Mis

See Nebbia by Lugi Candoni in Plays 2.

by Reza de Wet. The title has a variety of meanings in Afrikaans (e.g. "dung", "off-target", "fog" and "holy mass"), all of which feature symbolically in this magical-realist play about a young daughter's escape from her disfunctional rural Afrikaans family. First performed by CAPAB in 1993, with Mary Dreyer, ***, André Roothman, and **, directed by Marthinus Basson. Winner Fleur du Cap Award for Best New Indigenous Script 1993. First published by HAUM as part of a trilogy entitled Trits (1993) The collection won De Wet the Hertzog Prize for Drama in 1993 Translated into English and published in Plays one by Reza de Wet, containing Missing (Mis), Miracle (Mirakel) and Crossing (Drif), Oberon Books, 2000.

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