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Matsemela Manaka

MATSEMELA MANAKA  (1956 - )

 Nationality:    South african
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Literary Agent:    PEN  


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

 Children Of Asazi         Egoli, City Of Gold         Goree         Horn, The         Imbumba (Unity)         Pula (Rain!)         Vuka

Children Of Asazi

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1st Produced:
Soweto    1985

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Woza Africa! An Anthology Of South African Plays" published by G Braziller 1986   -

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Egoli, City Of Gold

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1st Produced:
Soweto    1979

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Soyinkwa-Ravan, Johannesburg, 1979   -

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Goree

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music by Motsumi Makhene

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Soweto    1985

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Horn, The

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Soweto    1978

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Imbumba (Unity)

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tells of a prison farm where men are made to work like slaves. It's message? That the Black slave driver may become a freedom fighter
- Ros asquith, City Limits

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Soweto    -

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One act

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Pula (Rain!)

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a balletic and sonorous mix of mime songs and text about rural famine and urban low life that encompasses the ritual of the rain dance with the comedy of a Johannesburg shebeen.
- Ros asquith, City Limits

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1st Produced:
Soweto    1982

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1st Published:
in "Market Plays", ad. Donker, Johannesburg, 1986   -

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Vuka

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1st Produced:
Upstream, London    1982

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Sojikwa Th, Soweto

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Play/Drama

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