God’s Forgotten

by Pieter-Dirk Uys. A bilingual play which takes a futuristic look at a nightmare South Africa, providing a dark and perssimistic look at a family of Afrikaner women besieged during a projected civil war. First performed in the Outer The Space (Cape Town) in 1976 directed and designed by Pieter-Dirk Uys, with Christine Basson, Blaise Koch, Lynne Maree, Maralin Vanrenen and Esther van Ryswyk. Lighting by Brian Astbury and stage managent by Richard Morrison and Vincent Ebrahim. Also performed Upstairs at the Market Theatre in 1976. First published in Theatre One (ed Stephen Gray) by Ad Donker, 1981. God’s Forgotten by Pieter-Dirk Uys. A play about what might have happened under apartheid. First produced in 1975 Space Theatre, with Christine Basson, Lynne Maree, Jacqui Delhaye, Esther van Ryswyk, Blaise Koch – Directed by Pieter-Dirk Uys. 1976 Market Theatre, with Christine Basson, Lynne Maree, Michele Maxwell, Wilma Stockenström, Blaise Koch – Directed by Pieter-Dirk Uys. 1979 La Mama NYC: Maggie Soboil, Lizette Lecat, Madeleine le Roux, Christina Avis-Krauss, Joel Rooks – dir: Mavis Taylor. Also published in Paradise is Closing Down and other Plays by Penguin.

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