Dukuza ka Macu

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Dukuza ka Macu (19**-). Playwright.

Biography

Youth

Training

Career

He wrote many plays in the period from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s. He considered himself to be a political playwright.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

His plays include:

Night of the Long Wake (1983).

Dying of the Light

Easter Weekend 1960

Shades of a Conflict

A Dark Grey Corner

Matter of Convenience

Death of a Rebel Ghost

The Park (with Sarah Pleydell) (an adaptation of LeRoi Jones's Dutchman) (1979)

Awards, etc

Sources

Magalasi 1999.

NELM catalogue.

Andile Xaba. 2021. 'Collective memory and the construction of a historical narrative, analysis and interpretation of selected Soweto-based community plays (1984–1994)'. Unpublished PhD thesis.

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