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''[[Top Down]]'' by [[Muntu wa Bachaki]] (=“men of the Bachaki Theatre group”)
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''[[Top Down]]'' by [[Muntu wa Bachaki]]  
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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The play is an examination of a teacher in the black education system.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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[[Ruphin Coudyzer]]. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of [[Market Theatre]] productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
 
[[Ruphin Coudyzer]]. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of [[Market Theatre]] productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
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Xaba, Andile. 2021. 'Collective memory and the construction of a historical narrative, analysis and interpretation of selected Soweto-based community plays (1984–1994)'. Unpublished PhD thesis.
  
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

Revision as of 17:13, 29 January 2024

Top Down by Muntu wa Bachaki

The original text

The play is an examination of a teacher in the black education system.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1988: Directed by Muntu wa Bachaki. Cast : Jake Mochidi Chika, Thulani Sifeni. A workshopped play about the corruption of school principals, their lackeys and their white superiors in the Bantu Education system in the mid 1970s during the Soweto uprising. First performed by Bachaki Theatre in 1988. A synopsis published in 1989 in Maske und Kothurn 35, 1:81-85. [see Kruger, 1999, p241]

Sources

Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)

Xaba, Andile. 2021. 'Collective memory and the construction of a historical narrative, analysis and interpretation of selected Soweto-based community plays (1984–1994)'. Unpublished PhD thesis.

Go to ESAT Bibliography

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