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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays
South Africa, 2019. Twenty-five years since the first post-apartheid
democratic elections, two men from contrasting walks of life are thrust
together to reflect on a quarter-century of change. Jack Morris is a
celebrated classical actor who has just been given both a
career-defining role and a life-changing diagnosis. Besides his age,
Jack has seemingly little in common with his at-home nurse Lunga
Kunene, but the two men soon discover their shared passion for
Shakespeare, which ignites this ‘rich, raw and shattering head-to-head’
(The Times).
Written by South African actor, activist and playwright John Kani, this
refreshingly funny and vital new play premiered in the Swan Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon in 2019, before transferring to the Ambassadors
Theatre in London. A co-production with the Fugard Theatre, it
was directed by Janice Honeyman with moving performances from Antony
Sher and John Kani.
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Hamlet
(Paperback, Annotated edition)
William Shakespeare; Introduction by Cedric Watts; Notes by Cedric Watts; Edited by Cedric Watts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.,
Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth
Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of
William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of
recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also
the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature.
First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of
revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates
with introspection, its melancholy with humour, and its subtlety
with spectacle. The Prince, Hamlet himself, is depicted as a
complex, divided, introspective character. His reflections on
death, morality and the very status of human beings make him 'the
first modern man'. Countless stage productions and numerous
adaptations for the cinema and television have demonstrated the
continuing cultural relevance of this vivid, enigmatic, profound
and engrossing drama.
Drie hopies grond van drie grafte en die drie mense aan wie die
grafte behoort: Vytjie, Basjan en Gulu. Elkeen moet vertel hoe hy
of sy aan sy dood gekom het. Trien is die sameroeper van hierdie
byeenkoms na die dood. Sy behartig die post mortem. Hoe het dit
gebeur dat haar man, haar huiswerker en plaaswerker dood is? In
hierdie drama deur Pieter Fourie moet Basjan, Vytjie en Gulu aan
Trien vertel en demonstreer wat gelei het tot hul dood. Dit word
duidelik dat Trien se pienk pilletjies haar blind gemaak het vir
die dinge wat rondom haar gebeur ...
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