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| − | by [[Aubrey Sekhabi]] | + | by [[Aubrey Sekhabi]] with[[Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom]] (1998). |
| + | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
| + | Premièred at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] in July 1998 directed by [[Aubrey Sekhabi]] for the [[North-West Arts Council]], with | ||
| + | [[Vusi Kunene]], [[Baby Cele]], [[Tshallo Chokwe]], [[Slindile Nodangala]], [[Kholof'elo Kola]], [[Peter Mashigo]] and [[Paul Lückhoff]]. The same production played at The [[Market Theatre]] in September 1998. | ||
| − | + | == Subject == | |
| + | ''[[Not With My Gun]]'' focuses on the emrging black middle-class elite of the early post-apartheid era. A successful black filmmaker throws a party for his three life-long friends to celebrate on the evening before one of them is to get married, and they catch a white burglar red-handed in the house. How do these four middle-class black men treat the terrified white criminal they have apprehended? How do they manage their intuitive desire for revenge? [Van Heerden (2008)][http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.sun.ac.za%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10019.1%2F1443%2Fvanheerden_theatre_2008.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1&ei=_egBU77CNYWJhQeE5oCADQ&usg=AFQjCNEWnD1BzeLnFmOV2tvyGLoMyNeT6Q&bvm=bv.61535280,d.Yms]. p 156. | ||
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Revision as of 12:24, 16 March 2014
by Aubrey Sekhabi withMpumelelo Paul Grootboom (1998).
Contents
Performance history in South Africa
Premièred at the Grahamstown Festival in July 1998 directed by Aubrey Sekhabi for the North-West Arts Council, with Vusi Kunene, Baby Cele, Tshallo Chokwe, Slindile Nodangala, Kholof'elo Kola, Peter Mashigo and Paul Lückhoff. The same production played at The Market Theatre in September 1998.
Subject
Not With My Gun focuses on the emrging black middle-class elite of the early post-apartheid era. A successful black filmmaker throws a party for his three life-long friends to celebrate on the evening before one of them is to get married, and they catch a white burglar red-handed in the house. How do these four middle-class black men treat the terrified white criminal they have apprehended? How do they manage their intuitive desire for revenge? [Van Heerden (2008)][1]. p 156.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Go to ESAT Bibliography
Return to
Return to ESAT Templates
Return to N in Plays I Original SA Plays
Return to N in Plays IV: Festivals and Pageants
Return to South_African_Theatre/Plays
Return to The ESAT Entries
Return to Main Page
