Opdrifsels

Opdrifsels (“Flotsam” - Afrikaans) is a one-act play by H.A. Fagan about a collection of “flotsam” gathered in the lounge of a rural hotel. Possibly Fagan’s best one-act play, it inspired Reza de Wet’s 199* play Drif.

The original text

Published in 1947 in one volume with the full-length play Die Nuwe Wêreld (“The New World”). Published in Vyfling by Nasboek and in Die Nuwe Wêreld en ander Toneelstukke by Naspers.

Performance history in South Africa

First performed by K.A.T., directed by Queenie Fagan in September 1946.

Sources

Nel, F.J. 1972, p. 152.

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