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Phillip Dikotla

PHILLIP DIKOTLA

  
Nationality:    South African
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Phillip Dikotla's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Phillip Dikotla's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Around-the-Globe Chain Play         Skierlik

Around-the-Globe Chain Play

Synopsis:
Starting and ending in NYC, a play will be written as it travels around the world making 15 stops with playwrights from across the globe. Each playwright will contribute the next one to four pages of text, moving the plot forward from where the previous playwright left off. The reading will be followed by a World Theatre Day Reception where a number of NYC theatre luminaries will read the International Theatre Institutes World Theatre Day Message that will be written this year by South African playwright, designer, director, and installation-maker, Brett Bailey.

Notes:
The playwrights include Lisa Kron (USA, NYC), Aditi Kapil (USA, Minneapolis), Nicolas Billon (Canada), Luz Estrada (Colombia), Thomas Sainsbury (New Zealand), Nick Yu (China), Anuvab Pal (India), Oded Liphshiz (Israel), Lily Bevan (United Kingdom), Nina Mitrovic (Croatia), Phillip M Dikotla (South Africa), Amy Conroy (Ireland), Lana Nasser (The Netherlands), Sol Rodríguez Seoane (Argentina), and Chisa Hutchinson (USA, NYC).

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Genre:
staged reading

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Skierlik

Synopsis:
The informal settlement of Skierlik is about to be demolished after a white supremacist has devastated the community during a shooting spree that killed a woman called Anna and her daughter, Elizabeth. Anna's husband, Thomas, is undertaking a journey back to Skierlik to fetch the spirits of his deceased family and move them to their new home. But first he has to deal with what made him leave Skierlik in the first place. Inspired by a true South African event.

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1st Produced:
Baxter Theatre Centre, University Of Cape Town, South Africa    04 Jun 2013

Organisations:
Zabalaza Theatre Festival

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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