Love, Crime and Johannesburg
musical by Malcolm Purkey, Carol Steinberg and members of the Junction Avenue Theatre Company (1999). Published by Wits University Press (2000).
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OLD >>> A musical about the dehumanising of Johannesburg society, told through the stories of three chracters based on the escapades of struggle poet Mzwakhe Mbuli, foreign affairs official Robert McBride and transit heist mastermind Collin Chauke. Performed at the Market Theatre in 1997, it received negative criticism from the ANC government.
Performance history in South Africa
Premièred at the Grahamstown Festival in June 1999 with the Junction Avenue Theatre Company, directed by Malcolm Purkey, with Ramolao Makhene, Lindani Nkosi, Arthur Molepo, Baby Cele, Linda Sebezo, Gina Shmukler and Lawrence Joffe. The same production opened in the Market Theatre on 22 July 1999.
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