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STEVEN STEAD |
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Plays by Steven Stead |
Crossing | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9168 | |||
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 | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Translated / Adapted By Steven Stead. Play by Reza de Wet | |||||
Synopsis: | It is 1930. In the isolated north of South Africa two sisters, the severe Hermien and hump-backed Sussie, live in a cottage by a fast-flowing river, offering travellers refuge and warning of the dangers of trying to cross the river when it is high. The sisters see it as their duty to retrieve and bury the bodies of those who fail to take their heed, not least because they are haunted by the restless spirit of those who do not find rest in a named grave. So it proves with Esmerelda, the beautiful, unstable assistant of a hypnotist, The Maestro, who drags her unwillingly round the country putting on shows for the rough mining communities of "diggers" who are chasing their own dreams of gold. Twenty years previously, the pair stopped by the cottage ona wild night, ignored Hermien's advice not to cross the river and disappeared into the water. Now Esmerelda's wailing is keeping the sisters awake at night. As the past influences the present, the sister's seance raises the spirits of the dead giving life to the different variations on the themes of love, dependency, hate and the desire to escape creating a world of tremendous power, a world that is both familiar and strange, ordinary and magical and the surface of which is similar to the deceptively calm river under which terrible currents rage. | |||||
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Miracle | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9169 | |||
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 | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Translated / Adapted By Steven Stead. Play by Reza de Wet | |||||
Synopsis: | These plays are folkloric and ostensibly naive pieces of Afrikaner storytelling. They deal with the liberation of a character from an oppressive, matriarchal order and as such are eloquent and haunting expressions of the current generation of Afrikaner seeking to free itself from the manacles of Calvanist tradition. | |||||
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Missing | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9170 | |||
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 | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Translated / Adapted By Steven Stead. Play by Reza de Wet | |||||
Synopsis: | These plays are folkloric and ostensibly naive pieces of Afrikaner storytelling. They deal with the liberation of a character from an oppressive, matriarchal order and as such are eloquent and haunting expressions of the current generation of Afrikaner seeking to free itself from the manacles of Calvanist tradition. | |||||
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