AN AUDIENCE WITH MISS HOBHOUSE

[SandyB]

Tony Jackman , an ex Oranjemunder  from my childhood days , now stationed in Cape town and wherever he is called , Journo , foodie with some stunning recipes I have seen , also a closet playwright ,, indeed a busy boy ..
below a copy from the facebook link  to An audience with Miss Hobhouse staging in Cape Town  11 to 16 September .
Any Oranjemunders  in CT  or ex in CT ,  lets  see what  Oranjemund exports create ,,,



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Book for the Cape Town run of An Audience with Miss Hobhouse (Sept 11-16) at www.webtickets.co.za
Description
An Audience with Miss Hobhouse delves into the world of Emily Hobhouse, who devoted a good part of her adult years to bringing the plight of Boer women and children to the attention of her British fellow countrymen. It is a one-act play in which the actor plays both Hobhouse - in her later years - and a Boer woman, Tant Alie, who was a genuine victim of the British actions against the Boers in their concentration camps, and whose memoir Hobhouse translated into English some years after the end of the war. A handful of bit players also come on stage - troops, war correspondents and the like - as Miss Hobhouse, supposedly addressing a West End of London theatre audience in her last years, reflects on her role in the conflict, and her only partially successful efforts to make the British public understand how badly the plan by Lord Roberts and later Lord Kitchener to bring the Boers to heel by incarcerating their women and children had gone awry. This production sees Lynita Crofford in the dual roles, directed by Christopher Weare. The play was first performed at the Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival in Cradock, Eastern Cape, where the premiere performance was greeted with a standing ovation.

EMILY HOBHOUSE

A Cornishwoman from a very well-heeled and politically well-connected family - she knew Lloyd George who was to become a great Liberal Prime Minister of Britain - Emily Hobhouse was born in 1860 as a clergyman's daughter who was never going to be subservient, woman or not. One thwarted love affair tossed her across the Atlantic to Virginia where she lived in a frontier town and nearly married a man who became mayor and then showed feet of clay. Back in England in the late 1890s she found a country heading towards war with the Boers in South Africa, thanks in no small part to the machinations of Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner at the Cape. When she got wind of the treatment of Boer women and children by her fellow countrymen she set about campaigning for an end to the war, and decided to visit the Cape colony to get a firsthand account of events. The number of concentration camps that had been set up by Lord Roberts and later Kitchener shocked her, and she cajoled Milner into allowing her to visit some of the camps. Her investigations led to her informing her own nation of the extent of British cruelty towards the Boers, but the road to informing them was a rocky one. Her efforts on behalf of the Boers dominated much of her later years, although she also played an angel's role in the Great War of 1914-1918. She died in 1926 having had no due recognition from Britain for a role that by rights should have seen her end her life as Dame Emily Hobhouse. This, as the play makes clear, was not to be.

[Michael Alexander]

You forgot food critic.... Ol' Tony is a member of this forum, but does not post.... reckon he could put a good few yarns on here....

[SandyB]

er uhm  thought   foodie  would suffice ..   

[SandyB]

maybe we should try lure him in ??

[Michael Alexander]

Might have to place a Roast leg of gemsbok smothered in some exotic sauce on the forum....

[SandyB]

Would say so ....  but then again he would enjoy a good old fashioned        as well