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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1990: Performed at [[The Warehouse]], Johannesburg by [[Bayete]], [[Mara Louw]] and [[Patrick Shai].  
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1990: Performed at [[The Warehouse]], Johannesburg by [[Bayete]], [[Mara Louw]] and [[Patrick Shai]].
 
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:39, 11 January 2023

Baby, Come Duze is a musical play by Mothobi Mutloatse (1952-) and Corney Mabaso (1934-2009).

The original text

The musical is based on Baby, Come Duze by Can Themba (1924-1968), a story using the new plurilingual "township language" that had arisen in the urban townships in the 1950s.

A version of the story was re-published - with photographs by Gopal S. Naransamy - in Kunapipi, Volume 24 Issue 1, in 2002.

Translations and adaptations

Themba's story was adapted as a stage musical production by Mothobi Mutloatse (1952-) and Corney Mabaso (1934-2009) of Baby, Come Duze in 1990.

Performance history in South Africa

1990: Performed at The Warehouse, Johannesburg by Bayete, Mara Louw and Patrick Shai.

Sources

Can Themba and Gopal S. Naransamy. 2002. Baby, Come Duze. Kunapipi, Volume 24 Issue 1. [1].

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