Over the Hill

by Paul Slabolepszy. A short play about rugby players, set in the dressing rooms. Quintessentially South African, it is a comedy with a strong element of pathos in its sympathetic view of ordinary people facing mini-crises in their lives. One part of a two-hander, of which Under the Oaks is the first part. First performed at the close of the 1985 Grahamstown Festival as a double-bill with Under the Oaks starring Jonathan Rands. James Borthwick and Kate Edwards, before moving to the Market Theatre. PACOFS, 1987, (as part of a Double-bill with Under the Oaks), directed by Gerben Kamper with Blaise Koch, Annemarie Rauh, André-Jacques van der Merwe.

Published in Mooi Street and Other Moves by Witwatersrand University Press (1994).?*(See Gosher, 1988) One-act. Cast: mixed. Published in Mooi Street and other Moves and South Africa Plays. The latter published by Nick Hern Books.

Sources

National Arts Festival programme, 1985.

PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988.

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