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''[[And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses]]'' is a play by [[Zakes Mda]] (1948-)
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#REDIRECT [[And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses]]
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==The original text==
 
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A play about two very different women who meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty.
 
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First performed during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on 14 August 1988 by Meso Theatre Group. The Woman was played by . The production was directed by [[Teresa Devant]] with [[Tokoloho]] Khutsoane and [[Gertrude Mothibe]] then played at the West Indian Centre, Leeds with the same cast.
 
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Published in 1993 by [[Wits University Press]] in the collection ''[[And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses. Four Works]]'', a volume of plays by [[Zakes Mda]]
 
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The play was performed in London by Utopia Theatre in 2021, directed by Mojisola Elufowoju, as  part of at Arcola Theatre's ''Today I'm Wiser'' Festival[https://www.arcolatheatre.com/today-im-wiser/].
 
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==Translations and adaptations==
 
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
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2010: Performed at the [[Market Theatre]], directed by [[Princess Mhlongo]] with [[Lesego Motsepe]] (the woman), [[Hlengiwe Lushaba]] (the lady)
 
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==Sources==
 
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https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/and-the-girls-in-their-sunday-dresses/
 
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[[Ruphin Coudyzer]]. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of [[Market Theatre]] productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
 
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https://nyupress.org/9781868142224/and-the-girls-in-their-sunday-dresses/
 
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Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
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== Return to ==
 
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Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]
 
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Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]
 
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Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]
 
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Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]
 
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Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]
 
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