Teatergesprekke: Die ander dogter

In these conversations, Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees director and playwright Saartjie Bothaspeaks to theatre makers and artists who created the exciting productions at this year’s festival.

Legendary icon Sandra Prinsloo stars in the adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’sl’Autre Fille, translated from the French by Naomi Morgan. At the age of ten a girl discovers that she had an older sister, now deceased. In a moving letter to her sister, Ernaux reflects on loss, parents and siblings. Prinsloo and Morgan tell us more.