Thuthula - Heart of the Labyrinth - Revision history

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Johann van Heerden: Created page with "by '''Chris Zithulele Mann''' (1980?), published in the journal ''Shakespeare in Southern Africa'', 2009. == Performance history in South Africa == First staged as a stud..."

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Created page with "by '''Chris Zithulele Mann''' (1980?), published in the journal ''Shakespeare in Southern Africa'', 2009. == Performance history in South Africa == First staged as a stud..."

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by '''[[Chris Zithulele Mann]]''' (1980?), published in the journal ''Shakespeare in Southern Africa'', 2009.

== Performance history in South Africa ==
First staged as a student production in Grahamstown in 1980, directed by [[Janet Buckland]]. On the main stream at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] 2003 as a large-scale production with a professional cast of 27 Xhosa performers, again directed by [[Janet Buckland]].

== Subject ==
Inspired by the poem ''Thuthula'' by JJR Jolobe, well-known Xhosa writer of the 1920s, the play tells the tragic romantic story, set in the early 19th century, of a beautiful young woman, Thuthula, with whom both the acting Xhosa monarch King Ndlambe and his nephew Prince Ngqika fell in love at the same time. When she married them both it divided the Xhosa nation, led to conflict between the two clans and resulted in the bloody Battle of Amalinde in 1818.

==Translations and adaptations==

== Sources ==
[Van Heerden (2008)][http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.sun.ac.za%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10019.1%2F1443%2Fvanheerden_theatre_2008.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1&ei=_egBU77CNYWJhQeE5oCADQ&usg=AFQjCNEWnD1BzeLnFmOV2tvyGLoMyNeT6Q&bvm=bv.61535280,d.Yms]. p 149.

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-First staged as a student production in Grahamstown in 1980, directed by [[Janet Buckland]]. On the main stream at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] 2003 as a large-scale production with a professional cast of 27 Xhosa performers, again directed by [[Janet Buckland]].
+First staged as a student production in Grahamstown in 1980, directed by [[Janet Buckland]].
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-Inspired by the poem ''Thuthula'' by JJR Jolobe, well-known Xhosa writer of the 1920s, the play tells the tragic romantic story, set in the early 19th century, of a beautiful young woman, Thuthula, with whom both the acting Xhosa monarch King Ndlambe and his nephew Prince Ngqika fell in love at the same time. When she married them both it divided the Xhosa nation, led to conflict between the two clans and resulted in the bloody Battle of Amalinde in 1818.
+Inspired by the poem ''Thuthula'' by JJR Jolobe, well-known Xhosa writer of the 1920s, the play tells the tragic romantic true-life story, set in the early 19th century, of a beautiful young woman, Thuthula, with whom both the acting Xhosa monarch King Ndlambe and his nephew Prince Ngqika fell in love at the same time. When she married them both it divided the Xhosa nation, led to conflict between the two clans and resulted in the bloody Battle of Amalinde in 1818.
 ==Translations and adaptations==