And the girls in their Sunday dresses : four works / Zakes Mda.
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TextPublisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 1993Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781868146413 (e-book)Subject(s): Literature | Plays, playscriptsGenre/Form: Online access: Open e-book Summary: Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and a child share a last loving waltz; a cynical, disabled gangster learns humanity from a committed social worker, and a young girl finds her missing father and her role in the political struggle. This collection of stage plays, one radio play and a cinepoem, captures the essence of Zakes Mdas method as a dramatist- a slow but intimate process of revelation (on the part of the characters). It is an artistic cooperation of the most pleasurable kind.
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Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and a child share a last loving waltz; a cynical, disabled gangster learns humanity from a committed social worker, and a young girl finds her missing father and her role in the political struggle. This collection of stage plays, one radio play and a cinepoem, captures the essence of Zakes Mdas method as a dramatist- a slow but intimate process of revelation (on the part of the characters). It is an artistic cooperation of the most pleasurable kind.
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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