The Township Plays
£13.99
No-Good Friday; Nongogo; The Coat; Sizwe Bansi is Dead; The Island
by Fugard, Athol, Walder, Dennis (Head of English Faculty, Head of English Faculty, Open University) | Plays, playscripts
Published 05/08/1993 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 272 pages
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Description
The five plays collected here offer a unique insight into the role of theatre in a situation of oppression. They were produced in close collaboration with their original black amateur casts, drawing on their lives and everyday experiences in the townships. They range from the early apprentice work of the brash but vital Sophiatown plays, No-Good Friday and Nongogo, to the freer, more urgent, and profound New Brighton plays, including the most famous Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island, and the previously unavailable The Coat.
