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Deon Opperman (1962-) is a prolific and influential playwright, director, actor and entrepreneur.

Deon Opperman was born in 1962 in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape and raised in East London. He matriculated from Selborne College in 1979.

Co-founder and Editor for many years of the South African Theatre Journal, he has also been a member of the editorial boards of the journals Critical Arts.

Donkerland is an Afrikaans-language period drama television series created by Deon Opperman.

Deon Opperman (15 Maart , Uitenhage-) is 'n Suid-Afrikaanse akteur en dramaturg, wat naas verskeie ander toekennings twee keer die Hertzogprys vir sy.

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Môre is 'n Lang Dag (“Tomorrow is a Long Day”) is a play by Deon Opperman ().

After serving two years’ national service (1980 & 1981), he enrolled at Rhodes University for a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Speech and Drama (Acting) and English, with a second in Afrikaans-Nederlands

While still an undergraduate at Rhodes he wrote his first two Afrikaans plays, Môre is ‘n Lang Dag, with which he made a dramatic appearance on the theatrical scene at the very first ATKV Kampustoneel playwriting festival in Pretoria in 1983.

There his ready participation in debates and his frank dismissal of the work of some established writers (e.g. Chris Barnard's rather belaboured Bloed, which had opened the weeklong festival) initially seemed to alienate many of the older members of the audience, until the Rhodes U