Katrina

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Katrina can refer to a 1937 play and to a 1969 film. They are unrelated.


Katrina, a play by P.W.S. Schumann

by P.W.S. Schumann. ** Written specifically for Volksteater and performed from manuscript on 9 and 10 June, 1937, with Anna Neethling-Pohl in the lead, directed by Hélène Güldenpfennig. Repeated by them in Krugersdorp on 18 August 1937. *

Produced in 1939 and in 1942 by ADK.

Aletta Gericke's first role on the stage was as Tant Alie in Katrina directed by Truida Pohl. The role of her son was played by Charl Engelbrecht, whom she later married.

Sources

Helikon, 2(10):66.

Katrina, a film by Emil Nofal and Jans Rautenbach

The name of the challenging 1969 film by Emil Nofal and Jans Rautenbach, based on Basil Warner's controversial 1959 play Try for White.


Sources

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712192/bio


See also Try for White.

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