Call Me Woman

Call me Woman

the play is a series of sketches which depict the lives of women in South Africa. 

The original text

Inspired in part by Ntosake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf,

Performance history in South Africa

First performed at The Space (Cape Town)/ Market Theatre in 1979. First published ***???

Call Me Woman, by Barney Simon. A Market Theatre/Baxter Theatre production was presented at the Concert Hall, Baxter Theatre in 1980. The musical director was Thabang Masemola and the cast Saira Essa, Petunia Maboe, Nomsa Nene, Thoko Ntshinga, Gail Reagon, Natie Rula and Barrie Shah. Stage manager Mavis Lilenstein. (Source: Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987).

Call Me Woman by Barney Simon. Photocopy of playscript held at NELM ([Collection: SIMON, Barney]: 1995. 11. 5. 3. 1)

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