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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 08:40, 6 August 2015
Die Verhoor (“The Trial”) is a 1970 Afrikaans play by André P. Brink. A dramatization of the 1830s rebellion by the Dutch farmers of the Eastern Cape border against British Colonial rule. First published by Human and Rousseau in in 1970.
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Die Verhoor is an Afrikaans translation by Chris Fourie of The Trial, a 1972 one-act play for women by Anthony Booth.
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English by Michael Venables under the title The Road to Slagtersnek.
Performance history in South Africa
1973: First produced by PACT.
1980: Louis van Niekerk as Bezuidenhout directed by Francois Swart.
1986: The Road to Slagtersnek, the English translation by Michael Venables, was staged by PACT Drama at the State Theatre Pretoria, directed by Louis van Niekerk assisted by Ben Kruger. In the cast were Johan Malherbe (Andries Stockenström), Frans Kalp (Secretary), Eric Nobbs (Frederik Bezuidenhout), Bill Curry (Booi), Gert van Niekerk (Jacob Erasmus), Kurt Egelhof (Hans), Pieter Brand (Johannes Londt), Ben Kruger (Flip Opperman), Chris van Niekerk (Kerneels Olivier), Ronel Kriel (Jeanette), Natalia da Rocha (Anna), Albert Raphael (Lord Charles Somerset), James Winkler (Soldier), Speedo Wilson (Soldier. Lighting designer Jacques Mulder.
Sources
PACT theatre programme (The Road to Slagtersnek), 1986.
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