A study of dramatic language in a playwright’s oeuvre should, according to Vimala Herman (1995), not only focus on the interactive and interactional uses of dialogue, but should also include a discussion of the wider ...

The changing world of Afrikaans drama translations and adaptations: A few remarks This article highlights a few aspects within the Afrikaans theatre tradition of drama translations and adaptations. A short historical ...

Both Reza de Wet and Janet Suzman recently produced plays that were inspired by two famous plays by Chekhov. Reza de Wet's Drie susters twee (1996) (Three Sisters Two) is a "continuation'/sequal to Chekhov's Three Sisters, ...

NP van Wyk Louw’s Die pluimsaad waai ver, of Bitter begin revisited The historical play Die pluimsaad waai ver, of Bitter begin (“The plume seeds are blown far, or Bitter beginning”) by NP van Wyk Louw was commissioned for ...

Nicola Hanekom’s Land van Skedels had its premiere at the Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival in October 2013 and this production, as well as later ones, received glowing receptions from both theatre audience and ...

Nelson Mandela and seven of his comrades were sentenced to life imprisonment for treason on 12 June 1964 (the final day of the notorious Rivonia trial). The leader for the defence was an Afrikaner, Bram Fischer. In Kalmer's ...

This article is an exploratory study of how Khoisan (so-called 'Hottentot' and 'Boesman') characters, as well as some of the other indigenous peoples of South Africa are portrayed in a few early Dutch-Afrikaans dramas; in ...

The inaccessibility of documents on South African theatre productions poses a considerable problem in both the research and teaching of theatre. The gap that this has created in our literary history may be irreversible ...