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Zakes Mda

ZAKES MDA

  (1948 - )
Nationality:    South African
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Zakes Mda, legally Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (b. 1948), is a South African novelist, poet and playwright. He has won major South African and British literary awards for his novels and plays.
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below is a list of Zakes Mda's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         And the Girls In their Sunday Dresses         At Dawn We Sing         Dark Voices Ring         Dead End         Hill, The         Joys Of War         Our Lady Of Benoni         Road, The         Smouldering         We Shall Sing For the Fatherland

And the Girls In their Sunday Dresses

Synopsis:
And the Girls In their Sunday Dresses is the story of two characters, the Woman and the Lady, who meet during a long wait in a queue to buy cheap rice. the Woman, an uncomplicated domestic worker, has brought her chair with her; the Lady, a retired prostitute, who considers herself a sophisticated woman of the world, has brought her lunch. the women discover they have more in common than initially meets the eye. As they wait, they share their respective stories and heartbreaks, and resolve to stop waiting and seize control of their lives. Finely balanced Dramatic and comic moments encourage us to consider how to respond to the human dilEmmas facing us all.

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Adapted from the short story by Zakes Mda Directed by Princess Mhlongo

1st Produced:
Market Theatre, Johsnnesburg    -

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1st Published:
in And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses, Witwatersrand University Press, Johhanesburg, 1993   -

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At Dawn We Sing

Synopsis:
revisits the absurdist elements of the Road and questions the sacrifice of the artist's integrity to materialistic capitalism

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Dark Voices Ring

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in the Plays of Zakes Mda, Ravan Press, Johhanesburg, 1990   -

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Dead End

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1st Produced:
Johhanesburg    1979

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1st Published:
in the Plays of Zakes Mda, Ravan Press, Johhanesburg, 1990   -

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Hill, The

Synopsis:
racial segregation through specific themes : self-delusion and moral turpitude

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in the Plays of Zakes Mda, Ravan Press, Johhanesburg, 1990   -

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Joys Of War

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in And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses, Witwatersrand University Press, Johhanesburg, 1993   -

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Our Lady Of Benoni

Our Lady Of Benoni
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Wits University Press 2012   978-1868145676

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Road, The

Synopsis:
Koekemoer and Labourer engage in paralllel dialectics with no real understanding of each other, yet their one moment of convergence and understanding over Lucy ends in tragedy.

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-    1984

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in the Plays of Zakes Mda, Ravan Press, Johhanesburg, 1990   -

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Smouldering

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furthers the debate on police harassment, class tensions and the choice between passive resistance and armed struggle in black communities

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We Shall Sing For the Fatherland

We Shall Sing For the Fatherland
investigates neocolonialism in Independent African countries

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1st Produced:
-    1978

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1st Published:
Ravan Press, Johhanesburg, 1980   978-0865791978-

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