Mooi Street Moves

Mooi Street Moves is a play by Paul Slabolepszy (1992). A satirical play in which savvy urban black shepherds hapless white men lost in the new urban environment of post-apartheid South Africa**??

Staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1994.

The play won several awards, e.g. the Paper Boat Award for Best Production (Mayfest, Scotland, 1994).

Performance history in South Africa

1992: First produced at the Grahamstown Festival as a one-act play in 1992. In 1993 a second, two act version was developed with the actors Martin le Maitre and Seputla Sebogodi for the Market Theatre. This version was published in Slabolepszy: Mooi Street and Other Moves (Witwatersrand University Press), 1994. Also published in Drama for a New South Africa by Indiana University Press.

1993: A Market Theatre and Foot/Paul production of Mooi Street Moves was staged in the Laager Theatre, 27 January - 27 February 1993, directed by the author, assisted by Lara Foot.

2002: Staged, in an updated version, at the Grahamstown Festival in 2002, directed by Mncedisi Shabangu, with Antony Coleman (Henry) and Peter Mashigo (Stix). In November/December 2002 the same production ( presentated by the Collective Theatre Company) was staged in the Laager at the Market Theatre.

Sources

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

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