Mbongeni Ngema: Lion of the stage
Since making an indelible mark on South African theatre with Woza Albert!, Mbongeni Ngema has become mired in controversy.
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Stages of identity
An academic study dedicated to exploring South African drama could easily be viewed as a turgid exercise in promoting scholarly jargon.
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New audiences, new fans
Multidisciplinary works take the lead and there's a new confidence in the voices of our young theatremakers.
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Collective catharsis
Through theatre ordinary people can address difficult issues, writes Percy Zvomuya.
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Unspectacular spectacle
Deon Opperman promised his boere musical would be sensational -- it's not, writes Adriaan Basson.
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Village awakening
The cast has been working together for three weeks and this is its first complete run-through of Feast Kakhulu! -- a "simple story".
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'Sarafina III' a hot potato
Playwright Mbongeni Ngema gets R22-million for a play about the potato boycott, writes Niren Tolsi.
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Taking plays to print
If plays stay on stage, never making their way on to the page, South Africans could lose an important aspect of their culture. But not if Robin Malan'
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Dancing on airs
Reviewer Matthew Krouse and photographer Lisa Skinner paid a visit to those exotic creatures, the Cha Cha Heels.
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Cross-cultural critique
As a nation, South Africa has long overcome cultural cringe and the need to emulate Anglo-America for artistic validation.
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