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Athol Fugard

ATHOL FUGARD

  (1932 - )
Nationality:    South African
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Buddy Thomas

athol Fugard was born in Middelburg, South Africa in 1932 and grew up in Port Elizabeth, the setting for many of his plays. after spending two years at the University of Cape Town and working as a deck hand, Fugard took up acting and then started to write his own plays. He moved to JohAnnesburg in 1958, where he set up a multi-racial Theatre, for which he wrote, directed and acted. His plays and attacks on apartheid have brought him into conflict with the South African government, and in 1962 he supported an international boycott against the practice of segregation of Theatre audiences. athol Fugard still lives in Port Elizabeth, and also has a home in New York.

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         Blood Knot, The         Boesman And Lena         Captain's Tiger, The         Cell, The         Coat, The         Coming Home         Conversation         Dimetos         Drummer, The         Exits And Entrances         Friday's Bread On Monday         Have You Seen Us?         Hello And Goodbye         Island, The         Klaas And the Devil         Last Bus, The         Lesson From Aloes, A         Master Harold And the Boys         Mille Miglia         My Children! My Africa!         No-Good Friday         Nongogo         Occupation, The         Orestes         Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The         People Are Living there         Place With the Pigs, A         Playland         Ramzy Abul Majd         Road To Mecca, The         Scenes Unseen         Shadow of the Hummingbird, The         Sizwe Banzi Is Dead         Sorrows And Rejoicings         Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act         Train Driver, The         Valley Song         Victory
Blood Knot, The

Blood Knot, The
Racial issues exposed through lives of two coloured south African brothers.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Johannesburg     1961

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Simondium, Cape Town, 1963
Oxford University Press South Africa 1998   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play in 7 scenes

Parts:
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Boesman And Lena

Boesman And Lena
Poor, wandering South African black couple, meet old man revealing the true relationship of their marriage.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Grahamstown     1969

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Buren, Cape Town, 1969   

Music:
-

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two acts Play/Drama

Parts:
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Captain's Tiger, The

Synopsis:
Fugard looks back to 1952 and a year he spent on a cargo steamer when he was 20, working as a general dogsbody, zigzagging to what was then Ceylon.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Published,    

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Cell, The

Synopsis:
unavailable for production

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cape Town     1957

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Coat, The

Synopsis:
five performers on a bare stage invite a 'white' audience to witness them devise a play

Notes:
also published in the Classics,II,3 (1967),50-68, where serpent Players is named As Author

1st Produced:
Port Elizabeth     1967

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Balkema, Cape Town, 1971   

Music:
-

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Genre:
acting exercise

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Coming Home

Synopsis:
Years ago, Veronica Jonkers departed for the big city in the brave New South Africa, set on making her dreams of fame and fortune come true. In COMING HOMe, Veronica returns to Nieu Bethesda several years later to die of AIDS, but she is determined to first secure a future for her child, bright word-loving little Mannetjie. after a rocky beginning, Veronica's childhood playmate and school friend alfred agrees to marry Veronica and take care of Mannetjie, but Mannetjie resents alfred's intrusion into the close relationship he has with his mother. the ghost of old Buks Jonkers, Veronica's beloved grandfather, appears to Veronica and to Mannetjie, teaching them how to appreciate the miracle of life, how it is part of God's Plan and that one has to take the good with the bad and learn to survive. With his elders' guidance, Mannetjie will, in turn, learn that the harsh realities of life can be softened by hope and redemption.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2010   

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
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Conversation

Synopsis:
a man and his daughter attempt to understand each other while out bird-spotting

Notes:
part of "Scenes Unseen" an eight play compendium of unperformed miatures by established writers alonfside new works by younger voices

1st Produced:

Organisations:
New Inck Theatre / Tron Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dimetos

Synopsis:
thoughts regarding the position and responsibility of an intellectual in society relate to priorities, the setting is universal but South Africa is not far from the soul

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh     1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Dimetos and Two early Plays", Oxford University Press, London, 1977   

Music:
-

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Drummer, The

Synopsis:
. the moral conflicts and emotional strug-gles of a young, inexperienced, homosexual soldier who goes aWOL to stop his white friend's marriage, only to discover he doesn't have the "soul" of his people

Notes:
part of the American Project: A compendium of short plays

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Selected Shorter Plays", WitwatersssrandUniversity press, Johannesburg, 1990   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Playlet for improvisation

