The Ugly Noonoo
The Ugly Noonoo comic satire written by Andrew Buckland (1954-)
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The original text
A one-person play about a "Parktown Prawn" (i.e. a species of king cricket endemic to Southern Africa)[1], used as a metaphor for an exploration of humanity's fear and how that fear compounds itself by robbing us of our ability to communicate.
First performed as The Investigation of an Ugly Noo Noo at The Warehouse in 1988, later simply billed as The Ugly Noo Noo.
Published in More Market Plays by AD Donker.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1988: First performed as The Ugly Noo Noo Upstairs at the Market on 16 August 1988, directed by Janet Buckland and performed by Andrew Buckland. Winner Fleur du Cap Award for Best New Indigenous Script 1989.
1989: Performed at the Baxter Studio on 1 March 1989.
1991: Repeated at the Market Theatre
The Ugly Noo Noo is directed by Peter Mitchell, written by and Andrew Buckland, and performed by Mpilo ‘Straw’ Nzimande. It is on at the Hilton Arts Festival on Saturday September 24 at 5:30pm and Sunday September 25 at 2:30pm in the Drama Centre.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parktown_prawn
Baxter Theatre pamphlet
List of photographs taken by Ruphin Coudyzer of Andrew Buckland productions, submitted to ESAT in 2023.
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