Doing Plays for a Change: Five Works - Couverture souple

Maponya, Maishe

 
9781868142422: Doing Plays for a Change: Five Works
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1868142426 ISBN 13 : 9781868142422
Editeur : Wits University Press, 2021

Synopsis

These five plays by one of South Africa's foremost black playwrights were written between 1979 and 1986, a period in the country's history marked by intense repression and escalating violence. Several of Maponya's works fell foul of the censorship system. The works included in this collection - 'The Hungry Earth', 'Dirty Work', 'Gangsters', 'Umongikazi/The Nurse' and 'Jika' - look at topics such as the lives of miners, apartheid in hospitals, and the workings of the security apartheid state and its agents. His plays are multilingual, using agitprop and physical theatre techniques. Maponya won the 1985 Standard Bank Young Artists award. Doing Plays for a Change: Five Works is introduced by Professor Ian Steadman, former Head of the Drama Department of the University of the Witwatersrand, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts.

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À propos des auteurs

Maishe Maponya is a South African playwright, poet, actor, director and activist. He has written and directed numerous plays including The Hungry Earth.



Ian Steadman was Head of the Drama Department of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts.

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Éditeur
Wits University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1868142426
ISBN 13 
9781868142422
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
180
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Personne responsable
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