Name: Doing Plays for a Change: Five Works
SKU: 25687288
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Author: Maponya, Maishe ; Steadman, Ian
ISBN: 9781868142422

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Physical Book

Author

Maishe Maponya

Introduction by

Ian Steadman

Publisher

Wits University Press

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

180

Format

Paperback

ISBN

1868142426

ISBN13

9781868142422

Synopsis "Doing Plays for a Change: Five Works"

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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