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MICHAEL PICARDIE (1936 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Michael Picardie was born in 1936 and brought up in Johannesburg . He now lives in Wales and works as an actor and theatre writer. He worked as an academic and social worker in London , Oxford , Cardiff , Johannesburg and Botswana . His solo-performances of his play Shaloma (2003/4) were presented in Cardiff , Leeds, Nottingham and London . His psycho-drama Shades of Brown Jannie Veldsman and His Struggle with the Boer was done in Cardiff (1978), Johannesburg (1978) London (1979), New York (1980), Cincinnati (1981), Scandinavia (1982), Cambridge (1982) and Exeter (1987), and elsewhere in Europe and Africa . The Cape Orchard (Foco Novo Theatre Co.) toured England and Wales and opened in London at the Young Vic in 1988 and was seen as theatre writing anticipating the new South Africa, as was Jo'burg Messiah (Cardiff Sherman Theatre Company 1980.) These texts including a new play The Zulu and the Zeide (2003/4) - are available by post (see contact page). You may be able to see the opening page of some of his plays after contact by e-mail if you can receive Microsoft Word.
Plays by Michael Picardie
Ancestors And Diamonds | ||
| 1st Produced: | Exeter | 1987 | ||||
Company: | Northcott Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27795 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Cecil Rhodes and Olive Schreiner meet in Rhodesia on the eve of the hanging of a spirit medium Ambuya Nehanda. Schreiner tries to stop the execution. Rhodes confesses to his servant John Grootboom that morally he is a disgrace to manking. The play looks forward to the transformation of Rhodesia into a new African state, Zimbabwe, which comes about with terrible consequences | |||||
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Cape Orchard, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Plymouth | 1987 | ||||
Company: | Foco Novo Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Pant-Teg Press, St. Mellon'S Road, Llaneyrn, Cardiff Cf39Yg, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27796 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | UK Tour and Young Vic | |||||
Synopsis: | A KhoiSan person, a bushman, defends a white liberal from black nationalists and fascists who want to destroy her. They are in love and live for the future of a new Africa which does in fact come about. | |||||
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Jo'burg Messiah | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1980 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27797 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A play with folk and liberation songs recounting the history of a man hanged for a political murder in Pretoria Central Prison | |||||
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Return Of Ezekiel Zulu, The and Her Mandels | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27798 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Double Bill Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two interior dialogues about police repression and revolution in South Africa | |||||
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Shades of Brown Jannie Veldsman and His Struggle with the Boer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cardiff | 1978 | ||||
Company: | Kings Head Theatre, Islington, London N.1. | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ad. Donker, Market Plays, Johannesburg, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27800 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Psycho Drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A black psychotherapist cures a white policeman of racism during the role-play of which the history of the Black and white groups in Africa are enacted. The one dies and the other lives forever as a transcendental hero. | |||||
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Shaloma And Ismail | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #40131 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Shaloma: My Palestine Your Israel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leeds | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Red Star Of David/Protean Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27801 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A German officer has saved a Jewish woman from the massacre in Belarus of which he is actually in charge. He kills the Nazi militia which have conducted the murder of 1000 Jews, Tatars, homosexuals and the handicapped. He deserts with her to the Novabocki forest and they live there from 1941-1944. He refuses to go to Palestine with her where he and his parents have seen the alienation of Arab land by Zionist colonists in the 1930's. They remain in love. | |||||
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Springbok | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27802 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A South African rugby international, now a prison warder tells his story on the fields of his old school to his favourite prisoner, who weeds the grass, and to a crazy Jewish grandmother who takes sides between them. | |||||
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Whitemen | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford Playhouse | 1961 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27803 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | About the conflict between a white farmer, his illegitimate coloured son, the daughter and a black servant | |||||
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Zulu And The Zeide, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #40130 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Notes: | inspired by the short story of Dan Jacobson | |||||
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