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2022: A new production, directed by [[Peter Mitchell]] and performed by [[Mpilo Nzimande]], played at the [[Hilton Arts Festival]] in the [[Drama Centre]] on 23-25 September. | 2022: A new production, directed by [[Peter Mitchell]] and performed by [[Mpilo Nzimande]], played at the [[Hilton Arts Festival]] in the [[Drama Centre]] on 23-25 September. | ||
Revision as of 10:36, 3 April 2024
The Ugly Noonoo comic satire written by Andrew Buckland (1954-)
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The original text
A one-person (mime) play about a "Parktown Prawn" (i.e. a species of king cricket endemic to Southern Africa)[1], used as a metaphor for an exploration of humanity's fear and how that fear compounds itself by robbing us of our ability to communicate.
First performed as The Investigation of an Ugly Noo Noo at The Warehouse in 1988, later simply billed as The Ugly Noo Noo.
Published in More Market Plays by AD Donker.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1988: First performed as The Ugly Noo Noo Upstairs at the Market on 16 August 1988, directed by Janet Buckland and performed by Andrew Buckland. Winner Fleur du Cap Award for Best New Indigenous Script 1989.
1989: Performed by Buckland at the Baxter Studio on 1 March 1989.
1991: Repeated by Buckland at the Market Theatre
2010: Performed by Andrew Buckland at the Market Theatre
2022: A new production, directed by Peter Mitchell and performed by Mpilo Nzimande, played at the Hilton Arts Festival in the Drama Centre on 23-25 September.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parktown_prawn
Baxter Theatre pamphlet
List of photographs taken by Ruphin Coudyzer of Andrew Buckland productions, submitted to ESAT in 2023.
Robyn Sassen. 2022. Don’t squish me, I’m only a visitor, My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers (23 September, 2022)[2]
https://hiltonfestival.co.za/festival-2022/
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