Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise

A 2001 play conceived and written by Yael Farber, in collaboration with the cast Tshallo Tshokwe, Wendy Sokhupa, Phillip Tipo Tindisa, France Conradie and Jabulile Tshabalala.

Published by Oberon Books (London), together with A Woman in Waiting and He Left Quietly in Theatre as Witness, a trilogy of Yael Farber plays - foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Subject

Through song, dance, narrative and performance the play tells the true stories of five black individuals who grew up in South Africa during the dying days of apartheid. They tell their stories in an attempt to put the past behind them and to move forward into a better future.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Premièred in Mafikeng in 2000, directed by Yael Farber, with Tshallo Tshokwe, Wendy Sokhupa, Phillip Tipo Tindisa, France Conradie and Jabulile Tshabalala.

The same production was staged at the Grahamstown Festival in 2001 and the Momentum Theatre at the State Theatre in 2003.

Performance history outside South Africa

Staged by Arc Productions and Mmabana Arts Foundation toured through England in 2003 after opening at the Oxford Playhouse in June, directed by Yael Farber, with Tshallo Tshokwe, Wendy Sokhupa, Phillip Tipo Tindisa, France Conradie and Jabulile Tshabalala.

Staged by the Culture Project in the the Lynn Redgrave Theater in New York City in 2006, directed by Yael Farber, with Tshallo Tshokwe, Roelf Matlala, Bongeka Mpongwana, Phillip Tipo Tindisa and Jabulile Tshabalala.