Soweto Ensemble
The Soweto Ensemble was an organisation of African intellectuals who staged plays in Soweto in the late 1960s.
Founded by Corney Mabaso in 1965.
They rehearsed and performed mainly in black areas. Their first production was a rather academic Shaka, based on a book by one X. Gorro (Sam Gorey’s Shaka, 1968). It enjoyed a long and successful run. In January 1966 the ensemble announced plans to perform Anouilh's Antigone and Sartre's In Camera. Later productions included Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and John Mortimer's The Dock Brief.
Sources
Loren Kruger, 1999.
Robert Mshengu Kavanagh. "The Development of Theatre in South Africa up to 1976 - Anti-Apartheid Literature." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg Lawrence J. Trudeau, Vol. 162. Gale Cengage, 2005.
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