Too Late

Too Late is a one-Act play by Gibson Kente.

At first banned and then unbanned, it was Kente’s only published play, and one of only three that he wrote dealing directly with political themes. A melodramatic musical play with political undertones in the township style, on the death of Ntanana, a crippled girl through brutal police action and apartheid bureaucracy.

Excerpts published in S'ketsh' (1975) and play published in South African People’s Plays (Ed. Robert Kavanagh), 1981. Published in 1981 in a collection entitled South African People's Plays (edited by Robert Kanvanagh, published by Heinemann).

First performed in 1974.

Sources

Tribute to Gibson Kente by Melvin Whitebooi, Die Burger, 4 December 2004.

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