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''[[And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses]]'' is a play by [[Zakes Mda]] (1948-)
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==The original text==
 
 
 
A play about two very different women who meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty.
 
 
 
First performed during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on 14 August 1988 by Meso Theatre Group. The Woman was played by . The production was directed by [[Teresa Devant]] with [[Tokoloho]] Khutsoane and [[Gertrude Mothibe]] then played at the West Indian Centre, Leeds with the same cast.
 
 
 
Published in 1993 by [[Wits University Press]] in the collection ''[[And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses. Four Works]]'', a volume of plays by [[Zakes Mda]]
 
 
 
 
 
The play was performed in London by Utopia Theatre in 2021, directed by Mojisola Elufowoju, as  part of at Arcola Theatre's ''Today I'm Wiser'' Festival[https://www.arcolatheatre.com/today-im-wiser/].
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
2010: Performed the [[Market Theatre]], directed by [[Princess Mhlongo]] with [[Lesego Motsepe]] (the woman), [[Hlengiwe Lushaba]] (the lady)
 
 
 
2017: Performed on 14 and 15 July at the [[National Theatre of Namibia]], 12 John Meinert Street, Windhoek. Directed by Vickson Hangula with Sepiso Mwange and Odile Gertze.
 
 
 
==Sources==
 
 
 
https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/and-the-girls-in-their-sunday-dresses/
 
 
 
[[Ruphin Coudyzer]]. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of [[Market Theatre]] productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
 
 
 
https://nyupress.org/9781868142224/and-the-girls-in-their-sunday-dresses/
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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