We Shall Sing for the Fatherland - Revision history

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 : Presented at the [[Funda Centre]] and at the [[Donaldson Orlando Community Centre]] ([[DOCC]]) by the Mafeking experimental theatre group, directed by [[Walter Chakela]].
-: Performed at the [[Soweto Theatre]] from 17 September.
+: Performed in the [[Gibson Kente Auditorium]] at the [[Soweto Theatre]] from 17 September to 1 October. Directed by Luthando [[Mngomezulu]], with [[Warren Masemola]], [[Mathews Rantsoma]] and [[Katlego Letsholonyane]].
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	[[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 Unpublished PhD thesis.		[[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 Unpublished PhD thesis.
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		+	https://www.actorspaces.co.za/we-shall-sing-for-the-fatherland-by-prof-zakes-mda-makes-its-premier-at-the-soweto-theatre/
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	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	1989: Presented at the [[Funda Centre]] and at the [[Donaldson Orlando Community Centre]] ([[DOCC]]) by the Mafeking experimental theatre group, directed by [[Walter Chakela]].		1989: Presented at the [[Funda Centre]] and at the [[Donaldson Orlando Community Centre]] ([[DOCC]]) by the Mafeking experimental theatre group, directed by [[Walter Chakela]].
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		+	2023: Performed at the [[Soweto Theatre]] from 17 September.

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-A superb short allegorical play dealing with the results of the anti-colonial wars on the society and the veterans of those wars in Africa, utilizing the story of two veterans of the “wars of freedom” who live in a city park and survive by scavenging. Written in 1973.
+A superb short allegorical play dealing with the results of the anti-colonial wars on the society and the veterans of those wars in Africa, utilizing the story of two veterans of the “wars of freedom” who live in a city park and survive by scavenging. Written in the late 1960s, it was first performed by the [[Federated Union of Black Artists]] ([[FUBA]]) in association with the [[Amstel Playwright of the Year Award]].
 First published in [[S'Ketsh]] 1979, later in the collection ''[[We Shall Sing for the Fatherland and Other Plays]]'', [[Ravan Press]], 1980. Also published in ''[[The Plays of Zakes Mda]]'' by [[Ravan Press]], 1990. This edition was for a while banned in South Africa. Also found in a number of later collections.

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	[[Zakes Mda]]. 1980. ''[[We Shall Sing for the Fatherland and Other Plays]]'', Johannesburg: [[Ravan Press]].		[[Zakes Mda]]. 1980. ''[[We Shall Sing for the Fatherland and Other Plays]]'', Johannesburg: [[Ravan Press]].
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		+	Photocopy of the published text found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

	[[Andrew Horn]] (Ed.). 1990. ''[[The Plays of Zakes Mda]]''. Johannesburg: [[Ravan Press]].		[[Andrew Horn]] (Ed.). 1990. ''[[The Plays of Zakes Mda]]''. Johannesburg: [[Ravan Press]].

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 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/fools-bells-and-the-habit-of-eating/introduction/86A301C7E7BBFFFA51D0E781AD652F99
-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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 : Next performed at the [[People's Space]] (Cape Town), this time as a double bill with ''[[Dark Voices Ring]]'' and directed by [[Rob Amato]] and [[Nomhle Nkonyeni]].
-: Presented at the [[Funda Centre]] and at the [[DOCC]] by the Mafeking experimental theatre group, directed by [[Walter Chakela]].
+: Presented at the [[Funda Centre]] and at the  Donaldson Orlando Community Centre ([[DOCC]]) by the Mafeking experimental theatre group, directed by [[Walter Chakela]].
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	1979: Next performed at the [[People's Space]] (Cape Town), this time as a double bill with ''[[Dark Voices Ring]]'' and directed by [[Rob Amato]] and [[Nomhle Nkonyeni]].		1979: Next performed at the [[People's Space]] (Cape Town), this time as a double bill with ''[[Dark Voices Ring]]'' and directed by [[Rob Amato]] and [[Nomhle Nkonyeni]].
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		+	1989: Presented at the [[Funda Centre]] by the Mafeking experimental theatre group, directed by [[Walter Chakela]].

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