Play Scripts

Doing Plays for a Change

Five works Maishe Maponya

August 2021 | 190 x 120 mm | 180 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-186814-242-2 | PDF: 978-1-77614-552-2 EPUB: 978-1-77614-553-9 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-554-6 Subject: Play Scripts

These five plays by one of South Africa’s foremost black playwrights were written between 1979 and 1986, a period in the country’s history marked by intense repression and escalating violence. Several of Maponya’s works fell foul of the censorship system. The collection includes The Hungry Earth, Umongikazi/The Nurse, Dirty Work, Gangsters and Jika.

You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock / Wathint’ Abafazi, Wathint’ Imbokotho

Phyllis Klotz, Thobeka Maqhutyana, Nomvula Qosha and Poppy Tsira

July 2021 | 190 x 120 mm | 120 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-720-5 | PDF: 978-1-77614-721-2 EPUB: 978-1-77614-722-9 Subjects: Play Scripts, Music, Theatre and Performing Arts

Engaging storytelling that captures the pathos of the period and of today, as the past continues to live in our present. It is the best of stylised theatre that is not dependent on elaborate sets. It is a worthy addition to South African dramatic literature and enriched by Sarah Robert’s scholarly yet accessible analysis. — Zakes Mda, author and playwright

Bafana Republic and Other Satires

A collection of monologues and revues Mike van Graan

June 2020 | 229 x 152 mm | 188 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-586-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-587-4 EPUB: 978-1-77614-638-3 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-588-1 Subjects: Play Scripts, Music, Theatre and Performing Arts

This incisive and engaging series of sketches presents a plethora of voices and perceptions dissecting contemporary South African society. It is a rich feast of theatrical material for any actor wanting to stretch their capacities and a must-buy for every drama teacher wanting to challenge their students. — Yvette Hardie, President of ASSITEJ, International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People

What Remains

A play in one act Nadia Davids With notes on the choreography by Jay Pather

is a fusion of text, dance and movement to tell a story about the unexpected uncovering of a slave burial ground in Cape Town, the archaeological dig that follows and a city haunted by the memory of slavery. When the bones emerge from the ground, everyone in the city – slave descendants, archaeologists, citizens, property developers – is forced to reckon with a history sometimes remembered, sometimes forgotten.

Loosely based on the events at Prestwich Place, What Remains forges a path between memory and magic, the uncanny and the known, waking and dreaming. Four figures – The Archaeologist, The Healer, The Dancer and The Student – move between bones and books, archives and madness, paintings and protest, as they struggle to reconcile the past with the now.

What Remains Nadia Davids

What Remains

A Play in One Act

Nadia Davids With notes on the choreography by Jay Pather

2019/07/23 10:41 October 2019 | 190 x 120 mm | 84 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-277-4 | PDF: 978-1-77614-278-1 Subjects: Play Scripts

What Remains is destined to become a South African classic. Nadia Davids’ transformative play digs up bones and reaches for the sacred. It dramatises the timeless dance between memory and ‘progress’ in a way that is also a fierce critique of the present moment. Like the best drama, it is universal because Davids roots it so precisely in the experience of her time - post-apartheid South Africa - and place: her beloved Cape Town. — Mark Gevisser, author of Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir

Dark Outsider Three plays Anthony Akerman Print: 978-1-86814-355-9 Digital formats available

Tin Bucket Drum A play Neil Coppen Print: 978-1-86814-972-8 Digital formats available

Tshepang The Third Testament Lara Foot Newton Print: 978-1-86814-415-0 Digital formats available

My Life and Valley Song Two plays Athol Fugard Print: 978-1-86814-287-3 Digital formats available

Three Plays Dream of the dog | The Girl in the Yellow Dress | The Imagined Land Craig Higginson Print: 978-1-86814-980-3 Digital formats available

At the Junction Four plays Junction Avenue Theatre Company Edited by Martin Orkin Print: 978-1-86814-264-4 Somewhere on the Border A play Anthony Akerman Print: 978-1-86814-573-7 Digital formats available

Ulwembu A play Empatheatre and The Big Brotherhood Print:978-1-77614-195-1 Digital formats available

My Children! My Africa! and selected shorter plays Athol Fugard Print: 978-1-86814-117-3

Sorrows and Rejoicing Athol Fugard Print: 978-1-86814-385-6

At This Stage Plays from post-apartheid South Africa Edited by Greg Homann Print: 978-1-86814-560-7 Digital formats available

Love, Crime and Johannesburg A musical Junction Avenue Theatre Company Print: 978-1-86814-354-2 Digital formats available

Sophiatown A play Junction Avenue Theatre Company Print: 978-1-86814-236-1 Digital formats available Die Bram Fischer Wals A play Harry Kalmer Print: 978-1-77614-005-3 Digital formats available

The Bram Fischer Waltz A play Harry Kalmer Print: 978-1-86814-974-2 Digital formats available

Nothing But the Truth John Kani Print: 978-1-86814-389-4 Digital formats available Missing A play John Kani Print: 978-1-86814-889-9 Digital formats available

And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses Four works Zakes Mda Print: 978-1-86814-222-4 Digital formats available

Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating Three satires Zakes Mda Print: 978-1-86814-377-1 Digital formats available

Zulu Love Letter A screenplay Bhekizizwe Peterson and Ramadan Suleman Print: 978-1-86814-496-9

Mooi Street and Other Moves New edition Paul Slabolepszy Print: 978-1-77614-159-3 Digital formats available Our Lady of Benoni A play Zakes Mda Print: 978-1-86814-567-6 Digital formats available

Born in the RSA Four workshopped plays Barney Simon Print: 978-1-86814-300-9

Suddenly the Storm A play Paul Slabolepszy Print: 978-1-77614-092-3 Digital formats available