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''[[Top Down]]'' by [[Muntu wa Bachaki]] (1950-2020)

==The original text==

A workshopped play about the corruption of school principals, their lackeys and their white superiors in the Bantu Education system in the mid 1970s during the Soweto uprising.
A synopsis published in 1989 in ''[[Maske und Kothurn]]'' 35, 1:81-85. [see Kruger, 1999, p241].

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1988:  Directed by [[Muntu wa Bachaki]]. Cast : [[Jake Mochidi Chika]], [[Thulani Sifeni]].  First performed by [[Bachaki Theatre]] at the [[Funda Centre]] in 1988. Also performed at the Presbyterian Church in Hillbrow, the [[Market Theatre]] in Johannesburg and at a human rights and arts festival in Port Elizabeth during the course of 1991. The play also toured in England and Switzerland in the late 1980s.

==Sources==

[[Ruphin Coudyzer]]. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of [[Market Theatre]] productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)

Xaba, Andile. 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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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