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ISBN: 1840021454 ISBN-13: 9781840021455 Publisher: Oberon Books OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: The three plays "Missing, Crossing" and "Miracle" are folkloric and ostensibly native pieces of Afrikaner storytelling. All plays 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 Calvinist manacles of traditional Afrikanerdom. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | African - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Art | Performance |
| Dewey: 822 |
| Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights S |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.14" W x 8.28" (0.50 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Includes the plays Missing, Crossing and Miracle 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. |