And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses
And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses is a play by Zakes Mda (1948-)
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A play about two very different women who meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty.
First performed during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on 14 August 1988 by Meso Theatre Group. The Woman was played by . The production was directed by Teresa Devant with Tokoloho Khutsoane and Gertrude Mothibe then played at the West Indian Centre, Leeds with the same cast.
Published in 1993 by Wits University Press in the collection And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses. Four Works, a volume of plays by Zakes Mda
The play was performed in London by Utopia Theatre in 2021, directed by Mojisola Elufowoju, as part of at Arcola Theatre's Today I'm Wiser Festival[1].
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Performance history in South Africa
2010: Performed at the Market Theatre, directed by Princess Mhlongo with Lesego Motsepe (the woman), Hlengiwe Lushaba (the lady)
Sources
https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/and-the-girls-in-their-sunday-dresses/
Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
https://nyupress.org/9781868142224/and-the-girls-in-their-sunday-dresses/
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