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  • == South African productions == ...Pinter (1930-2008). A chilling study of power and powerlessness. Best New play of the Year in England, 1984 which premiered at Lyric Studio, Hammersmith,
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  • [[Road Six Productions]]/[[Cinga Productions]] Their production ''[[Bay of Plenty]]'' was based on a true story and is a play about five friends set against a backdrop of gang warfare, drugs, violence
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  • ...for men and "manly pursuits" such as rugby. The play was produced by [[GZ Productions]] and [[LieSl Marx Produksies]], directed by [[Louis van Niekerk]], with [[
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  • ''[[Slagoffers]]'' ("Victims") is an [[Afrikaans]] play in four acts by [[J.C.B. van Niekerk]] (1886-**). == South African productions ==
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  • ...atre company founded by [[Gibson Kente]] after the enormous success of his play Sikalo, which had been performed under the auspices of Union Artists in 19 See also [[GK Productions]],[[Gibson Kente]]
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  • == The original play == A one-act play, written and produced in 1936, it was one of ten short plays known collecti
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  • ''[[Wunder um Verdun]]'' ("Miracle at Verdun"), is a German play by Hans von Chlumberg (1897 - 1930)[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Chlu A pacifist play about World War 1, it was first performed in Leipzig in October, 1930.
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  • ''[[The Inner Circle]]'' is a play by Patricia M. Loughrey ()[https://patricialoughrey.weebly.com/]. ...r three million teens in over 550 productions worldwide by 2019, including productions in Australia, Canada, Holland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, the U.K.
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  • ..., and a supposedly “ideal” future.[https://dmoddylabs.medium.com/bulgakovs-play-bliss-c296effc3306] Bulgakov creates in Bliss an everyman’s story of the ...le appearing in contemporary Moscow, became the basis for another Bulgakov play, Ivan Vasilievich (1936), which later became the very successful and popula
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  • A comedy written by John Fletcher, The play was possibly first produced and published in 1621. Then == Productions in South Africa ==
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  • ''[[The Guardsman]]'' is an English translation of ''[[Testőr]]'', a play by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feren ==South African productions ==
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  • ''[[Edgware Road Blues]]'' is a play by Leonard Kingston (1930- 2014)[]. ...aying the lead and it won the Charles Henry Foyle award for the best first play of 1964.
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  • ...e lecturer and former head of [[CAPAB]] drama, [[Johan Esterhuizen]], the play was originally called ''[[Welcome to the Monkey House...]]''. ...hristopher Sergel adapted the Kurt Vonnegut's collection of stories into a play, also called ''[[Welcome to the Monkey House]]''.)
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  • ...s and change. In 1997 she produced ''[[The Story I am about to Tell]]'', a play about survivors and families of human rights abuses.
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  • ...playwright and director [[Gibson Kente]] after the enormous success of his play ''[[Sikalo]]'', which had been performed under the auspices of [[Union Arti See also [[Gibson Kente Productions]], [[Gibson Kente]]
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  • ''[[Golden Boy]]'' is a play by [[Clifford Odets]] (1906-1963)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Od A play about a boxer, it was first produced by The Group Theatre in 1937 and made
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  • ...[[Kobus Moolman]]. It won the [[PANSA]] Award for New Writing (2004). The play deals with white South African right-wingers in 1994. ...ector), [[Hannes Brummer]] (Boetie) (replaced by [[Cobus Venter]] in later productions). Also in the [[Market Theatre]] production staged in [[The Laager]] in 230
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  • [[Opdrag Productions]] is a theatre production company. Also found as [[OPDRAG Productions]]
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  • ...'n Ster Gesien!]]'' ("We have seen a star!") is an [[Afrikaans]] one-act play by [[Gerhard J. Beukes]] (1913 - 1998). A nativity play dedicated to "Gerdus and Johan".
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  • A Play in Three Acts by Gordon Sherry. A murder mystery. == South African productions ==
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  • ''[[The Flashing Stream]]'' is a play by English-born playwright and novelist Charles Morgan (1894-1958)[https:// A play about mental absolutism. First produced in England in 1938 and published by
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  • (Afrikaans: '''Bellville Suid Gemeenskapssaal'''.) ** Used for play productions by groups such as the [[Cape Flats Players]] (e.g. ''[[Dié Kant, Daai Kant
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  • ...on? Wrote a play called ''Party Games'' (produced 1981 by Company of Three Productions)].
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  • by [[Pulane Productions]] (2006). A project which took the form of a play which fuses various performing arts disciplines including dance, music, sin
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  • ...teur theatre productions were introduced in 1971, with one award, for Best Play. Since then several categories have been added.
