Not With My Gun

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by Aubrey Sekhabi with Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom (1998).

Performance history in South Africa

Premièred at the Grahamstown Festival in July 1998 directed by Aubrey Sekhabi for the North West Arts Council, with Vusi Kunene, Baby Cele, John Lata/Tshallo Chokwe, Slindile Nodangala, Kholofelo Kola, Peter Mashigo and Paul Lückhoff. The same production played at The Market Theatre in September 1998.

Subject

Not With My Gun focuses on the emrging black elite of the early post-apartheid era. A successful black filmmaker throws a party for his three life-long friends to celebrate on the evening before one of them is to get married, and they catch a white burglar red-handed in the house. How do these four middle-class black men treat the terrified white criminal they have apprehended? How do they manage their intuitive desire for revenge? [Van Heerden (2008)][1]. p 156.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

National Arts Festival programme, 1998. 50-51.

Review by Garalt MacLiam published in The Star, 13 August 1998.

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