And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses

And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses is a play by Zakes Mda (1948-)

The original text

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].

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2008: Performed at the State Theatre Pretoria directed by Princess Mhlongo with Lesego Motsepe (the woman), Hlengiwe Lushaba (the lady)

2010: Performed at the Market Theatre, directed by Princess Mhlongo with Lesego Motsepe (the woman), Hlengiwe Lushaba (the lady)

2014: Presented by Soweto Theatre and Tick Tock Productions, directed by Princess Zinzi Mhlongo with Lesego Motsepe (the woman), Hlengiwe Lushaba (the lady).

2016: Performed at athe POPArt Theatre, Johannesburg, from 21 to 24 April, directed by Salome Sebola, choreographed by Nhlanhla Mahlangu (Vuyani Dance Theatre) and Performed by Vuyo Madyibi and Khanyisile Ngwabe. The production is a collaboration between the Market Theatre Lab and POPArt Theatre.

2017: Performed on 14 and 15 July at the National Theatre of Namibia, 12 John Meinert Street, Windhoek. Directed by Vickson Hangula with Sepiso Mwange and Odile Gertze.