de Wet: Two Plays : Concealment; Fever: "A Worm in the Bud"

Reza de Wet

ISBN 10: 1840024925 / ISBN 13: 9781840024920

Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jun 2007, 2007

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• Titolo: de Wet: Two Plays : Concealment; Fever: "A Worm in the Bud"
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jun 2007
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1840024925
• ISBN 13: 9781840024920
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 211 L x 176 A x 4 P (millimetri) 211 millimetri di larghezza per 176 millimetri di altezza per 4 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 172 grammi

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Riassunto

Set in England's colonial outposts in South Africa during the 19th Century, both of the plays in this volume feature sisters forced by a deeply conservative, patriarchal society to resist the powerful call of their vivid surroundings and to stifle the demands of their own rich, feminine sexuality.
In Concealment, Amy and her father travel to South Africa to retrieve her recently widowed sister, but are disturbed to find her untouched by grief, unwilling to return and drawn instead to the wild, natural beauty of her moonlit garden. In Fever, Emma corresponds with Katy back in England, who learns the full and terrible extent of her sister's yearning and isolation when she discovers her hidden diary.

L'autore

Reza de Wet is a South African playwirght who writes primarily in Afrikaans. A prolific writer who has written eleven plays in fourteen years, she has 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 has also worked extensively as an actress and teaches in the Drama department at Rhodes University in Grahamstown.