Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema, Barney Simon

Woza Albert! (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hauptfleisch, Temple

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Woza Albert! is one of the most popular and influential plays to have come out of the South African cultural struggle of the 1980s and a central work in the canon of South African theatre. Working with the idea of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ taking place in apartheid South Africa, the playwrights improvised a brilliant two-man show consisting of 26 vignettes, commenting on and satirising life under the apartheid regime. The play has become one of the most anthologized and produced South African plays both in South Africa, and internationally and is studied widely in schools as well as universities.

This Student Edition contains a commentary and notes by Temple Hauptfleisch, Emeritus Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

METHUEN DRAMA STUDENT EDITIONS are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. A well as the complete text of the play itself, this volume contains:

· A contextualised chronology of the play and the playwrights' lives and works
· an introductory discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created
· a succinct overview of the creation processes followed and subsequent performance history of the piece
· an analysis of, and commentary on, some of the major themes and specific issues addressed by the text
· a bibliography of suggested primary and secondary materials.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350025059
• Artikelnr.: 50925093

Autorenporträt

Percy Mtwa was born and bred in Wattville, Benoni. In 1979 director Gibson Kente gave him a role as singer/dancer in Mama and the Load, which played at the Market and Baxter Theatres and toured South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
1.1. A brief overview of the place and impact of Woza Albert! within the broader history of South African theatre, and the related cultural, social and political context
1.2 Biographical details about the authors and the theatre company

2. Woza Albert!. The play-text (with on-page explanatory notes)

3. Discussion
3.1 The play's main themes : a discussion focussed on key questions and issue
3.2 How the play was created
3.3 Production history since 1981 (including spin-off productions/adaptations)
3.4 Critical views of the play and the various productions

4. Contextual information
4.1 Chronology of the apartheid era: significant cultural, theatrical, social, economic and political events in South Africa (1948-1994)
4.2 Glossary of relevant dramatic and theatrical terms and unique South African expressions, terms and names
4.3 Suggested reading: Bibliography of relevant sources and related texts

Rezensionen

The most politically potent show ever staged in South Africa Observer