Die Dieper Reg

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by N.P. Van Wyk Louw. An Afrikaans allegorical play, written for the Centenary of the Great Trek in 1938. Commissioned and first performed by Volksteater in the Pretoria City Hall on 9 September 1938. Brilliantly repeated in conjunction with and the University of Pretoria and again directed by Anna Neethling-Pohl on 12 September 1941 in the same venue. Ludwig Binge (1969) refers to the latter production as the most important production of an original Afrikaans play up to 1950. First published Nasionale Pers Boekhandel 1939. Also published by Tafelberg.


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