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GREIG COETZEE |
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Greig Coetzee has been active as a writer, director and performer and has written for television, radio and theatre. His work has received numerous South African Theatre Awards. In the UK, Coetzee has received two Scotsman Fringe First Awards (2000 & 2006) as well as The Stage Best Actor Award (Edinburgh Fringe 2000). His BBC Radio 4 Drama, 'Banana Republic' received a Sony Radio Academy Award (2005). His work has been produced on stages worldwide including seasons at the Lincoln Center, New York; London's Soho Theatre and The Traverse in Edinburgh. Greig studied at the University of Natal where he graduated with a BA in Zulu and Drama in 1989. After a year of conscripted service in the SADF and five years of teaching at Pietermaritzburg Girls High, Greig entered professional theatre in 1995. His first success as a writer/performer was a stage play, White Men with Weapons, which won numerous awards after it premiered in 1996. This play also provided Greig with his first international breakthrough as part of the Woza Africa: After Apartheid Festival in July 1997 at the Lincoln Center in New York. To date Greig has performed this and other self-penned plays in the U.S., Ireland, Singapore, Australia and in various countries throughout Europe and Britain.
Plays by Greig Coetzee
Happy Natives | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (15 Mar 2004) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1869140335 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7368 | |||
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Genre: | Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | multi role | |||||
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| The play shows how little we still know each other and how South Africans still make assumptions about each other based on racial grouping rather than on individual reality. "Happy Natives" is very contemporary, looking at the way in which South Africans struggle to define their present identity. The author's play points out just what an interesting and richly human world we inhabit. He shows that no human being in fact fits into the images that the media would like to sell us, and that the effort required to relate authentically to one another is worthwhile. A willingness to listen, a tolerance of different ways, and a sense of one's own worth are shown to be ways to greater enjoyment of this diversity. | |||||
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Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny | ||
| 1st Produced: | South Africa | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny and Other Plays, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (1 Sep 2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1869141806 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55997 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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| Combine Shakespearean verse and American Rap to write a South African Natural Born Killers (using Johannesburg slang). You might come up with Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny. A love-story, a quest for faith and a car-chase that takes you across South Africa from Durban to Secunda to Hillbrow to Hell and back again. This is a darky tragicomedy about a whitey and his bubblegum, lip-gloss, double-come, kick-arse, troublesome cherry. (Very. . .) Writer/performer Greig Coetzee (Fringe First Award & The Stage Best Actor Award 2000) sees this work as a mini rock-opera for spoken word. Or a road movie for the stage. Visual artist Michelle Coetzee has created (admittedly twisted) South African landscapes for the projections. Afro-Saxon guitarist, singer and song-writer Syd Kitchen has composed the original soundtrack for the show and plays while Coetzee performs. Where does Johnny fit in Mandela's new South Africa? Is he a white trash dinosaur? Or is he the last cowboy hero in boots and blue jeans? What we do know is that he's on the road, looking for love, redemption, an AK-47 and the quickest way out of Secunda. . . | |||||
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White Men With Weapons | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57647 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | about the experience, the attitudes and the deperate, self pitying post-apartheid trauma of the white soldiers who in the apartheid times made up the South African Defence Force (SADF). | |||||
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