Word: dorp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...university started in 1866 as the Stellenbosch Gymnasium, or high school. Today its low-slung buildings, white with red tile roofs, are thickly shaded by ancient oaks and framed by cerise bougainvillea. Even the trees are considered national monuments. When one of the giant oaks along Dorp Street dies, tree surgeons quickly operate and fill it with cement to keep it standing. The whole town testifies to a deep concern with preserving buildings, traditions and ideas...
...very witty as well. Bruhl's snide remarks about producers who ignore his plays and his collaborators in crime keep the play moving. The funniest moments of the night come with visits from the Bruhl's eccentric neighbor who proudly announces on each entrance. "I am Helge Ten Dorp, I am psychic...
Using her powers. Ten Dorp (Jodie Barrett) predicts the play's murders, but her warnings are ignored because she has a slightly imperfect gift. (She predicts the arrival of Anderson's typewriter as a small Black man named Smith Corolla.) Barrett's broad campish delivery relieves the tension of some of the murders. Delivering the play's best exit line, she exclaims. "Ach, my daughter, she is pregnant, after all those years of trying she has finally made me a grandmother. I must go tell...