The Meeting

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The Meeting is a 1987 play by American writer Jeff Stetson [1] about an imaginary meeting between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X in a hotel in Harlem.

Performance history in South Africa

198*: Presented at the Market Theatre, directed by John Kani in the late 1980s.

1992: Performed Upstairs at the Market starring Sydney Chama and Louis Seboko in February 1992.

2017: A Market Theatre production featured Brendon Daniels, Aubrey Poo and Litha Bam. Some of the performances were attended by the author, on his first visit to South Africa.

Sources

Theatre programme held by NELM: [Collection: MARKET THEATRE]: 2007. 10. 10. 106. 4.

City Press, 2 February 1992.

Business Day, 23 June 2011.

Review by A.J. Opperman published in Die Beeld, 16 February 2017.


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