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Copyright © 1996 by Athol Fugard

Valley Song is published by Theatre Communications Group, Inc.,

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Excerpts: Carolyn Slaughter’s Introduction to The Little Karoo by Pauline Smith, copyright © 1990 by Pauline Smith, St. Martin’s Press, New York; Karoo Morning by Guy Butler, copyright © 1977 by Guy Butler, D. Philip, Cape Town; Towards the Mountain by Alan Paton, copyright © 1980 by Alan Paton, Scribner’s Publishing Company, New York; “The Man Born to Farming,” from Farming: A Hand Book by Wendell Berry, copyright © 1970 by Wendell Berry, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York are reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.

Cover: LisaGay Hamilton and Athol Fugard in the 1995—96 McCarter Theatre/ Manhattan Theatre Club production of Valley Song. Photo courtesy of T. Charles Erickson.

Photograph on page ii—iii is reprinted by the kind permission of Satour.

Thanks to Janice Paran of the McCarter Theatre and Susan Hilferty for providing additional material to this edition.

Fugard, Athol.

Valley song / Athol Fugard.

eISBN 9781559361194

I. Grandfathers—South Africa—Drama. 2. Girls—South Africa—Drama.

I. Title.

PR9369.3.F8V35 1996

822—dc20 96–7091

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Cover design by Lisa Govan

Book design by The Typeworks

First Edition, July 1996

Second Printing, September 1998