de Wet: Plays Two by Wet, Reza de

de Wet: Plays Two (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781840024807)

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de Wet: Plays Two by Wet, Reza de

de Wet: Plays Two

$26.95
de Wet: Plays Two by Wet, Reza de

de Wet: Plays Two

$26.95
Format: Paperback
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Includes the plays African Gothic, Good Heavens and Breathing In

A farm lies in ruin. And with mother and father now gone, a brother and sister face eviction by an officious lawyer. Abandoned, they endlessly enact the rituals of punishment once visited upon them by their parents. Widely regarded as a milestone in South African theatre, the multi-award winning play African Gothic tells the story of their final 'dance macabre'. Despite overwhelming critical acclaim, it was also fiercely condemned by Afrikaans conservatives as being a subversive portrayal of repression. Good Heavens is a comedy thriller with the dark poetic heart of a folk-tale. Two spinster sisters, with their ailing mother and simple-minded brother, await the annual visit of their youngest sister. Deeply envious of her beauty and youth, they hatch a diabolical plot to rid themselves of her forever. In Breathing In, on a stormy night in the last bitter months of the Second Anglo-Boer War, a seriously wounded General and his faithful Adjutant encounter a mysterious woman and her seductive other-wordly daughter, and are confronted with the subtle methods of survival these women have been forced to adopt. Accustomed to the rigours of war, the corageous Adjutant now faces a terrible choice.

Author: Reza de Wet
ISBN-10: 1840024801
ISBN-13: 9781840024807
Publisher: Oberon Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.32h x 4.78w x 0.50d
By Reza de Wet
By Reza de Wet
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Reza de Wet writes primarily in Afrikaans, and has won more theatre and literary awards than any other South African playwright. Most recently Breathing In won the prestigious Fleur du Cap for Best New Indigenous Text 2005. De Wet's plays have been translated into Dutch, German, French, Czech and Greek. Oberon publishes her plays Missing, Crossing and Miracle ('Plays One'), Three Sisters Two, Yelena and On the Lake ('A Russian Trilogy').

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