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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
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.
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 ...
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a
conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life
and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Originally premiered in
Britain at the National Theatre, London, where it won the Evening
Standard Best Play Award, Tony Kushner's Angels in America went on
to win two Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This
volume contains both Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two:
Perestroika, plus 45 pages of bonus material including a new
introduction by the playwright, a full production history, deleted
scenes, and notes on staging. It was published alongside a new
production in 2017 at the National Theatre, London, directed by
Marianne Elliott and starring Andrew Garfield, Denise Gough, Nathan
Lane, James McArdle and Russell Tovey.
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