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Revision as of 16:54, 16 April 2025
The Fantastical History of a Useless Man, devised by Malcolm Purkey for Junction Avenue Theatre Company (JATC). A deconstruction of the “official” South African history utilizing vaudeville techniques.
The original text
First published by Ravan Press in 1978, republished in 1995 in the collection At the Junction: Four Plays by the Junction Avenue Theatre Company by Wits University Press, Johannesburg.
Performance history in South Africa
1976: Performed in April 1976 at the New Studio Theatre in the New Arts Block, University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg); performed at The Nunnery, Johannesburg, and the Space Theatre, Cape Town, directed by Malcolm Purkey for Junction Avenue Theatre Company with designs by, co-devised by and featuring William Kentridge.
1978: A Baxter Company '78 production was directed by Ken Leach. The cast: Keith Grenville, Henry Goodman, Wilson Dunster, Melanie-Ann Sher, Sandra Prinsloo, Merle Lifson, Michele Maxwell, Roland Stafford.
Sources
https://www.aspireart.net/auction/lot/14-william-kentridge-south-africa-1955-/?lot=12075&sd=1
Brian Barrow and Yvonne Williams-Short (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987. Cape Town: The Baxter Theatre.
https://www.kentridge.studio/william-kentridge-1970s-chronology/
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