Friday's Bread on Monday

Friday's Bread on Monday is a play devised by the Serpent Players.

The original text

A collage of serious sketches on life in New Brighton Township (Port Elizabeth, South Africa) created in 1967 by the Serpent Players, it makes use of mime to a large extent. Based a real-life incident, it concerns a group of boys, who trek across town to buy three-day-old bread because Brito’s Bakery sold it at a cheaper price on Monday. Although it deals with deprivation it is not a cry for sympathy.

Performance history in South Africa

1970: Presented on tour by the Serpent Players in a double bill with The Cure, directed by John Kani, inter alia playing in the St Stephen's Church Hall, Port Elizabeth.

Sources

S'ketsh', July 1972, 17.

Zakes Mda's Introduction to John Kani's Nothing But the Truth. 2002. Witwatersrand University Press.

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