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John Kani

JOHN KANI

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

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

         Island, The         Nothing But the Truth         Sizwe Banzi Is Dead

Island, The

Synopsis:
two political prisoners in the Robben Island maximum security prison perform lengthy backbreaking mimes

Notes:
written with John Kani And Winston Ntshona, Aka Die Hodoshe Span (Cape Town, 1973)

1st Produced:
Cape Town    1973

Organisations:
Market Theatre Company, Johannesburg

1st Published:
in "Statements", Oxford University Press, London, 1974   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play in 4 scenes

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Nothing But the Truth

Nothing But the Truth
the death of an estranged brother forces ageing librarian Sipho Makava, along with his daughter and the niece he has never met, to confront the betrayals,jealousies and animosities of the past, both political and personal.
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Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
UK Arts International

1st Published:
Wits University Press 2003   978-1868143894

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sizwe Banzi Is Dead

Synopsis:
Neil Bartlett's latest version by no means gives us the whole novel, it goes lickety-split for the essentials: the Manichean struggle between good and evil, the nightmarish meloDrama, the work's inherent theatricality the Guardian

Notes:
written with John Kani And Winston Ntshona

1st Produced:
the Space, Cape Town    1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Plays and Players", London, November, 1973   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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