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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
First performed by [[PACOFS]] in Bloemfontein in 1979 under the direction of [[Sandra Kotzé|Kotzé]] and featuring [[Nomsa Nene]].   
 
First performed by [[PACOFS]] in Bloemfontein in 1979 under the direction of [[Sandra Kotzé|Kotzé]] and featuring [[Nomsa Nene]].   
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Directed by [[Hilary Blecher]] for [[The Company]] at the [[Market Theatre]] 1980.
  
 
[[PACT]] Drama production of Poppie, based on Elsa Joubert's ''Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena'', adapted by [[Sandra Kotzé]] and [[Elsa Joubert]], and produced in 1984, directed by [[Marius Weyers]], with [[Nomsa Nene]] and [[Peter Se-Puma]] in the cast.
 
[[PACT]] Drama production of Poppie, based on Elsa Joubert's ''Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena'', adapted by [[Sandra Kotzé]] and [[Elsa Joubert]], and produced in 1984, directed by [[Marius Weyers]], with [[Nomsa Nene]] and [[Peter Se-Puma]] in the cast.

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[Lit: “The Wandering Years of Poppie Nongena” - Afrikaans] by Elsa Joubert and Sandra Kotzé.


The original text

Poppie : die drama by Elsa Joubert, Sandra Kotzé. Tafelberg, 1984.


Translations and adaptations

A stage adaptation of Joubert’s contentious and award-winning political novel of the same name (published 1978) on the story of Poppie and her wanderings, trials and tribulations as a black woman in Apartheid South Africa by Elsa Joubert and Sandra Kotzé.

An English translation (entitled Poppie Nongena’s Long Journey or simply Poppie) was done by Sandra Kotzé and staged at the Market Theatre and in New York in 1983 by Lucille Gillwald. It toured the United States for two years.

Poppie Nongena, Elsa Joubert, Sandra Kotze (musical play adapted for stage by Sandra Kotzé), Hilary Blecher (dir) off Broadway & Edinburgh Festival, 1983..

Performance history in South Africa

First performed by PACOFS in Bloemfontein in 1979 under the direction of Kotzé and featuring Nomsa Nene.

Directed by Hilary Blecher for The Company at the Market Theatre 1980.

PACT Drama production of Poppie, based on Elsa Joubert's Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena, adapted by Sandra Kotzé and Elsa Joubert, and produced in 1984, directed by Marius Weyers, with Nomsa Nene and Peter Se-Puma in the cast.

The play made Nomsa Nene famous as "Poppie", a role she played in all the initial versions. In the 1979 Lida Meiring also won a Fleur du Cap Best Actress Award in the role in the Cape version.?*

Sources

NELM Collection: Theatre programmes]: 2013. 2. 1.

Coplan, Critical Arts Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 79-81, 1983.


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