The Champion
The Champion is a 2014 one-man pay by Khayalethu Anthony.
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Original text
The play takes the audience on a circular journey from a disheveled morning-after littered with signs of violence, back through the protagonist's boyhood and the many abuses and betrayals, both small and large, that eroded his emotional landscape and led him to the precipice on which he teeters. The play dares audiences to make the effort to look beyond our outrage and fatigue over the incessant beating, raping and murdering of women, and consider what drives men to be such beasts.
The play was Best of Zabalaza Winner in 2014.
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Performance history in South Africa
2017: Performed by Khayalethu Anthony, directed by Khayalethu Mofu, at the Cape Town Fringe Festival at the Makukhanye Art Room, Khayelitsha (September) and at the Alexander Bar (6 – 8 October). The play won the Fresh Award for Writing at the 2017 Cape Town Fringe Festival)
Sources
https://thecritter.co.za/?p=2468
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