Out of Boundsby Rajesh Gopie
Rajesh Gopie, Durban-born actor and writer, takes us into the life and times of a South African Indian family. He brings to life some 28 characters in this thought-provoking play that both wounds and heals the human heart and ultimately celebrates family - here and everywhere.
ISBN 9780 620 41648 1 / 9780620416481
Playscript Series
No. 6
Dalliances
by Pieter Jacobs
Janet is looking for love. Leo and Janet are friends. Ken is involved with Andy. When Ken meets Leo in a supermarket, the lives of these four characters intersect with extraordinary results. Dalliances is a complex moral tale reflecting a world in which everything is possible but ...
Dalliances won five awards and nominations at the fifth International Dublic Gay Theatre Festival in 2008.
ISBN 978-0-620-42031-0 / 9780620420310
Playscript Series
No. 7
Sister Breyani
by Malika Ndlovu
What happens when five sisters get together over a weekend for the first time in three years, lugging with them all the baggage which siblings carry? Is this a recipe for disaster or could it contain all the ingredients for a lovely pot of breyani?
ISBN 978-0-620-43788-2 / 9780620437882
Playscript Series
No. 8
MacBeki
by Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys has taken his inspiration from William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth and structured a satirical play around it, with the focus on a familiar local political setting, enriched by many laughs. Unlike Shakespeare, Pieter-Dirk Uys does not spill any blood in his play. He spills the beans. He challenged poltical correctness and sycophantic denialism. He makes us laugh at the transparency of the ruling elite who lie to protect themselves at all costs and so dig an ever-deeper trench in which they inevitably will fall. MacBeki is a comedy. It is a farce to be reckoned with.
ISBN 978-0-620-43621-2 / 9780620436212
Published by Peninsula in association with Junkets Publisher
The Return
by Fatima Dike
What happens in a settled parental home in Langa in the Western Cape when son Buntu returns after eighteen years in the United States? Will his African American wife find common ground with Mama and Tata? Will Buntu find relief from the nightmares troubling him? The play explores both the humour and the tragic reality of a South African family in this time of varying and challenging transitions.
ISBN 9780 620 44290 9 / 9780620442909
Playscript Series
No. 9
The Crossing and The Bicycle Thiefby Jonathan Khumbulani Nkala
A young man finds himself in a situation that seems hopeless – he sees no future for himself in a country on the edge of disintegration. The young man was Jonathan Khumbulani Nkala, and the country was Zimbabwe. This solo presentation tells the story of what he decided to do in order to achieve his objective, which was ‘life in abundance’. The Bicycle Thief is also included in this volume.
ISBN 9780 620 44291 6 / 9780620442916
Playscript Series
No. 10
Green Man Flashing by Mike van Graan
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It is six weeks before the country’s second elections in 1999. Gabby Anderson, a white personal assistant, alleges she has been raped … by her boss, a black, high-profile government minister with an impeccable anti-apartheid struggle record. Sent to persuade her not to go through with the charges is Gabby’s former husband, Aaron Matshoba, the party’s major trouble-shooter.
How do past tensions between Aaron and Gabby affect the situation? What does Inspector Abrahams know that will impact on Gabby’s attitude? How will her lawyer and long-time friend Anna advise Gabby, and why? What will Gabby be offered in exchange for dropping the charges? What will she decide?
Green Man Flashing is a fast-paced political thriller that takes on the challenge of deep moral and political questions for which there are no ready answers, and certainly no easy ones.
In a remarkable instance of life imitating art, the events depicted in the play were to become real-life drama in all the South African news media.
After Athol Fugard’s early work, Mike van Graan is South Africa’s finest working playwright.
ISBN 978-0-620-45825-2 / 9780620458252
Playscript Series
No. 11
Lord Hamlettext by William Shakespeare
collaged by Robin Malan
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This collage puts onstage one actor speaking the words of only one character, Hamlet, from Shakespeare’s play of the same name.
So here we have Hamlet crystallised, Hamlet himself, by himself, being himself, speaking himself, revealing himself, through the medium of one particular actor, guided by one particular director, with one particular compiler shadowly in the background.
The question then for you, as audience, as reader, is: Whose Hamlet is this? Shakespeare’s? The actor’s? The director’s? The compiler’s? Yours?
Robin Malan has book-ended his collage with an Introduction that examines some British and South African productio
ns of Hamlet; then some views on the character by actors and writers; as well as some interesting facts and figures about the play and the character.
ISBN 978-0-620-45210-6 / 9780620452106
Playscript Series
No. 12
Iago's Last Dance
by Mike van Graan
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Iago's Last Dance is a trilogy of betrayal and vengeance, set against the backdrop of South Africa's HIV/Aids pandemic. Each play has a different set of three characters, to be played by the same three actors. Each title bears the initial letter that spells out 'HIV': Heartbreak Medea, Iago's Last Dance and Valiant Spartacus.
ISBN 978-0-620-45826-9 / 9780620458269
Playscript Series
No. 13
London Road
by Nicholas Spagnoletti
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Stella is a Nigerian immigrant who lives in Sea Point in dodgy circumstances until ... enter Rosa.
'... a mature and touching exploration of friendship between an elderly Jewish woman and her Nigerian neighbour.' - Marianne Thamm
ISBN 978-0-620-45827-6 / 9780620458276
Playscript Series
No. 14
The Quiet Violence of Dreams
from the novel by K Sello Duiker
adapted for the stage by Ashraf Johaardien
The play traces the turbulent life of a young graduate adrift in an unwelcoming world, searching for friendship.
'... Tshepo finds himself, much as the nation-state, born of violence, violation and male-directed brutality.' - Sam Raditlhalo
ISBN 978-0-620-48153-3 / 9780620481533
Plyscript Series
No. 15
The Train Driver
by Athol Fugard
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Published by The Fugard Theatre in association with Junkets Publisher
ISBN 978-0-9869750-0-4 / 9780986975004
