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Revision as of 15:31, 28 September 2023
Have You Seen Zandile? is a play by Gcina Mhlope, with Maralin Vanrenen and Thembi Mtshali.
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An autobiographical play utilizing Mhlope’s memories, songs and narratives about her rural youth, to explore the aspirations, secrets and sorrows of young rural women.
First published by Methuen in 1988 and by the University of Natal Press, later anthologised in many collections, inter alia in Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays by Skotaville and Routledge and in the collection The Distance Remains and Other Plays, compiled by Robin Malan, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1986: First performed in 1986, Vanrenen directing Mhlope and Mtshali.
Performance history abroad
1987: Presented during the Edinburgh Festival at the Traverse Theatre. The production earned the "Fringe Firsts" award 1987: "award of outstanding new production to Gcina Mhlophe, Thembi Mtshali and Maralin Vanrenen for Have you seen Zandile? presented at the Traverse Theatre".
Sources
Framed award certificate held by NELM Location: Framed items [Collection: MANIM, Mannie]: 2010. 38. 13. 4. 4. 3.
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