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==The original text==
 
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A radio play about a number of factory workers who are on their way home per bus, who try to escape from their mundane in an industrialised environment, by dreaming of alternative possibilities  of money, grand motor cars, holidays in fabulous destinations and so on.  
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A monologue alternating between the past and the present, trancing the life of an old woman who has lost two children to death, and is estranged from her remaining son, who ultimately opens the door to Death, whom she embraces as an intimate friend.  
  
Published in the collcetion ''[[Halte 49 en Twee Monoloë]]'' by [[NB Uitgewers]] in 1962.
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Published in the collection ''[[Halte 49 en Twee Monoloë]]'' by [[NB Uitgewers]] in 1962.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 07:48, 22 May 2023

Die Ou Vrou en die Dood ("the old woman and death") is a monolgue for radio by Henriette Grové (1922–2009).

The original text

A monologue alternating between the past and the present, trancing the life of an old woman who has lost two children to death, and is estranged from her remaining son, who ultimately opens the door to Death, whom she embraces as an intimate friend.

Published in the collection Halte 49 en Twee Monoloë by NB Uitgewers in 1962.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

J.C. Kannemeyer. 1983. Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse Literatuur 2: Cape Town: Tafelberg, p.324[1]

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