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by [[Paul Slabolepszy]]. A play about ***. First produced in 1994 at the [[National Arts Festival]], directed by [[Lara Foot]]. The cast included [[James Borthwick]], [[Patrick Ndlovu]], [[Val Donald-Bell]], [[Gilda Blacher]], [[Jürgen Hellberg]], [[Lionel Newton]], [[Russel Savadier]]. Set and costumes designed by [[Catherine Henegan]], lighting by [[Richard Barnes]], stage manager [[Jacques de Kock]].  
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full-length comedy by [[Paul Slabolepszy]].
  
First published in ''[[Mooi Street and Other Moves]]'' by [[Witwatersrand University Press]] (199*).?* Full-length comedy.  
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
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Premièred in 1994 at the [[Grahamstown Festival]], directed by [[Lara Foot]]. The cast included [[James Borthwick]], [[Patrick Ndlovu]], [[Val Donald-Bell]], [[Gilda Blacher]], [[Jürgen Hellberg]], [[Lionel Newton]], [[Russel Savadier]]. Set and costumes designed by [[Catherine Henegan]], lighting by [[Richard Barnes]], stage manager [[Jacques de Kock]].  
  
==Sources==
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== Subject ==
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Set at the time of South Africa's first democratic elections. An Italian restaurant that was part of the romantic quasi-Mediterranean scene of old Hillbrow is dying in the new Johannesburg. The characters represent a cross-section of European immigrant South Africans who live in the rapidly changing Hillbrow and who fear that they will have no future in the new South Africa. The black head waiter believes that it is time for the restaurant to take Pasta Alfredo off the menu and to replace it with a dish of pap and chicken feet.
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== Publication ==
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First published in ''[[Mooi Street and Other Moves]]'' by [[Witwatersrand University Press]] (1994) in a collection of six plays written between 1984 and 1993 by Slabolepszy: ''[[Under the Oaks]]'' (1984), ''[[Over the Hill]]'' (1985), ''[[Travelling Shots]]'' (1988), ''[[Smallholding]]'' (1989), ''[[The Return of Elvis Du Pisanie]]'' (1992) and ''[[Mooi Street Moves]]'' (1993).
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==Translations and adaptations==
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== Sources ==
 
National Arts Festival programme, 1994.
 
National Arts Festival programme, 1994.
  
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[Van Heerden (2008)][http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.sun.ac.za%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10019.1%2F1443%2Fvanheerden_theatre_2008.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1&ei=_egBU77CNYWJhQeE5oCADQ&usg=AFQjCNEWnD1BzeLnFmOV2tvyGLoMyNeT6Q&bvm=bv.61535280,d.Yms]. p 153.
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Revision as of 11:13, 12 March 2014

full-length comedy by Paul Slabolepszy.

Performance history in South Africa

Premièred in 1994 at the Grahamstown Festival, directed by Lara Foot. The cast included James Borthwick, Patrick Ndlovu, Val Donald-Bell, Gilda Blacher, Jürgen Hellberg, Lionel Newton, Russel Savadier. Set and costumes designed by Catherine Henegan, lighting by Richard Barnes, stage manager Jacques de Kock.

Subject

Set at the time of South Africa's first democratic elections. An Italian restaurant that was part of the romantic quasi-Mediterranean scene of old Hillbrow is dying in the new Johannesburg. The characters represent a cross-section of European immigrant South Africans who live in the rapidly changing Hillbrow and who fear that they will have no future in the new South Africa. The black head waiter believes that it is time for the restaurant to take Pasta Alfredo off the menu and to replace it with a dish of pap and chicken feet.

Publication

First published in Mooi Street and Other Moves by Witwatersrand University Press (1994) in a collection of six plays written between 1984 and 1993 by Slabolepszy: Under the Oaks (1984), Over the Hill (1985), Travelling Shots (1988), Smallholding (1989), The Return of Elvis Du Pisanie (1992) and Mooi Street Moves (1993).

Translations and adaptations

Sources

National Arts Festival programme, 1994.

[Van Heerden (2008)][1]. p 153.

Go to ESAT Bibliography

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