21, 3 March 2014

One-woman play inspired by and based upon the letters and journals of Emily Hobhouse to Mrs Rachel Steyn, script by Deon Opperman, Garth Holmes and Wilna Snyman (1999).

Subject

During the Second Boer War (1899-1902) Emily Hobhouse wrote a series of letters to her close friend and soul mate Mrs Rachel Isabella Steyn, wife of the State President of the Orange Free State, M.T. Steyn. Her focus was on the suffering of the Afrikaner women and children incarcerated in the British concentration camps during the war.

Performance history in South Africa

Premièred in Die Teaterhuisie in May 1999 (centenary year of the start of the South African War (or also called the Second Boer War, 1899-1902), Directed by Deon Opperman with Wilna Snyman. The same production played in The Baxter Theatre Concert Hall in May 1999, the Windybrow in October 1999 and at the KKNK of 1999. It was staged, with Wilna Snyman a number of times after the 1999 première.

In 2014 ItsTaboo Productions produced it at Seabrooke's Theatre, DHS, St Thomas Road, Musgrave, Durban. Directed by Thomie Holtzhausen, with Alison Cassels as Emily Hobhouse.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

KKNK Festival programme, 1999.

[Van Heerden (2008)][1]. p. 130.

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