Have you seen Zandile?

Gcina Mhlophe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of KwaZulu-Natal Press

Published:30th Nov '02

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Have you seen Zandile? cover

Gcina Mhlophe's writing is published all over the world, and has been translated into German, French, Italian, Swahili and Japanese. Her honours include: BBC Africa Service Award for Radio Drama, The Fringer First Award at Edinburgh Festival, Joseph Jefferson Award in Chicago, OBBIE in New York, Honorary Doctorates from London Open University and University of Natal in South Africa.

Recounts the personal story of Zandile, who is snatched away from her grandmother's loving care and taken to live with her matriarchal family. This play offers a window on the 1960s world it depicts, with issues of white dominance, and rural hardship.Have You Seen Zandile? is a wonderful South African resource, still as fresh and absorbing as when it was first written. Perfectly scripted, and with Gcina Mhlophe’s sure instinct for stagecraft, it recounts the very personal story of Zandile, who is snatched away from her grandmother’s loving care and taken to live with her matriarchal family in rural Transkei. Moving, funny and convincing, full of Zandile’s shrewd, youthful insights, the play offers an illuminating window onto the 1960s world that it depicts, with its issues of white dominance, rural hardship and black female repression.

Have You Seen Zandile? is already an established favourite in performance circles, and is fast becoming a South African classic.

ISBN: 9781869140021

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80 pages