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''[[Top Down]]'' by [[Muntu wa Bachaki]]  
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''[[Top Down]]'' by [[Muntu wa Bachaki]] (1950-2020)
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
The play is an examination of a teacher in the black education system.
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A workshopped play about the corruption of school principals, their lackeys and their white superiors in the Bantu Education system in the mid 1970s during the Soweto uprising.
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A synopsis published in 1989 in ''[[Maske und Kothurn]]'' 35, 1:81-85. [see Kruger, 1999, p241].
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1988:  Directed by [[Muntu wa Bachaki]]. Cast : [[Jake Mochidi Chika]], [[Thulani Sifeni]]. A workshopped play about the corruption of school principals, their lackeys and their white superiors in the Bantu Education system in the mid 1970s during the Soweto uprising. First performed by [[Bachaki Theatre]] in 1988. A synopsis published in 1989 in ''[[Maske und Kothurn]]'' 35, 1:81-85. [see Kruger, 1999, p241]
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1988:  Directed by [[Muntu wa Bachaki]]. Cast : [[Jake Mochidi Chika]], [[Thulani Sifeni]]. First performed by [[Bachaki Theatre]] in 1988. The play also toured in England and Switzerland in the late 1980s.
  
 
==Sources==
 
==Sources==

Revision as of 17:15, 29 January 2024

Top Down by Muntu wa Bachaki (1950-2020)

The original text

A workshopped play about the corruption of school principals, their lackeys and their white superiors in the Bantu Education system in the mid 1970s during the Soweto uprising. A synopsis published in 1989 in Maske und Kothurn 35, 1:81-85. [see Kruger, 1999, p241].

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1988: Directed by Muntu wa Bachaki. Cast : Jake Mochidi Chika, Thulani Sifeni. First performed by Bachaki Theatre in 1988. The play also toured in England and Switzerland in the late 1980s.

Sources

Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)

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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