Difference between revisions of "Make Like Slaves"
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
Revision as of 14:58, 13 October 2023
Make Like Slaves is a play by Richard Rive (1930-1989). It is a one-act play with which he won the 1972 BBC African Theatre Competition. The action of the play subtly reveals the prejudices and received attitudes of a seemingly liberal white woman directing a play with black actors.
Contents
The original text
First published in the collection African Theatre (ed Gwynneth Henderson, pub Heinemann, 1972).
First published in African theatre : eight prize-winning plays for radio, edited by Gwyneth Henderson. London: Heinemann, 1973.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1976: A Rhodes University Drama Department production was directed by Roy Sargeant during the National Arts Festival in 1976.
Sources
Gosher, 1988.
Theatre programme held by NELM: [Collection: RIVE, Richard]: 2012. 193. 2. 2.
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