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A play about [[miscegenation]], the story of a doomed love between a “coloured” woman and a black man, and including consideration of issues of political intolerance in the non-European community. | A play about [[miscegenation]], the story of a doomed love between a “coloured” woman and a black man, and including consideration of issues of political intolerance in the non-European community. | ||
| − | Written in 1938, first performed at the [[ | + | Written in 1938, first performed at the [[Bantu Men’s Social Club]] October-November 1939, directed by Dhlomo, music by [[Salome Masoleng]]. It then went on tour. Unpublished, MS in Killey-Campbell Collection, University of Natal, Durban. (KCM 8267) |
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Ruby and Frank by H.I.E. Dhlomo.
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A play about miscegenation, the story of a doomed love between a “coloured” woman and a black man, and including consideration of issues of political intolerance in the non-European community.
Written in 1938, first performed at the Bantu Men’s Social Club October-November 1939, directed by Dhlomo, music by Salome Masoleng. It then went on tour. Unpublished, MS in Killey-Campbell Collection, University of Natal, Durban. (KCM 8267)
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