Plastics

by Shirley Johnston. A play about the struggle of four Sandton housewives against the onslaught of poverty and finding salvation in Tupperware. SACPAC Best Playwright Award 1991. Produced in 7 centres around SA, directed by Johnston, with **, *** and in Adelaide, Australia for International Women’s Playwright Festival. Published by Nas Bib.

Presented by PACT at the Alexander Theatre and at the Momentum Theatre in 1993, directed by Jacqui Singer and starring Gaby Lomberg, Louise Saint-Claire, Henrietta Gryffenberg, and Motshabi Tyelele. Design by Lindy Roberts, choreography by Jeanette Ginslov, musical/original score by Michele Maxwell.

Directed by Blaise Koch, Nico Arena (1994), with Jana van Niekerk, Lynita Crofford, Nomkhita Bavuma, Billy Second.

Sources

The Citizen, 12 May 1992.

The Argus, 15 February 1994.

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