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| − | by [[Maishe Maponya]]. In this play two student leaders, who have escaped death in a police raid on a schools boycott meeting, take hold of their own future and risk their lives. Hiding out in a hostel, they befriend an old man who takes them to the "little villages of the Northern Transvaal". From here they return matured - and political activists. One of them challenges a priest and it becomes risky to stay in the hostel. In an attempt to skip the country, they are arrested. One-act. Cast: men. Published in ''[[Doing Plays for | + | by [[Maishe Maponya]]. In this play two student leaders, who have escaped death in a police raid on a schools boycott meeting, take hold of their own future and risk their lives. Hiding out in a hostel, they befriend an old man who takes them to the "little villages of the Northern Transvaal". From here they return matured - and political activists. One of them challenges a priest and it becomes risky to stay in the hostel. In an attempt to skip the country, they are arrested. One-act. Cast: men. Published in ''[[Doing Plays for a Change]]'' by [[Wits University Press]]. |
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 15:24, 27 January 2024
by Maishe Maponya. In this play two student leaders, who have escaped death in a police raid on a schools boycott meeting, take hold of their own future and risk their lives. Hiding out in a hostel, they befriend an old man who takes them to the "little villages of the Northern Transvaal". From here they return matured - and political activists. One of them challenges a priest and it becomes risky to stay in the hostel. In an attempt to skip the country, they are arrested. One-act. Cast: men. Published in Doing Plays for a Change by Wits University Press.
Performance history in South Africa
2015: 969 Festival.
Sources
Advertisement in the programme of the Wits student production of See How They Run in 1991.
Sunday World, 19 July 2015.
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