Die Jaar Toe My Ma Begin Sing Het
("The year my mother started singing") A one act stage adaptation of Engemi Ferreira's novel by this name.
Original text
The novel, published in 1988 by Van der Walt Uitgewers (later known as LAPA publishers), was adapted for the stage as a one or two hander independently by two authors in the 1990s.
Adapted as Die Jaar Toe My Ma Begin Sing Het by Wim Vorster
Adapted as Moervrug by Elma Potgieter
The plays are both unpublished, but a copy of the Potgieter version is held by DALRO and credited to Engemi Ferreira and Elma Potgieter.
South African performances
1995: Performed at the first Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK) in 1995 in Wim Vorster's version (as Die Jaar Toe My Ma begin Sing Het) as a one man piece, directed by Gert van Niekerk with Hannes van Wyk.
1998: Performed by Die Bywoners as Moervrug at the Aardklop festival on 24 and 25 September, starring Elma Potgieter, and directed by Schalk Jacobsz.
1999: Performed by Die Bywoners as Moervrug at the Witbank Stadsteater festival of solo-plays on 15 Oktober , starring Elma Potgieter, and directed by Schalk Jacobsz.
1999: Performed as Moervrug at the KKNK festival
Sources
http://152.111.1.88/argief/berigte/beeld/1997/10/10/8/31.html
Die Volksblad 19 August 1998.
Die Burger 12 May 1999.
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