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| − | Hugely funded and controversial AIDS-awareness play written under contract for the Department of Health. | + | Hugely funded and controversial AIDS-awareness play written under contract for the Department of Health. An extravagant Broadway-style production featuring the trademark dancing girls in gymslips, energetic song and dance sequences and lavish staging. |
==Performance history in South Africa== | ==Performance history in South Africa== | ||
Latest revision as of 11:23, 4 June 2025
Sarafina II is a musical by Mbongeni Ngema. A sequel of sorts to Ngema's hugely successful musical Sarafina.
Also billed as Sarafina 2.
Original text
Hugely funded and controversial AIDS-awareness play written under contract for the Department of Health. An extravagant Broadway-style production featuring the trademark dancing girls in gymslips, energetic song and dance sequences and lavish staging.
Performance history in South Africa
1995: First produced at The Natal Playhouse in Durban on World AIDS Day, December 1, 1995. Eventually the production was stopped in June 1996 as a result of public outcry, the opposition of AIDS-activists and the investigations by the Heath Commission into financial irregularities in the allocation and management of the R14 million allocated for the play by Ngema and his company, Committed Artists.
Sources
Johann van Heerden (2008)][1]
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