Neil Coppen, Mpume Mthombeni, Kira Erwin

Broschiertes Buch

Isidlamlilo / The Fire Eater

A Play

Beschreibung

An electrifying one-woman play inspired by the true story of a woman who served as a political assassin during South Africaâ s transition to democracy. As the protagonist confronts her past, she becomes a powerful symbol of defiance and compassion in a story of resistance and survival in a conflict-torn country.

Autor

Neil Coppen is a playwright and theatre-maker from KwaZulu-Natal. He is a co-founder of Empatheatre and was awarded the 2019 Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama for Tin Bucket Drum. Mpume Mthombeni is an award-winning stage and film actor from Umlazi, Durban. She has performed multiple roles in theatre, radio, film and television, and first received international acclaim for her one-woman performance in Tin Bucket Drum, which toured to New York. She is a co-founder of Empatheatre. Kira Erwin is a sociologist and Senior Researcher at the Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 120mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781776148790
• ISBN-10: 1776148797
• Artikelnr.: 70362695