South Africa Plays
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South Africa Plays is a collection of five South African plays, compiled and introduced by Stephen Gray.
Published by Nick Hern Books in
The volume contains Somewhere on the Border by Anthony Akerman,The Hungry Earth by Maishe Maponya, which dramatises black disabilities and the will to liberation; Susan Pam's "Curl Up and Dye", a story about five women in a hair salon who find the divisions of apartheid stronger than their common interests; Paul Slabolepsky's "Over the Hill" which uses sporting metaphor to anatomize the white middle class and "Just Like Home", a mediation on exile.
