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Robin Malan: The boy who walked into the world

This play is a stage adaptation of the novel The Story of Lucky Simelane (see below). Included in this volume are notes for teachers and community directors on presenting the play, as well as activity exercises for students.

ISBN 978 -0-620-388733-0 / 97806203887330

Playscript Series No. 1
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A young man walks into the police station of a small country town. Lucky has been brought up in a small rural black community. But is he really black? ... Issues of identity and belonging crowd in on Lucky, who is thrown off balance by the publicity surrounding him, yet enjoys the attention and sudden ‘celebrity’ this brings. In the end, who is Lucky? And can Lucky cope with being Lucky?

The novel The Story of Lucky Simelane is published by Jacana Media





















Karen Jeynes: Everybody Else (is fucking perfect)

Karen Jeynes's play won the Best Writer Award, the Audience Award and the Award for Best Director in the 2005 NLDTF/PANSA Contemporary Theatre Festival (Comedy). Its first performance in the Sanlam Studio of the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town took place on 7 February 2007.

This volume serves as both programme for that presentation and as complete text of the play.

ISBN 978-0-620-38067-6 / 9780620380676

Playscript Series No. 2
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Juliet Jenkin: The Boy Who Fell from the Roof

Part of the Artscape New Writing Programme

Playwright Juliet Jenkin deftly enters the world of the teenage pysche in this story of a remarkable friendship, that between Simon and Georgina; as well as Simonb's life-shifting encounter with a post-graduate mathematics student, Leonard, with whom he falls in love.

Nominated for Best Play at the Dublin Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival 2006.

ISBN 978-0-620-38958-7 / 9780620389587

Playscript Series No. 3
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Omphile Molusi: Itsoseng and For the Right Reasons



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Itsoseng is a play for one actor, exploring the fortunes and personalities of a South African township before and after the 'miracle' of the 'new democracy' of 1994.

For the Right Reasons is a short play written especially for schools about the aspirations and frustrations of ex-township students who now live in the suburbs, and township students who travel by train each day to attend school in the suburbs.

Omphile Molusi was the first recipient of the Brett Goldin Bursary Award in 2007. He spent a month working with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. In this volume he writes about his time there.


Itsoseng has been presented in 2008 at the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town, the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, the King Dome Pleasance Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival, the Soho Theatre in London, and the Everyman Palace Theatre in Cork, Ireland.

ISBN 9780620406727

Playscript Series No. 4
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Nadia Davids: Cissie

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'The play powerfully conveys the magnitude of the events of the times in which Cissie Gool lived, the significance of what she achieved as a political leader and as a woman, and the impact of her ability to galvanise people in unpredented ways. ... The weaving of documentary fim and theatrical styles invites a rich interplay of fact, fiction, dialogue and character. At times the script captures breathtaking tragicomic moments ...' - Theresa Edlmann, Cue, Grahamstown, 27 June 2008.

Cissie was first presented by the Baxter Theatre Centre and Nadia Davids in association with the National Arts Festival at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, 3-5 July 2008; and then enjoyed a season at the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town, 9-26 July 2008.

ISBN 978-0-620-41389-3 / 9780620413893

Playscript Series No. 5
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