The Game
A play by Duma ka Ndlovu (1995).
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The original text
A Kente-style musical melodrama. The play focuses on the lives of nine black women in the Maximum Security prison at Middelburg, each with a tale to tell. Kruger, 1999, p195.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Staged at the Windybrow Arts Centre in July/August 1996, directed by Duma ka Ndlovu, with Sophie Mcgina, Nomhle Nkonyeni, Suthukazi Arosi, Thandi Zulu, Lindi Chibi, Baby Cele, Vanessa Jensen and Busi Nake.
Presented by the Windybrow Arts Centre at the Grahamstown Festival in 1997, directed by Duma ka Ndlovu, with Mary Twala, Thandi Zulu, Nomhle Nkonyeni, Baby Cele, Lindiwe Chibi, Suthukazi Arosi, Vanessa Jansen and Abigail Kubheka. Stage manager Mpho Mataboge.
Sources
Go to ESAT Bibliography Source: National Arts Festival programme, 1997
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