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And The Girls in their Sunday Dresses
And The Girls in their Sunday Dresses has been adapted for the stage from Zakes Mda’s collection of stories. It is a humorous story of two characters, The Woman and The Lady who meet during a long wait in a queue of a subsidies rice by the goverment. The Lady, a retiring prostitute, cares more about what has defined her for any years in the choice of career, her mannerism and appearance all mark her sophisticated, pretentious woman of the world and her insecurities reflect her true character. The Woman, although a domestic worker, is a far less complicated and insightful person. And the Gir...
Biko - Where the Soul Resides
Martin Koboekae, with his unique humour, proves that plays, which highlight a painful past, can be presented without leaving anyone feeling guilty or upset. Biko: Where the Soul Resides explores Steve Biko’s life from 1968 when he led the black student break-away from the white-controlled National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) to form an all-black South African Student Organisation (SASO). The play ends with his death in September 1977 in a police cell. The play captures some important snippets from Biko’s political and social activism without ignoring his life as an ordinary m...
Sexy play has em coming back for more
THE sexually explicit play Foreplay has garnered nine nominations, making it one of the top contenders at the 2009 Naledi Theatre Awards on March 7. Written by Paul Grootboom the show has been making waves at the Market Theatre in Newtown for a while now. It’s been nominated in major categories such as best production of a straight play, best cutting-edge production, best director, best performance by an actress and best supporting actress among others. Foreplay is in good company. In 2006 James Ngcobo’s adaptation, The Suitcase, received 10 nominations and won six. Grootboom said yes...
Finding Foreplays muse
The Pen and Foreplay, two plays currently showing at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, achieve dramatic effect in different but fascinating ways. The former achieves intensity by its interiority and self-consciousness whereas the latter derives its power by its graphic and gruesome depiction of sex and violence on the stage. The Pen features Sello Maake ka-Ncube as Sipho, a playwright struggling to finish a play as he has lost sight of his inspirational muse. Appropriately for such a play (directed by Mpho Molepo), the stage is stacked with books, alcohol bottles and a hangman’s noose t...
The Pen
The Pen takes audiences on a trip into the mind of young playwright, Sipho, in the throes of writing a new play. Beset by writers block, the playwright is drawn into a relationship with Thandi, his Muse. Lured into a seductive journey, the boundaries between fantasy and reality become blurred as he begins to live in an increasingly illusionary world dominated by his sexy, assertive writing Goddess. His girlfriend Pinky, innocently drawn into his tender reverie, suffers as she begins to understand the depths of his passion for Thandi. Pinky’s attempts to resuscitate their romance are frustr...
