I See You by Mongiwekhaya
I SEE YOU (English) NGIYAKUBONA (Zulu) EK SIEN JOU (Afrikaans) NDIYAKUBONA (Xhosa) I don’t need your sorries white boy, yes. You heard right. You know white people think we are the same? We both look black. But only one of us is black . . . Speak to me in your mother-tongue and I will let you go. Post-Apartheid South Africa, after dark. Ben meets Skinn for a night out. But the party is interrupted by the police. Ben, a young student who doesn’t know his own history, is accused of a crime he didn’t commit. And Officer Buthelezi, a former freedom fighter, can’t let it go. Based on a real encounter. This programme text was published to coincide with the world premiere of the play at the Royal Court Theatre, Upstairs, on 25 February 2016.
Mongiwekhaya is a writer, performer and director with Handspring Puppet Company and currently performing in the international tour of Ubu And The Truth Commission. Previous work includes Kagg’an Dreams (Handspring Trust); Fallen, The Feather Collector (Grahamstown Festival). He is currently Artist in Residence for Center for Humanities Research (CHR) at the Univeristy of Western Cape and a member of the newly formed SA Playriot group.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781474288118 |
| ISBN 10 | 1474288111 |
| Titel | I See You |
| Autor | Mongiwekhaya |
| Serie | Modern Plays |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2016-02-25 |
| Seitenanzahl | 96 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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