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== Translations and adaptations ==
 
== Translations and adaptations ==
  
 
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Adapted for TV by the author in 1976 for Thames Television/ITV Play for Britain.
 
 
  
 
== Performances in South Africa ==
 
== Performances in South Africa ==

Revision as of 08:16, 19 December 2015

Hitting Town by Stephen Poliakoff (1952-)[1]]. **

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Adapted for TV by the author in 1976 for Thames Television/ITV Play for Britain.

Performances in South Africa

1979: Staged in The [Rehearsal Room] at The Space (Cape Town) at the beginning of 1979. Directed by Brian Astbury with Carlos da Silva, Caroline Newby, Duarte Sylwain and Leslee Udwin The stage manager was Shauna Johnson.

1979: Staged at the Grahamstown Festival, directed by Andrew Buckland with Tom Holmes, **. The play was subsequently banned by the South African Publications Board.


Sources

Brian Astbury, 1979

E-mail correspondence with Tom Holmes, 19 December 2015.

Derryn Deavin, "Actor for the moment" in The Argus Tonight, May 29 1980: p.7.

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