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''[[Easter Weekend 1960]]''
 
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''[[Shades of a Conflict]]''  
 
''[[Shades of a Conflict]]''  
  
''[[Grey Corner]]''.
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''[[A Dark Grey Corner]]'', which was inspired by Leroy Jones’s ''[[The Dutchman]]''.
  
 
''[[Matter of Convenience]]''
 
''[[Matter of Convenience]]''
  
''[[Death of a Rebel Ghost]]'' and ''[[A Dark Grey Corner]]'', which was inspired by Leroy Jones’s The Dutchman.
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''[[Death of a Rebel Ghost]]''
  
 
== Awards, etc ==
 
== Awards, etc ==

Revision as of 18:30, 27 January 2024

Dukuza ka Macu (19**-). Playwright.

Biography

Youth

Training

Career

He wrote many plays in the period from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s. He considered himself to be a political playwright.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

His plays include:

Night of the Long Wake (1983).

Dying of the Light

Easter Weekend 1960

Shades of a Conflict

A Dark Grey Corner, which was inspired by Leroy Jones’s The Dutchman.

Matter of Convenience

Death of a Rebel Ghost

Awards, etc

Sources

Magalasi 1999.

NELM catalogue.

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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