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South African plays by writer (2 C) South African plays adapted into films (6 P) S. South African musicals (8 P) Pages in category "South African plays"
Karoo Moose is a play by the South African playwright Lara Foot Newton. Set in a remote village in the Karoo, the play depicts the trials and tribulations of a young girl called Thozama. In the play, the main character Thozama ends up killing a moose that is inexplicably in the middle of the Karoo, and it shows all the events that follow.
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.
Musicals set in South Africa (10 P) Pages in category "Plays set in South Africa" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 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.
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 relates the story of two working class whites (Vince and Forsie) who arrive at an isolated roadhouse (The Palace) just as it is closing. The black waiter (September) who works there is shortly going on leave to visit his family whom he has not seen for two years because they are forced by apartheid to live in a homeland .
Woza Albert! was turned into a film and is a prime example of Workshop Theatre movement in South Africa and became one of the most produced South African plays within South Africa and internationally. The play is highly praised for its use of humour and ability to illuminate and critique the systematic oppression of black South Africans under ...