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The original text
The play is an examination of a teacher in the black education system.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1988: Directed by Muntu wa Bachaki. Cast : Jake Mochidi Chika, Thulani Sifeni. A workshopped play about the corruption of school principals, their lackeys and their white superiors in the Bantu Education system in the mid 1970s during the Soweto uprising. First performed by Bachaki Theatre in 1988. A synopsis published in 1989 in Maske und Kothurn 35, 1:81-85. [see Kruger, 1999, p241]
Sources
Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
Xaba, Andile. 2021. 'Collective memory and the construction of a historical narrative, analysis and interpretation of selected Soweto-based community plays (1984–1994)'. Unpublished PhD thesis.
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