Die ander dogter

With Sandra Prinsloo

A 10-year-old girl accidentally discovers the existence of a sister who died two years before she was born. That girl was Annie Ernaux, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022. Suddenly, Annie was no longer an only child, but the substitute for a profound absence that lives on in her parents’ unspoken sorrow. Her sister had to die so that she could live as the ‘replacement’. A delicate piece about guilt, family and loss.

Director Lara Foot
Writer Annie Ernaux
Translation Naòmi Morgan
Adaptation Saartjie Botha
Design Wolf Britz

A Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfeesproduction