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| − | ''Ipi Zombi?'',workshopped by [[Brett Bailey]] and cast in 1996 as ''"Zombie"''. First in a trilogy of plays ''The Plays of Miracle and Wonder'': ''[[Ipi Zombi?]]'', ''[[iMumbo Jumbo]]'' and ''[[The Prophet]]''. Published in ''[[Drama for a New South Africa]]'' by [[Indiana University Press]]. | + | ''Ipi Zombi?'', workshopped by [[Brett Bailey]] and cast in 1996 as ''"Zombie"''. First in a trilogy of plays ''The Plays of Miracle and Wonder'': ''[[Ipi Zombi?]]'', ''[[iMumbo Jumbo]]'' and ''[[The Prophet]]''. Published in ''[[Drama for a New South Africa]]'' by [[Indiana University Press]]. |
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Ipi Zombi?, workshopped by Brett Bailey and cast in 1996 as "Zombie". First in a trilogy of plays The Plays of Miracle and Wonder: Ipi Zombi?, iMumbo Jumbo and The Prophet. Published in Drama for a New South Africa by Indiana University Press.
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Subject
In 1995 twelve black schoolboys were killed in a minibus crash just outside a small South African township. Fifty local women were held accountable for the deaths of the boys, and a witch hunt was launched. People believed the boys had been killed to serve as zombie slaves for the witches. Several women were executed. Diviners tried in vain to resurrect the dead boys. Based on real life events, Ipi Zombi? takes you on a haunting journey into a dark wonderland of African folklore and fear, exploring the tensions between traditional beliefs, Christianity and western law. A world populated by witches, zombies, priests, vigilantes and wide-eyed schoolgirls. Dramatised by 15 performers on a set reminiscent of a giant voodoo shrine. http://www.thirdworldbunfight.co.za/productions/ipi-zombi?.html
Performance history in South Africa
Written, designed and directed by Brett Bailey, with Abey Xakwe, Silulami Lwana, Noxolo Donyeli, Andile Bonde and Xola Mda, premièred at the Grahamstown Festival 1996 as "Zombie", presented by Third World Bunfight and directed by Brett Bailey. Staged as Ipi Zombi? at the Artscape Theatre in 1996, in 1998 on the main programme of the Grahamstown Festival, a tour of rural Eastern Cape Province, the Hilton Festival in KwaZulu-Natal, and the Spier Arts Festival in the Cape. In 1999 at the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Bulawayo. Staged in English and vernacular versions.
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Sources
http://www.thirdworldbunfight.co.za/productions/ipi-zombi?.html
See: [Van Heerden (2008)][1]. pp 144-147.
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