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''[[My Desire]]'' is a play by [[Vusi Shashu]].

== The original text ==

''[[My Desire]]'' is a drama “portraying the painful growing years of an orphaned black teenager.” The character grows up living “in a shanty town and struggling to get a job to sustain himself.” He is exploited in low paying jobs, but ultimately triumphs when he achieves his dream of “becoming a professor.”

==Performance history in South Africa==

Presented at the [[Donaldson Orlando Community Centre]] ([[DOCC]]). In the cast were [[Themba Mabaso]], [[Zwelibanzi Maseko]], [[Elinor Motshweneng]] and Shashu (no surname provided). The play was also performed at the Bona Secondary School, Vista University (Soweto campus), Musi and Immaculata High Schools, at the Pace Community College, Diepkloof Hall, Kopanong Hall, Meadowlands Hall, Entokozweni Community Hall, and at the Soweto College of Education.

== Sources ==

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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 == Sources ==
-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 Unpublished PhD thesis.
+[[Andile Xaba]]. 2021. 'Collective memory and the construction of a historical narrative, analysis and interpretation of selected Soweto-based community plays (1984–1994)'. Unpublished PhD thesis.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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