Parts:
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Exits And Entrances

Synopsis:
the story of a relationship between a young man on the threshold of his career as a playwright and an aging actor who has reached the end of his career on the stage. the play is based directly on Fugard's own early formative experiences in South African theatre and the affect that the legendary afrikaans actor andre Huguenet had on him in shaping his own vision of theatre. It is a play in which the young man's optimism and hope balance the despair and disillusionment of the aging actor. the action takes place in a series of scenes set in various dressing rooms during which the confrontation between two starkly differing realities plays out with humor, pathos and Dramatic power. as the rave reviews of the premiere in Los Angeles reveal, this is a play that is intensely human and speaks to everyone. But, above all else, this is a play that celebrates theatre and its abiding significance. From the two very different perspectives of the young man and the old actor, eXITS aND eNTRaNCeS also reflects the search for a theatre of relevance in an oppressive society.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Richard Jordan, Martin Platt, David elliot, Primary Stages, Dasha epstein, Fountain Theatre In association With assembly

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2005   

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Friday's Bread On Monday

Synopsis:
an impoverished essay on hunger in the townships". the search for food implies a search for dignity.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Port Elizabeth     1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Genre:
Mime

Parts:
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Have You Seen Us?

Have You Seen Us?
Christmas eve. a Diner in a Southern California strip mall. Henry Parsons, a professor and South African transplant comes in for his usual - a turkey sandwich and insulting banter with adela, the Mexican-American waitress. the two creep toward a fragile understanding until Solly and Rachael, an eastern european Jewish couple, sit down to eat. the couple's entrance forces Henry to a reckoning with the demons in his heart and, for a moment, unites four lost souls.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Train Driver and Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group 2012   

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Hello And Goodbye

Synopsis:
Siblings reunion evokes bitter childhood memories and feelings of despair.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Johannesburg     1965

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Balkema, Cape Town, 1966   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Island, The

Synopsis:
two political prisoners in the Robben Island maximum security prison perform lengthy backbreaking mimes

Notes:
written with John Kani And Winston Ntshona, Aka Die Hodoshe Span (Cape Town, 1973)

1st Produced:
Cape Town     1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Statements", Oxford University Press, London, 1974   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play in 4 scenes

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Klaas And the Devil

Synopsis:
unavailable for production

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Cape Town     1956

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Last Bus, The

Synopsis:
unavailable for production

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Port Elizabeth     1969

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Improvisation One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lesson From Aloes, A

Synopsis:
set specifically in 1963 a humane but naive afrikaner chooses to wait out apartheid whilst his anglo-Saxon wife teeters on the brink of insanity and the coloured worker leaves the country on a one way exit ticket

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Johannesburg     1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Oxford University Press, London, 1981   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Master Harold And the Boys

Synopsis:
a young white student moves from childhood innocence to poisonous bigotry.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut     1982

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Knopf, New York, 1982   

Music:
-

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Genre:
autobiographical play

Parts:
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Mille Miglia

Synopsis:
preparations for the great road race featuring the unique partnership between Moss and Jenkinson

Notes:
stage Adaptation by David Muir

1st Produced:
Cape Town     1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Selected Shorter Plays", WitwatersssrandUniversity press, Johannesburg, 1990   

Music:
-

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Genre:
TV play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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My Children! My Africa!

My Children! My Africa!
portrays the debating of values of a humanist education in a context of radical political action

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Johannesburg     1989

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1990   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  children

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No-Good Friday

Synopsis:
Period 1950's dealing with the gang protection racket in Johannesburg townships

Notes:
collaboration with the African Music And Drama Association

1st Produced:
Johannesburg     1958

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Dimetos and Two early Plays", Oxford University Press, London, 1977   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play in 5 scenes

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Nongogo

Synopsis:
a jazz honky-tonk bar in Johannesburg in the 1950s where the sheebeen-queen, now affluent, tries to live down her past as a Nongogo or prostitute

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Johannesburg     1959

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Dimetos and Two early Plays", Oxford University Press, London, 1977   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play in 3 scenes

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Occupation, The

Synopsis:
a sherry-gang of white drop outs squat in a grand mansion

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Unproduced    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in April 'Contrast' 8, pp 57-93, Cape Town, 1964   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Camera script

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Orestes

Synopsis:
represents two sets of triangular relationships: Clytemnestra, Orestes and electra; and the mother and daughter killed by the 60's bomber at Johannesburg station

Notes:
collaboration with Cape Performing Arts Board theatre Laboratory

1st Produced:
Cape Town     1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Theatre One: New South African Drama", Donker, Johannesburg, 1978   

