Ulwembu - Revision history

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 [[Dylan McGarry]]. 2021. "The South African play that’s tackling the scourge of the street drug whoonga" ''[[The Conversation]]''
 February 21, 2021[https://theconversation.com/the-south-african-play-thats-tackling-the-scourge-of-the-street-drug-whoonga-155391?]
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 ==The original text==
-The idea for the play was initially developed by [[Big Brotherhood]] in 2014 and the play created over the two years (2014-2015)  through collaborative improvisation with playwright [[Neil Coppen]], actress and ethnographer [[Mpume Mtombeni]] and educational sociologist [[Dylan McGarry]],  with mentorship from academics at Durban’s Urban Futures Centre[].
+The idea for the play was initially developed by [[Big Brotherhood]] in 2014 and the play created over the two years (2014-2015)  through collaborative improvisation with playwright [[Neil Coppen]], actress and ethnographer [[Mpume Mtombeni]] and educational sociologist [[Dylan McGarry]],  with mentorship from academics at Durban’s Urban Futures Centre[https://www.dut.ac.za/faculty/engineering/urban_futures/].
 The play tells the story of six people caught in the whoonga web. (The drug whoonga[], also known as nyaope, is a street concoction of B-grade heroin, rat-poison (strychnine) and various other chemical components.) The characters include Bongani, a drug dealer; Portia, a police lieutenant on the front line of the fight against the scourge; her son Sipho; his friend Andile; and Emmanuel, a Mozambique-born shopkeeper.

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-''[[Ulwembu]]'' ("spider web" in isi[[Zulu]]) is a workshopped play by [[Empatheatre]] and [[The Big Brotherhood]], a KwaMashu-based theatre company
+''[[Ulwembu]]'' ("spider web" in isi[[Zulu]]) is a workshopped play by [[Empatheatre]] and [[The Big Brotherhood]].
 ==The original text==
-The play was developed through improvisation by , under the guidance of and Dylan McGarry. The aim was In 2014 we began working in Durban’s KwaMashu, Umlazi and inner city areas. As a team of academics and storytellers, we wanted to see if theatre could unlock more humane and collaborative responses to whoonga.
+The idea for the play was initially developed by [[Big Brotherhood]] in 2014 and the play created over the two years (2014-2015)  through collaborative improvisation with playwright [[Neil Coppen]], actress and ethnographer [[Mpume Mtombeni]] and educational sociologist [[Dylan McGarry]],  with mentorship from academics at Durban’s Urban Futures Centre[].
 The play tells the story of six people caught in the whoonga web. (The drug whoonga[], also known as nyaope, is a street concoction of B-grade heroin, rat-poison (strychnine) and various other chemical components.) The characters include Bongani, a drug dealer; Portia, a police lieutenant on the front line of the fight against the scourge; her son Sipho; his friend Andile; and Emmanuel, a Mozambique-born shopkeeper.
-The published script of ''[[Ulwembu]]'' also contains the production’s research and outcomes and is available from Wits University Press.
+The play text, published in 2018 by [[Wits University Press]], also contains the production’s research and outcomes.
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 ==The original text==
-The play was dev eloped through improvisation under the guidance of and Dylan McGarry
+The play was developed through improvisation by , under the guidance of and Dylan McGarry. The aim was In 2014 we began working in Durban’s KwaMashu, Umlazi and inner city areas. As a team of academics and storytellers, we wanted to see if theatre could unlock more humane and collaborative responses to whoonga.
-The play tells the story of six people caught in the whoonga web. They include Bongani, a drug dealer; Portia, a police lieutenant on the front line of the fight against the scourge; her son Sipho; his friend Andile; and Emmanuel, a Mozambique-born shopkeeper.
+The play tells the story of six people caught in the whoonga web. (The drug whoonga[], also known as nyaope, is a street concoction of B-grade heroin, rat-poison (strychnine) and various other chemical components.) The characters include Bongani, a drug dealer; Portia, a police lieutenant on the front line of the fight against the scourge; her son Sipho; his friend Andile; and Emmanuel, a Mozambique-born shopkeeper.
 The published script of ''[[Ulwembu]]'' also contains the production’s research and outcomes and is available from Wits University Press.

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		+	[[Zenzo Msomi]] as "Sipho" and [[Ngcebo Cele]] as "Andile"

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