The Game

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A play by Duma ka Ndlovu. A Kente-style musical melodrama.

The original text

The play focuses on the lives of nine black women in the Maximum Security prison at Middelburg, each with a tale to tell.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Presented by the Windybrow Centrre for the Arts at the National Arts Festival, 1997. Directed by Duma Ka-Ndlovu, stage manager Mpho Mataboge. The cast:Mary Twala, Thandi Zulu, Nomhle Nkonyeni, Baby Cele, Lindiwe Chibi, Suthukazi Arosi, Vanessa Jansen, Abigail Kubheka. (Source: National Arts Festival programme, 1997).


Sources

Kruger, 1999, p195.


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