Looking for Muruga
Looking for Muruga is a play by Kriben Pillay. A satiric play about a Zulu student training to play the classical Indian role of the god Muruga.
Based on a real character (now dead), the play brings together an aging barman and a young teacher, wbo is looking for a man he knew during his student days, a waiter called Muruga.
Original text
Published in Asoka Theatre Publications 1995. ISBN 9781874994022.
Performance history in South Africa
1990: First shown as “work-in-progress” in the Asoka Theatre in 1988, but first performed formally in the Asoka Theatre, UDW 1990. Directed by Robin Singh.
Sources
Review written by Sjoerd Meijer, Daily News, 31 August 1990.
Theatre programme held by NELM Location: [Collection: PILLAY, Kriben]: 2012. 179. 2.
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