Big Dada
Big Dada is a play by Brett Bailey, about Idi Amin Dada [1], President of Uganda (1971-79). World premiere in the Tropentheater in Amsterdam at the Roots Festival in June 2001.
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2001: Premiered in South African at the Grahamstown Festival in 2001, a Third World Bunfight production directed by Brett Bailey with an all-male cast of ten singer-dancer-actors, led by Sello Sebotsane as Big Dada. The same production played in the Baxter Theatre after the Festival. 2005: Directed: Brett Bailey. Cast: Ace Bonde, Mxolisi Bosvark, Lefa Letsika, Bangani Manok, Xola Mda, Bongile Mantsai, Lulama Masimini, Odidi Mfenyana, Terence Nojila, Seputla Sebogodi, Abey Xakwe.
Sources
Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
Mail & Guardian, 7 June 2001.
Natal Witness, 7 July 2001.
Sunday Independent, 8 July 2001.
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