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''[[Survival]]'' is a workshopped play by [[Theatre Workshop ’71]]. A strong Black Consciousness play workshopped by the four actors playing four political prisoners who re-enact their politicization and relate what had brought them to this place. 

== The original text ==
Published in [[Robert Kavanagh]] (ed): ''[[South African People’s Plays]]'' by [[Heinemann]] in  1981.

== Performance history ==

1976: First commissioned by and performed in [[The Outer Space]] (Cape Town) in May 1976, directed and facilitated by [[Mshengu]] with [[Fana Kekana]], [[Dan Selaelo Maredi]], [[Themba Ntinga]] and [[Seth Sibanda]].  Design by [[Bee Berman]] and stage management by [[Siphiwe Khumalo]] (credited as [[Steve Khumalo]]). The play then went on tour to the USA and elsewhere. 

1990: In 1990 [[Jerry Mofokeng]] and the original cast revived the play in New York. 

1999: [[Siphiwe Khumalo]] was responsible for the restaging of the play as part of the [[Arts Alive Festival]] in Alexandra and at the Civic Theatre, Johannesburg in 1999.

== Sources ==
[[ESAT Bibliography Ar-Az|Astbury]] 1979.

[[Robert Colman]] in ''[[Mail and Guardian]]'', 17-22 September 1999.


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