Produced by Basil Appollis and Sylvia Vollenhoven, directed by Sandra Temmingh, performed by Basil Appollis. ( Chad Abrahams?)Ģ014: Performed as District 6 Our Buckingham Palace in London as part of South African Season at Jermyn Street Theatre during June and July. Décor design by Clement Robertson, costume design by Penny Simpson and lighting design by Faheem Bardien. Directed by Basil Appollis, with Basil Appolis, Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Denise Newman, Euodia Samson, Ilse Oppelt, Soli Philander, Kevin Smith, Jeroen Kranenburg, June van Merch, Royston Stoffels, André Samuels, Cyril Valentine, David Muller, Charlene Le Roux, Bronwyn van Graan, Theo Vilakazi and Natalie Yon. Design, decor and lighting by Brian Collins, costumes by Ann Sharfman and Linda Pheiffer.Ģ000-2001: Produced by Artscape in the Artscape Theatre on 6-21 April, 2001. ![]() Īdapted for the stage by Basil Appollis and Sylvia Vollenhoven with the title District 6 Our Buckingham Palace(2014).ġ988: First performed by students of Hewat College, Cape Town, September, directed by Colleen Radus and Shaun Viljoen.ġ989: Produced professionally by the Baxter Theatre opening 19 June 1989, with Wayne Bowman, Basil Appollis, Peter Butler, Theresa Cloete, Chico Levy, Denise Newman, Gail Reagon, Cyril Valentine, Peter van Minnen, Joey Wishnia and Vinette Ebrahim, directed by Fred Abrahamse. In 1988 Rive himself agreed to adapt the story as a play for production by Hewat CollegeĪdapted for the stage by Jill Fletcher as Buckingham PalaceĪdapted for Artscape by Basil Appollis and Shaun Viljoen with the title 'Buckingham Palace', District Six (2000-2001)Īdapted for the stage by Ivan Abrahams with the title 'Buckingham Palace', District Six. Rive's original work has been adapted for the stage a number of times over the years. It had begun as a 1984 newspaper story about a child’s Christmas in District Six, then evolved into a semi-autobiographical novel about a group of characters living in a row of houses called “Buckingham Palace” on Caledon Street in District Six, Cape Town. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when. Richard Rive: A Partial Biography (Wits University Press).The novel 'Buckingham Palace', District Six was first published by in 1986. New Africa Books, 1988 - English fiction - 251 pages. He later adapted 'Buckingham Palace', District Six into a play, originally performed by students at Hewat College in 1988, then professionally by the Baxter Theatre in 1989. He adapted his short story Resurrection into an one-act play (first performed 1966), and won the BBC African Theatre Competition of 1972 with another one-act play, Make Like Slaves. While best known for his short stories and novels, he also had an impact in theatre. His contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance Sadly, he was murdered at his home in Cape Town in 1989. He was at various times a visiting professor at several overseas universities, including Harvard.Īs author he wrote a number of short stories, edited anthologies for the Heinemann African Writers Series and wrote three novels, including Emergency (1964) and 'Buckingham Palace', District Six (1986). In 1988 he became the head of the English department at Hewat College of Education. ![]() ![]() in English, completing it in 1962 and followed this with a Masters from Columbia University (1966) and a Doctorate from Oxford (1974). While teaching he also studied for a B.A. Chapman, Michael, Douglas Livingstone - Poet, Kunapipi, 4(2), 1982. He taught at Vasco High School for a short while, then at South Peninsula High School, where he worked for almost two decades, ultimately as head of the English Department and an athletics coach and administrator. But this collection, which (to quote Richard Rive) must appeal to any serious student of South African literature, 2 was almost totally ignored by reviewers in South African literary magazines. After completing High School in 1947, Rive worked for a short time as a clerk in a local business and in 1950 registered at Hewat College of Education to train as an English teacher. Mark’s Primary School and Trafalgar High School. ![]() 2 His contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performanceīorn Richard Moore Rive in District Six, Cape Town in 1930, where he was raised by his mother, Nancy Rive, and was schooled at St.
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