Difference between revisions of "Life after the Credits Roll"
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Latest revision as of 07:26, 25 September 2014
Aternative title: Life after the Credits Roll - a Piece for Five Performers and the Spirit of Makana, also witten Life after the credits roll - a piece for five performers and the spirit of makana.
A "theatre dance piece" workshopped by Robyn Orlin and her The City Theatre and Dance Group.
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Subject
The piece deals with two subjects at the same time: 1) Nxele Makana, the Xhosa prophet and prisoner who drowned while escaping from Robben Island in 1819, and 2) the survival of theatre and the performing arts in the New South Africa, as this production does, on National Arts Council (NAC) grants.
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
First staged in April 1999 in the Laboratory at the Market Theatre, directed by Robyn Orlin, with actors Toni Morkel, Gerard Bester, Geoffrey Matenji and dancers Nelisiwe Xaba and Sello Pesa.
Sources
The Star, 21 April 1999.
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