Black Dog/Inj’emnyana

by Barney Simon and Company. A multilingual, workshopped play which juxtaposes the lives of a group of unrelated individuals during the 1976 Soweto uprising and the renewed unrest of 1984-5, in order to reflect on the unrest and responses to it. First performed at the Market Theatre in 1984, first published in Barney Simon et al. Born in the RSA: Four Workshopped Plays (Witwatersrand University Press, 1997). Black Dog Inj’emnyama created by Barney Simon. The play was performed at the Baxter Theatre (a Market Theatre Company production), with Kurt Egelhof, Marie Human, John Ledwaba, Neil McCarthy, Gcina Mhlope, James Mthoba. The Company presented this play at Upstairs at the Market in 1984 before going to the Edinburgh Festival.

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