Die Laaste Aand

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("The Last Evening")

There are three plays by this name in Afrikaans.


1 Die Laaste Aand by Coen Bezuidenhout

One-act play.

2 Die Laaste Aand by C. Louis Leipoldt

Based on his own poem called Van Noodt se laaste aand [“Van Noodt’s Last Night”], reworked for the stage in 1930 at the behest of Stephanie Fauré. Set in front of the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, and 30 years after the events narrated, it tells of the relationship between the despotic governor Van Noodt and his cast-off Malay lover Martha. First produced by Faure with **. Produced again in 1941 by K.A.T. in Cape Town (with Leonie Pienaar and Herman Steytler, directed by Anna Viljoen) and Volksteater in Pretoria (with Anna Neethling-Pohl) Published by Nasionale Pers in 1930. Published by Nasboek.

Pieter Fourie, as head of Afrikaans Drama at CAPAB, introduced lunch-time shows in the Hofmeyr Theatre, the first being Die Laaste Aand which opened on 4 July 1967.

A musical adaptation was performed at the 2002 KKNK, directed by Hennie van Greunen, with Pedro Kruger, Natalia de Rocha and André-Jacques van der Merwe.

C. Louis Leipoldt was awarded the Hertzog Prize for Drama for Die Heks and Die Laaste Aand in 1944.

Sources

Grütter, Wilhelm, CAPAB 25 Years, 1987. Unpublished research. p 66

Die Burger, 31 January 2002

Die Laaste Aand by J.R.L. van Bruggen

Also written: Die laaste aand

A one act documentary drama by J.R.L. van Bruggen. Part of a collection of Afrikaans one-act documentary plays by Van Bruggen entitled Bakens: Gedramatiseerde mylpale uit die Groot Trek, aimed at commemorating the Great Trek of 1839. (Published in Johannesburg in 1938/9 by A.P.B., some of the plays performed in 1938)

Sources

Marisa Keuris 2013. LitNet Akademies 10(3)

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