Salomé Dans!

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Salomé Dans! ("Salomé dances!") is an Afrikaans play by Gerhard J. Beukes.

Original text

Published in Pretoria J.L. van Schaik in 1950.

Beukes was awarded the Hertzog Prize for Drama in 1952 for Langs die steiltes, Salome Dans! and As ons twee eers getroud is!.

Performance history in South Africa

1951: K.A.T., Little Theatre,

1952: Produced by [[Volksteater], with Andries Brink as Herod, Adriaan Muller, Hannes Venter, Gwynne Ashton and Petra van der Walt and Leonie Ross alternating as Salome. Decor and installation W.R. Phillip and Andries Beetge, costumes by H.D. Ross, J.E. McKillop and Cecilia Steyn, lighting by George Wiggell.

Sources

Helikon, 1(6), 1952.

Gerhard J. Beukes (1913–1998) by Erika Terblanche, in LitNet 2014-08-21

http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/beukes.html

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