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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
2001: Premiered in South African at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] in 2001, a [[Third World Bunfight]] production directed by [[Brett Bailey]] with an all-male cast of ten singer-dancer-actors, led by [[Sello Sebotsane]] as Big Dada. The same production played in the [[Baxter Theatre]] after the Festival. | 2001: Premiered in South African at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] in 2001, a [[Third World Bunfight]] production directed by [[Brett Bailey]] with an all-male cast of ten singer-dancer-actors, led by [[Sello Sebotsane]] as Big Dada. The same production played in the [[Baxter Theatre]] after the Festival. | ||
| + | 2005: Directed: [[Brett Bailey]]. Cast: [[Ace Bonde]], [[Mxolisi Bosvark]], [[Lefa Letsika]], [[Bangani Manok]], [[Xola Mda]], [[Bongile Mantsai]], [[Lulama Masimini]], [[Odidi Mfenyana]], [[Terence Nojila]], [[Seputla Sebogodi]], [[Abey Xakwe]]. | ||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
Revision as of 10:33, 7 March 2024
Big Dada is a play by Brett Bailey, about Idi Amin Dada [1], President of Uganda (1971-79). World premiere in the Tropentheater in Amsterdam at the Roots Festival in June 2001.
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The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2001: Premiered in South African at the Grahamstown Festival in 2001, a Third World Bunfight production directed by Brett Bailey with an all-male cast of ten singer-dancer-actors, led by Sello Sebotsane as Big Dada. The same production played in the Baxter Theatre after the Festival. 2005: Directed: Brett Bailey. Cast: Ace Bonde, Mxolisi Bosvark, Lefa Letsika, Bangani Manok, Xola Mda, Bongile Mantsai, Lulama Masimini, Odidi Mfenyana, Terence Nojila, Seputla Sebogodi, Abey Xakwe.
Sources
Mail & Guardian, 7 June 2001.
Natal Witness, 7 July 2001.
Sunday Independent, 8 July 2001.
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