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A play created in 2000 by the students of the Market Theatre Laboratory workshopped and directed by Richard Manamela.

Subject

The play is about the new scourge that has attacked the cities of South Africa: xenophobia. Xenophobia is prevalent mostly among working class and unemployed South Africans who blame foreigners for every woe that beset the country, ranging from crime and AIDS to the theft of their jobs and of their women by hordes that are descending from the north. (Frances Harding)

Performance history in South Africa

Grahamstown Festival in July and the Market Theatre in August 2000. At the United Nations World Conference against Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerances in Durban in 2001.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

Go to ESAT Bibliography

Harding, Frances 2003. The Performance Arts in Africa: A Reader London: Routledge.

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