Down Adderley Street
A two-hander play by Cape Town playwright Itumeleng Wa-Lehure (1993).
Contents
The original text
Playscript [Typescript] held by NELM Location: [Collection: BAXTER THEATRE]: 2003. 54. 136.
Subject
About poverty of circumstances and richness of spirit in the lives of two of Cape Town's teenage street kids. The reality of life on the streets where children sniff glue, sleep in dustbins and mug the more affluent.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1993: A Community Theatre Project supported by Warner Lambert, Baxter Studio, July 1993 starring Denver Vraagom and Keith Wa-Lehulere, the author's younger brother.
Premièred at the Baxter Theatre (1993) and was staged in The Laager at the Market Theatre in 1995, directed by the playwright with Keith Wa-Lehulere (as Kat) and Phumlani Runei (as Rooi).
Sources
The Argus, 29 June 1993; Baxter Theatre pamphlet, July-August 1993.
Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
The Star, 9 November 1995.
See: [Van Heerden (2008)][1] Go to ESAT Bibliography. p 154.
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