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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.
South African plays (3 C, 23 P) Pages in category "African plays" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 ...
Also: South Africa: People: By occupation: Theatre people / Writers: Dramatists and playwrights Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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.
The play is a two-man show that contains 26 vignettes. The play imagines the second coming of Jesus Christ during the apartheid-era as experienced by a variety of black South Africans. Written as a piece of protest theatre, Woza Albert! sought to confront the inequalities and oppression of apartheid in South Africa.
Although the play appropriates Jarry's agonist to the context of the TRC, it retains his archaic language and original slang, anachronising him as "a figure who lives within a world of remote forms and meanings". [26] Ubu does not represent any particular figure in South African history; rather, he is "an aspect, a tendency, an excuse". [26]