Treetops
- Full Length Play, Drama, 1950s
- 4M, 4F
- ISBN: 9781854594730
A play based on the author's own rebellious boyhood in South Africa.
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: 1950s
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre
- Accolades:
- Winner! George Devine Award (1978)
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
Set in Cape Town in 1952, Nicholas Wright's debut play Treetops is about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation, based on the author's own rebellious boyhood in his native South Africa.
Treetops was first staged at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1978, winning the George Devine Award for playwriting.
REVIEWS:
"Mr Wright's characters emerge as real people: faulty, sympathetic and funny."
The Times
Premiere Production:
Riverside Studios, London, 1978.
Characters
- Casting: 4M, 4F
