Too Late

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One-Act play by Gibson Kente. At first banned and then unbanned, it was Kente’s only published play, and one of only three that he wrote dealing directly with political themes. ** First performed ***. Published in 1981 in a collection entitled South African People's Plays (edited by Robert Kanvanagh, published by Heinemann). Too Late! by Gibson Kente. A melodramatic musical play with political undertones in the township style, on the death of Ntanana, a crippled girl through brutal police action and apartheid bureaucracy. First performed in 1975, excerpts published in S'ketsh' (1975) and play published in South African People’s Plays (Ed. Robert Kavanagh), 1981.


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