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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
Based on Akerman's school days at Michaelhouse, a privileged Natal private school for boys.  
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Based on Akerman's school days at Michaelhouse, a privileged Natal private boarding school for boys.  
  
 
Won a Vita Best Script Award in 1997.
 
Won a Vita Best Script Award in 1997.
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
Première production in the [[Loft Theatre]] at the Durban [[Playhouse]] in June 1996, directed by [[Anthony Akerman]], with [[Nicholas Ashby]], [[Jacqui Logie]], [[Timothy Wells]], [[Ashley Dowds]] and [[Antony Coleman]].  
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1996: Première production in the [[Loft Theatre]] at the Durban [[Playhouse]] in June 1996, directed by [[Anthony Akerman]], with [[Nicholas Ashby]], [[Jacqui Logie]], [[Timothy Wells]], [[Ashley Dowds]] and [[Antony Coleman]].  
  
Presented by [[PACT]] at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] 1997 and subsequently in [[The Civic]] in Johannesburg and the [[State Theatre]] in Pretoria, directed by [[Anthony Akerman]], starring [[Nicholas Ashby]], [[Kathy-Jo Ross]], [[Terence Reis]], [[Ashley Dowds]], [[Antony Coleman]], [[Stephen Gurney]]. Set design by [[Rod Smith]], lighting by [[Michael Maxwell]].
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1997: Presented by [[PACT]] at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] 1997 and subsequently in [[The Civic]] in Johannesburg and the [[State Theatre]] in Pretoria, directed by [[Anthony Akerman]], starring [[Nicholas Ashby]], [[Kathy-Jo Ross]], [[Terence Reis]], [[Ashley Dowds]], [[Antony Coleman]], [[Stephen Gurney]]. Set design by [[Rod Smith]], lighting by [[Michael Maxwell]].
  
Staged at the [[Theatre on the Square]] in October 1998, directed by [[Anthony Akerman]], with [[David Butler]], [[Jennifer Steyn]], [[Steven Raymond]], [[Ashley Dowds]] and [[Antony Coleman]]
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1998: Staged at the [[Theatre on the Square]] in October 1998, directed by [[Anthony Akerman]], with [[David Butler]], [[Jennifer Steyn]], [[Steven Raymond]], [[Ashley Dowds]] and [[Antony Coleman]]
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
 
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''Vrydag - Kwana'', 21 June 1996.
  
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

Latest revision as of 15:15, 12 September 2019

A play by Anthony Akerman (1996). Full-length. Cast: mixed. Published in Dark Outsider: Three Plays by Wits University Press in 2000.

The original text

Based on Akerman's school days at Michaelhouse, a privileged Natal private boarding school for boys.

Won a Vita Best Script Award in 1997.

Business Day wrote of it: "You are unlikely to see anything as good on any other stage in the country".

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1996: Première production in the Loft Theatre at the Durban Playhouse in June 1996, directed by Anthony Akerman, with Nicholas Ashby, Jacqui Logie, Timothy Wells, Ashley Dowds and Antony Coleman.

1997: Presented by PACT at the Grahamstown Festival 1997 and subsequently in The Civic in Johannesburg and the State Theatre in Pretoria, directed by Anthony Akerman, starring Nicholas Ashby, Kathy-Jo Ross, Terence Reis, Ashley Dowds, Antony Coleman, Stephen Gurney. Set design by Rod Smith, lighting by Michael Maxwell.

1998: Staged at the Theatre on the Square in October 1998, directed by Anthony Akerman, with David Butler, Jennifer Steyn, Steven Raymond, Ashley Dowds and Antony Coleman

Sources

Vrydag - Kwana, 21 June 1996.

Go to ESAT Bibliography

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