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KATE STAFFORD
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And Crocodiles Are Hungry At NightAnd Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night
Synopsis:
"Tell the police. But if the police do nothing, I put you above the police. And crocodiles are hungry at night" . Malawi in the 1980s was a dangerous place. People disappeared. Even President Banda's cabinet were not safe. Banda ordered his Young Pioneers to act against anyone who opposed the president. And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night is an adaptation of award-winning poet Jack Mapanje's prison memoir of the same name. In 1987, Jack Mapanje, then a little-known academic, linguist and poet, was imprisoned without charge at Mikuyu prison in Malawi. Despite an international outcry led by Amnesty International and supported by many writers and artists including Wole Soyinka, Harold Pinter and Ronald Harwood, he remained there for 3 years, 7 months, 16 days and more than 12 hours. He was never told why. This is his story. It is a story bursting with hope and humour, and the extraordinary people who survived President Hastings Kamuzu Banda's attempts to silence his opponents. Living with the threat of death by a car accident' or being thrown into the crocodile-infested Shire River, Jack Mapanje and his fellow prisoners of conscience survived the dreadful conditions with a spirit of optimism and humanity, which is both uplifting and extraordinary. Everything in this play is true.
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adapted and directed by Kate Stafford from the prison memoir by the acclaimed writer Jack Mapanje
1st Produced:
The Africa Centre, Covent Garden, London 31 Jul 2012
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Bilimankhwe Arts
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