LARA FOOT-NEWTON
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Plays by Lara Foot-Newton
Hear And Now |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | written by Lara Foot-Newton and Lionel Newton | |||||
| Synopsis: | Jan is a reclusive book-lover, crippled by a childhood secret. Elizabeth is the woman next door who cannot help but love him. Blending wit and pathos with striking visual imagery, Hear and Now is a modern-day parable of healing, told through the story of a unique and inspiring friendship. | |||||
Karoo Moose |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Baxter Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | twin tale of a moose that came to a tiny impoverished village oin the Karoo region of South Africa, and the 15 year old girl presented by her father in part payment for his unpaid debts to the bad hats who are harassing him. - Benedict Nightingale, The Times | |||||
Reach |
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| 1st Published: | in At This Stage: Plays from Post-apartheid South Africa, Witwatersrand University Press (August 31, 2009) | ISBN/ASIN | 978-1868144938 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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![]() | a story of trying to connect. Two South Africans from different generations reach out across conflicting experiences and racial lines in an attempt to reconcile their shared past | |||||
Tshepang |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | Mopo | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A hard-hitting play set in a desperately poor South African township. The rape of a baby brings the township into the media eye and forces the community to face how common child-rape is in a place where supposedly "nothing much happens". Based on the true story of a baby named Tshepang, Lara Foot-Newton's play reflects on the shocking 20,000 child rapes committed in South Africa each year. | |||||
Ways Of Dying |
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | adaptation of Zakes Mda's novel | |||||
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Well Being, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written by Lara Foot-Newton, Andrew Buckland and Lionel Newton | |||||
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