Cart
Free US shipping over $10
Proud to be B-Corp

de Wet: Plays One Reza de Wet

de Wet: Plays One By Reza de Wet

de Wet: Plays One by Reza de Wet


$10.00
Condition - Very Good
Only 2 left

Summary

Three plays in the first of the collections from one of South Africa's finest playwrights. Translated by Steven Stead.

de Wet: Plays One Summary

de Wet: Plays One by Reza de Wet

The three plays in this volume are hauntingly beautiful pieces with simple fable-like characters who are touched by magical events. A circus has a mysterious significance in Missing (Mis) as a mother and daughter are visited by a blind policeman on the nights it comes to town. In Crossing (Drif) a stormy night brings a hypnotist to the home of two sisters who live by a ford, two women who bury the bodies of fortune-seekers who fail to heed their warnings about the river when it is in flood. Miracle (Mirakel) centres on a theatrical troupe and again exemplifies the author's earthiness, humour and child-like wonder.

de Wet: Plays One Reviews

Reza de Wet is a remarkable phenomenon in the South African theatrical landscape Temple Hauptfleisch, Contemporary Theatre Review

About Reza de Wet

Reza de Wet was a South African playwirght who wrote primarily in Afrikaans. A prolific writer who wrote eleven plays in fourteen years, she won more theatre and literary awards than any other South African playwright, including the prestigious Herzog Prize (1994), the highest honour in Afrikaans literature. In the 1999 annual South Africa Theatre Awards, Three Sisters Two (1997, written originally in Afrikaan as Drie Susters Twee) was named Best Production of the Year and Yelena (1998), Best Play. On the Lake opened at the Rhoddes Theatre as part of the official programme of the Grahamstown South Africa National Arts Festival in 2001. Reza de Wet also worked extensively as an actress and taught in the Drama department at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. She passed away in January 2012.

Additional information

GOR006003161
9781840021455
1840021454
de Wet: Plays One by Reza de Wet
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2000-09-01
176
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - de Wet: Plays One