Umabatha

by Welcome Msomi. A Zulu reworking of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. First presented in the University of Natal’s Open Air Theatre under the direction of Pieter Scholtz and Elizabeth Sneddon in 1970. It also travelled to London in 1972, where it played to acclaim in the *** theatre. During 1978 it was performed in the Baxter theatre, dirtected by Phillip Msomi. Revived in 1998, it was once more taken to London, and in 2001 played there to acclaim once more, as part of the Celebrate South Africa Festival in London. First published by ** in 19**. (See also Macbeth by William Shakespeare under the second list of this section, for other translations of the play.)

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