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[[Rhodes University Drama Department]] production directed by [[Andrew Buckland]], in May 1996, including [[Yael de Jong]] as Ruth and ]]Shane Manilal]] as Mingus. | [[Rhodes University Drama Department]] production directed by [[Andrew Buckland]], in May 1996, including [[Yael de Jong]] as Ruth and ]]Shane Manilal]] as Mingus. | ||
Revision as of 22:11, 28 August 2015
Sophiatown is a play with music by The Junction Avenue Theatre Company. An influential workshop play about the famous freehold area in Johannesburg, devised and performed by director Malcolm Purkey and the cast. Based on a true prank in which Nat Nasaka and Lewis Nkosi had advertised in Drum magazine for a Jewish girl to come and stay with them in Sophiatown. The play deals with the “what if” of this situation, and setting it in a household representative of a spectrum of township dwellers, a microcosm of the Sophiatown milieu of the 1950s as seen from the perspective of the 1980s.
Contents
The original text
First published as a single text in 1994, then republished with other plays in 1995.**[Kruger 1999: 96-7; JATC, 1995] Published by David Philip and also in At The Junction by Wits University Press. Also published as Sophiatown! in Drama for a New South Africa by Indiana University Press.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
First performed at the Market Theatre on 18 February 1986, a Junction Avenue Theatre Company production directed by Malcolm Purkey, with sets designed by Sarah Roberts and William Kentridge and poster by Kentridge, at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, from 18 February 1986. The play quickly transferred to the Grahamstown Festival and went on to a phenomenally successful run over the next number of years, winning numerous awards and touring internationally.
Rhodes University Drama Department production directed by Andrew Buckland, in May 1996, including Yael de Jong as Ruth and ]]Shane Manilal]] as Mingus.
Sources
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