Music:
-

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Genre:
experiment in theatre One act

Parts:
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Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The

Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The
Play inspired by the life of outsider artist, Nukain Mabusa. Aging farm laborer Nukain has spent his life transforming the rocks at Revolver Creek into a vibrant garden of painted flowers. Now, the final unpainted rock, as well as his young companion Bokkie, has forced Nukain to confront his legacy as a painter, a person and a black man in 1980s South Africa. When the landowner's wife arrives with demands about the painting, the profound rifts of a country hurtling toward the end of apartheid are laid bare.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Signature Theatre, NY, USA >>>     11 May 2015

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  1 boy

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People Are Living there

Synopsis:
Jilted landlady organises party for lodgers to prove she can enjoy herself in old age.

Notes:
written in 1963

1st Produced:
Glasgow     1968

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Buren, Cape Town, 1969   

Music:
-

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Genre:
two acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  extra

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Place With the Pigs, A

Synopsis:
provoked by the true story of a 2 World War Soviet army deserter, Pavel Navvrotsky, who spent forty one years hiding in his own pigsty

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Yale Rep Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut     1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1988   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Personal Parable

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Playland

Playland
a metaphor set to the sad and sour music of apartheid as white man requires black man's help to start car

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cape Town     1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1992   

Music:
-

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Genre:
allegory Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ramzy Abul Majd

Synopsis:
Arabic-language drama about a man's attempt to get a work permit

Notes:
adaptation by George Ibrahim

1st Produced:

Organisations:
al-Kasaba, Palestine

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

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Road To Mecca, The

Road To Mecca, The
suggested by the life and work of Helen Martins of New Bethesda who is shunned by the small community as an eccentric

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut     1984

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1985   

Music:
-

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Genre:
play Biographical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Scenes Unseen

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Tron - Glasgow     2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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-

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Shadow of the Hummingbird, The

Shadow of the Hummingbird, The
When Oupa is visited by his ten-year-old grandson (who is playing hooky from school) the two spend a memorable afternoon together. The boy reminds the old man of his lost sense of wonder, while the child is given a bit of hard-earned wisdom. In a charming meditation on the beauty and transience of the world around us, Fugard continues to mine the depths of the human spirit with profound empathy and heart.

Notes:
Prelude by Paula Fourie, play by legendary playwright Athol Fugard who returns to the stage for the first time in fifteen years in his newest play.

1st Produced:
Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT     26 Mar 2014

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 60 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  1 boy

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Sizwe Banzi Is Dead

Synopsis:
Neil Bartlett's latest version by no means gives us the whole novel, it goes lickety-split for the essentials: the Manichean struggle between good and evil, the nightmarish meloDrama, the work's inherent theatricality the Guardian

Notes:
written with John Kani And Winston Ntshona

1st Produced:
The Space, Cape Town     1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Plays and Players", London, November, 1973   

Music:
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Sorrows And Rejoicings

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Notes:
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Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act

Synopsis:
a love relationship set amidst the South African law of the day prohibiting mixed-race sex

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Cape Town     1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Statements", Oxford University Press, London, 1974   

Music:
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Train Driver, The

Train Driver, The
Roelf, a train driver, has spent weeks searching for the identities of a mother and child he unintentionally killed with his train. after a fruitless journey through shanty towns, he encounters an old gravedigger named Simon who helps the desperate man unburden his conscience. Based on a true story, the Train Driver is a soulful exploration of guilt, suffering, and the powerful bonds that grow between strangers.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Fugard Theatre, Cape Town     24 Mar 2010

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1st Published:
JUNKeTS PUBLISHeR, 11 Winchester Road, Mowbray, 7700, South Africa (2010) email info.junkets@iAfrica.com | http://playscriptseries.blogspot.com
Samuel French, Inc - New York (2012) >>>   

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Valley Song

Synopsis:
a young girl seeks the courage to embrace the future of south Africa whilst her grandFather confronts the past

Notes:
music by Didi Kriel

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1996   

Music:
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Victory

Synopsis:
Vicky was named to celebrate Nelson Mandela's victorious walk to freedom at the dawn of a new South Africa. Her mother worked happily as Lionel's maid for seventeen years. Vicky played at Lionel's house as a child as if it was her own home and it was Lionel who encouraged her educational aspirations. So when Lionel- widowed and alone - catches two burglars ransacking his house and finds that one of them is Vicky, it is more than his possessions which are destroyed.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bath, Theatre Royal     2007

Organisations:
Peter Hall Company

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2009   

Music:
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