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Andrew Whaley

ANDREW WHALEY

  
Nationality:    Zimbabwean
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Andrew Whaley was in the forefront of post-independent Zimbabwean dramatists, with plays like The Nyoka Tree, Platform 5, and Fiasco, as well as multi-media performances like Human Tales, Meteoric Trails, and screenplays: Yellow Card, More Time, Everyones Child. After moving to South Africa in 2001 he developed radio and television drama all over Africa including the hugely popular Swahili series, Siri ya Mtungi, and co-produced an African football documentary, Black Stars: An African Odyssey for Channel 4, UK. The BBC broadcast his plays, Great Escape and Banished: Mugabe of Zimbabwe. He directed There Is No Canaan On Earth for BBC Spice Taxi. He wrote a book on South African pop diva, Brenda Fassie, and co-authored The Vuvuzela Revolution: Anatomy of South Africas 2010 World Cup.

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

         Fiasco         Great Escape         Human Tales         Meteoric Trails         Nyoka Tree, The         Platform 5         Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, The

Fiasco

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Great Escape

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set in Zimbabe in 2005, and written in response to the Mugabe government's Operation Murambatsvina, in which thousands of illegally built dwellings were demolished, making thousands homeless

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Human Tales

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Meteoric Trails

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Nyoka Tree, The

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Platform 5

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Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, The

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Fiasco! Freedom Fighter. Fiction, fake or fact. Comrade Fiasco. The man who came out of a cave, seven years after the fact of independence, the memories of war still clinging to his skull like spoils. Zimbabwe, 1986. Chidhina, Febi and Jungle are being held in prison after a brawl. A mysterious figure, Fiasco, appears in their cell claiming to be a freedom fighter who has spent many years hiding in a mountain cave, unaware Zimbabwe is finally free from British colonial rule. As the cellmates attempt to piece together Fiasco's confused experience of the war and journey through his extraordinary story, they must discover if he's really who he claims to be and confront their own memories of the struggle to ask: what is the true value of liberation?

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