ABSTRACT

First Published in 2004. This volume presents a representative selection from the work of one of the most innovative of the younger generation of South African dramatists, Matsemela Manaka, who productions have been acclaimed not inly in is home country but also tour in Europe and America. Includes are the Egoli, Pula and Children of Asazi, Toro and Goree. Each play has been edited with the particular needs of readers outside South Africa in mind; unfamiliar references have been annotated and African-language passages in the texts provides with English translation. To facilitate a comprehensive view of Manaka's work a number of his essays on the practice of 'theatre for social reconstruction' have been reprinted along with a long introduction by Geoffrey V. Davies.

chapter |31 pages

Introduction

ByGeoffrey V. Davis, John Kani

chapter 1|16 pages

Theatre of the Dispossessed

ByMatsemela Manaka, James Mthoba, Joe Rahube

chapter 2|23 pages

Egoli

ByGeoffrey V. Davis, John Kani

chapter 3|22 pages

Pula

ByGeoffrey V. Davis, John Kani

chapter 4|26 pages

Blues Me

ByMatsemela Manaka

chapter 5|31 pages

Children of Asazi

ByGeoffrey V. Davis, John Kani

chapter 6|19 pages

Toro

The African Dream
ByGeoffrey V. Davis, John Kani

chapter 7|19 pages

Goree

ByGeoffrey V. Davis, John Kani

chapter 8|3 pages

Afterword

ByJohn Kani