Theatre as witness
Subtitle: three testimonial plays from South Africa : in collaboration with and based on the lives of the original performers
By: by Yael Farber ; foreword by Desmond Tutu ; introduction by Amanda Stuart Fisher ; interview between Amanda Stuart Fisher and Yael Farber.
Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781840028201
Subjects: Mtshali, Thembi -- Drama.; Kumalo, Duma, -- d. 2006 -- Drama.; Apartheid -- South Africa -- Drama.; Political plays, South African (English); South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 -- Drama.; South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Description: "Yael Farber's trilogy of plays bears powerful testimony to the personal truths of those who lived through the brutal Apartheid regime in South Africa. Woman in Waiting tells of Thembi Mtshali's separation from her mother as a child, only to continue this legacy of waiting when forced to leave her own baby to mind other people's children in the white suburbs. Amajuba is a moving tapestry of different personal perspectives on growing up under Apartheid. He Left Quietly is the harrowing experience of Duma Kumalo, one of the wrongly accused Sharpeville Six, on South Africa's Death Row; preparations made for his death and ultimate reprieve."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: A woman in waiting / with Thembi Mtshali-Jones; title: Amajuba : like doves we rise / with Tshallo Chokwe, Roelf Matlala, Bongeka Mpongwana, Philip 'Tipo' Tindisa and Jabulile Tshabalala; title: He left quietly / with Duma Kumalo.