ZAKES MDA (1948 - )
| Nationality: | South African |
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Plays by Zakes Mda
And The Girls In Their Sunday Dresses |
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| 1st Published: | in And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses, Witwatersrand University Press, Johhanesburg, 1993 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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At Dawn We Sing |
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| 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 | - |
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| Synopsis: | revisits the absurdist elements of The Road and questions the sacrifice of the artist's integrity to materialistic capitalism | |||||
Dark Voices Ring |
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| 1st Published: | in The Plays of Zakes Mda, Ravan Press, Johhanesburg, 1990 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Dead End |
| 1st Produced: | Johhanesburg | 1979 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in The Plays of Zakes Mda, Ravan Press, Johhanesburg, 1990 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Hill, The |
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| 1st Published: | in The Plays of Zakes Mda, Ravan Press, Johhanesburg, 1990 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 7 characters | |||||
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| Synopsis: | racial segregation through specific themes : self-delusion and moral turpitude | |||||
Joys Of War |
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| 1st Published: | in And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses, Witwatersrand University Press, Johhanesburg, 1993 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Road, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1984 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in The Plays of Zakes Mda, Ravan Press, Johhanesburg, 1990 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 characters | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Koekemoer and Labourer engage in paralllel dialectics with no real understanding of each other, yet their one moment of convergence and understanding over Lucy ends in tragedy. | |||||
Smouldering |
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| 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 | - |
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| Synopsis: | furthers the debate on police harassment, class tensions and the choice between passive resistance and armed struggle in black communities | |||||
We Shall Sing For The Fatherland |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1978 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Ravan Press, Johhanesburg, 1980 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Synopsis: | investigates neocolonialism in Independent African countries | |||||