Meisies van Vervloë Jare
Meisies van Vervloë Jare ("Girls of years gone by") is a one-act play by Bartho Smit (1924 - 1986).
Also found as Meisies van Vervloë Dae ("Girls of days gone by") in some sources.
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The original text
A one act play dealing with a number of older people, waiting for a young boy. This was Smit's first play, written during the early 1950s and first performed by the National Theatre Organization in 1959 in a dou8ble-bill with Moeder Hanna.
The text was published in the collection Rooibruin Blare en Ander Eenakters by Afrikaanse Persboekhandel 1968 and in Losgoed ("loose effects, movable property, etc.", a collection of Smit's writings) by Perskor in 1974.
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Performance history in South Africa
1959: First produced as a double bill with Moeder Hanna by National Theatre Organisation in its NTO Kamertoneel, directed by Bartho Smit himself.
Sources
Lantern, 9(2):195. 1959.
J.C. Kannemeyer. 1983. Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse literatuur (Vol. 2)Tafelberg Uitgewers: p429[1]
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