Channel 48
Channel 48 is a play by Solomzi Bisholo.
Contents
The original text
The play is a moving tragic comedy about Steve Biko and Neil Agget. In Bisholo’s play the apartheid era state leader, BJ Vorster, is called to account for the “unexplained deaths” of Biko and Aggett.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1988: Directed by Solomzi Bisholo. Cast : Solomzi Bisholo. Presented at the Funda Centre and Market Theatre.
Sources
Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
Andile Xaba. 2021. 'Collective memory and the construction of a historical narrative, analysis and interpretation of selected Soweto-based community plays (1984–1994)'. Unpublished PhD thesis.
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