![]() ![]() ![]() Partly as a tribute but mostly because I believed then, as I still do now, that if we are to continue adapting literature from or about South Africa for the stage, this is the kind of work we need to be investing our time, energy and resources in,” he explains. “I started working on the adaptation shortly after Duiker’s death in 2005. “Adapting Sello’s 456-page novel into a 109-page play script was a labour of love that lasted roughly two years and the outcome of that process is less an adaptation (or translation) than it is a kind of paraphrasing,” says Johaardien. “Johaardien’s adaptation of K Sello Duiker’s novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams invites the audience to witness a contemporary hero’s journey as a young black South African man faces the shadows of his being and emerges as Horus, the mythical son of the sun,” she writes. Theresa Edelmann describes Ashraf Johaardien’s adaptation of K Sello Duiker’s award-winning novel “The Quiet Violence of Dreams” as a triumphal success. ![]() The play is adapted by Ashraf Johaardie, directed by Alby Michaels and designed by Wilhelm Disbergen. ![]()
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