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'''''Serjeant Musgrave's Dance''''' is a play by English Marxist playwright John Arden (1930-2012) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arden].
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'''''Serjeant Musgrave's Dance''''' is a 1959 play by English Marxist playwright John Arden (1930-2012) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arden] in which four army deserters arrive in a northern mining town to exact retribution for an act of colonial violence.
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
1963: Presented by the [[University of Cape Town]]'s Speech and Drama Department at the [[Little Theatre]] from 15 to 25 June, directed by [[Rosalie van der Gucht]], starring [[Percy Sieff]].
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1963: Presented by the [[University of Cape Town]]'s Speech and Drama Department at the [[Little Theatre]] from 15 to 25 June, directed by [[Rosalie van der Gucht]], starring [[Percy Sieff]], among others.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
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Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serjeant_Musgrave%27s_Dance].
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[[ESAT Bibliography I|Inskip]], 1972. p.149.
 
[[ESAT Bibliography I|Inskip]], 1972. p.149.
  

Latest revision as of 09:27, 28 August 2017

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance is a 1959 play by English Marxist playwright John Arden (1930-2012) [1] in which four army deserters arrive in a northern mining town to exact retribution for an act of colonial violence.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1963: Presented by the University of Cape Town's Speech and Drama Department at the Little Theatre from 15 to 25 June, directed by Rosalie van der Gucht, starring Percy Sieff, among others.

Sources

Wikipedia [2].

Inskip, 1972. p.149.

NELM catalogue.

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