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The play uses techniques of multiple roleplay, caricature, flashbacks and revolutionary songs to show the radicalization of a young nurse Nyamezo.
 
The play uses techniques of multiple roleplay, caricature, flashbacks and revolutionary songs to show the radicalization of a young nurse Nyamezo.
  
Published in ''[[Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays]]'' (1999).
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Published (as ''[[Umongikazi/The Nurse]]'') in ''[[Four Plays]]'' is a collection of dramatic works, edited by Zakes Mda (1948-)
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Published (as ''[[Umongikazi: The Nurse]]'') in ''[[Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays]]'' (1999).
  
 
==Performance history in South Africa==
 
==Performance history in South Africa==

Revision as of 10:03, 8 April 2024

Umongikazi: The Nurse is a play by Maishe Maponya (1951-2021).

The original text

The play uses techniques of multiple roleplay, caricature, flashbacks and revolutionary songs to show the radicalization of a young nurse Nyamezo.

Published (as Umongikazi/The Nurse) in Four Plays is a collection of dramatic works, edited by Zakes Mda (1948-)

Published (as Umongikazi: The Nurse) in Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays (1999).

Performance history in South Africa

1982: Produced at the Market Theatre, starring Gcina Mhlophe.

Sources

Theatre programme held by NELM: [Collection: MAPONYA, Maishe]: 2012. 332. 1. 5.

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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