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  • An archaic term used to refer to theatre productions and performances, especially of an amateur nature. Also used to refer to pe Occasionally found as (part of) the name of a play, evening's entertainment or a company.
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  • ..."an anatomical comedy". In 1992 it won two [[IGI Life Vita Awards]], for Play of the Year and for Best Script, and also the [[Dawie Malan Award]] for Bes Staged by [[Mouthpeace Productions]] in 1992 at the [[Grahamstown Festival]], directed by [[Janet Buckland]],
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  • ...stage role of Peter Standish, winning him an Academy Award nomination. The play was also produced for a 1959 BBC television production and the 1951 film '' == South African productions ==
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  • ==Productions== ...on Project]] run by [[Twist Theatre Development Projects]] in 2010. Other productions include ''[[Guilty or Not Guilty]]'' (2017)
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  • A radio play by Scottish actor, director and dramatist Stephen MacDonald [http://en.wik BBC R4 1989 and [[Volute Productions]], 1990
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  • A one-woman play by [[Geraldine Aron]] Perhaps [[Geraldine Aron|Aron's]] most successful play to date, it tells the story of middle-aged Angela, who attempts to find a n
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  • A musical play about the discovery of gold at Barberton. ==Productions==
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  • ''[[Sunday Morning]]'' is one man play by [[ Nick Warren]]. Commissioned by the Goethe Institute in Johannesburg, the play was originally called ''[[Roadkill]]'', the title later changed to ''[[Sund
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  • A play by American playwrights Vera Caspary and George Sklar. == South African productions ==
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  • The play's name sometimes occurs as ''[[Zaire]]''. ...e Théâtre de la rue des Fossés Saint-Germain in Paris. Considered his best play, often performed, it owes something to ''[[Othello]]'' in its plot.
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  • ''[[Kristalvlakte]]'' ("Crystal flat" or "crystal plain") is a play by [[Amy Jephta]]. It is a radical South African adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play ''[[Mother Courage and her Children]]'' and is set on the Cape Flats. (For
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  • ...se of the Frightened Lady'' (alternative title ''Criminal at Large'') is a play written in 1933 by English writer Edgar Wallace [https://en.wikipedia.org/w In 1940 a film based on the play was produced by Pennant Picture Productions and presented by British Lion Film Corporation.
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  • ''[[Tobias and the Angel]]'' is a play by Scottish playwright James Bridie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Br The play was written in 1930 and based on Bridie's experiences while he was in the m
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  • ...productions, including ''[[Vrydag]]'' (a localised version of a Hungarian play) in 1929, *
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  • ''[[Tom Ruiters]]'' is a verbatim play by [[Darryl Nel]] (1972-). The play is an account of the racially-motivated killing of a vagrant named [[Tom Ru
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  • ''[[Another Child]]'' is a play [[Sizwe Zakhe]]. The play deals with the controversial issue of homosexuality, and particuiarly lesbi 2001: The play was performed at the [[Market Theatre]] as part of the [[Barney Simon Young
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  • ...loating%20Beacon%2C%20or%20The%20Norwegian%20Wreckers&f=false]. Fitzball's play first performed in the Surrey Theatre, London, on 19 April 1824 and publish ==South African productions ==
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  • ''[[The Rhythm of Violence]]'' is a play by [[Lewis Nkosi]]. An emotional but basically unperformable political play about a group of militant black students who plan to blow up the [[Johannes
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  • There are two versions of this South African play, in addition to a number of international film and TV works. == The original play ==
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  • ...entury parlance), is broadly defined as "the first public performance of a play or any other type of entertainment"[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ...itive verb. : to give a first public performance of. (i.e "to premiere the play")
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  • ''[[Ga’mshangani]]'' A play by [[Obed Baloyi]].A play ...Coudyzer]]. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of [[Market Theatre]] productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
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  • ...on led to a decrease in interest. [[Department of Coloured Affairs One-Act Play Festival]]. [IS THIS THE SAME THING???] ( See also [[Department of Coloured Affairs One-Act Play Festival]] and [[National Festival of Coloured Affairs]]
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  • ''[[Play@Risk]]'' is a play by [[Megan Willson]]. Based in part on Michael Kustow's book ''Theatre@risk'', the play is about a radio show which is shut down — a protest against the oppressi
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  • ...Treurspel]]'' ("Adam in Exile, or tragedy of all tragedies"), is [[Dutch]] play by Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679)[https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_v The play has long been a prescribed work for students of [[Dutch]] literature in Sou
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  • ''[[Lillian]]'' is a one-woman play by William Luce (1931-)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Luce]. ...ran on Broadway in 1986 and starred Zoe Caldwell. Published by Dramatists Play Service, 1986.
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