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South African plays adapted into films (6 P) S. South African musicals (8 P) Pages in category "South African plays" The following 23 pages are in this category, out ...
Boesman and Lena is a small-cast play by South African playwright Athol Fugard, set in the Swartkops mudflats outside of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. [1] It features a " Coloured " man and woman walking from one shanty town to another, and explores the effect of apartheid on a few individuals.
Anton Robert Krueger (born 28 September 1971, in Phalaborwa, South Africa) is a South African playwright, poet and academic.His plays have been staged in South Africa, as well as in England, Wales, Australia, the USA, Monaco, Venezuela, Argentina and Chile.
But this is about just that – the play is an allegorical observation of South African society through the eyes of others. Kafka’s Ape presents a conflicting point of view in which traditional boundaries, categories and norms are questioned, in which beauty, harmony and symmetry are usurped by cruelty, dissonance and abnormality.
A Lesson from Aloes is a 1978 play by South African playwright Athol Fugard.It is the story of Piet Bezuidenhout, a red-faced, big-hearted Afrikaner, who is suspected of being an informer; Gladys, his fragile embittered wife, whose tenuous hold on sanity has been broken by a routine police raid during which her diaries were ransacked; and Steve Daniels, a Colored activist just out of jail and ...
The play portrays the tension between three people (two black – one white) trying to make out a living. The play takes place near Port Elizabeth . Daan (a resident in a nearby township where malnutrition and unemployment are rife) is walking to work at an apartheid whites-only resort where he works as a gardener.
uMabatha is a 1970 play written by South African playwright Welcome Msomi. [1] It is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth set in the Zulu Kingdom during the early 19th century, and details how Mabatha overthrows Dangane.
Nigerian plays (2 C, 18 P) S. South African plays (3 C, 23 P) Pages in category "African plays" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.