Interplay: A Collection Of South African Plays

Author: Ronnie GovenderPublisher: Manx; ISBN 9781919690971; A5, 208 pages; 2006. New booksThe plays in this book include: 
Beyond Calvary / Swami / The Lahnees Pleasure /  At the Edge (Brothers of the Spirit; At the Edge; Pawpaw; Over my dead body) / Blossoms from the bough / Your own dog wont bite you  / 1949 / The Incomplete Human Being / Lala phansi / Sarees, bangles and beads / In their places. ....Some critics have categorised my work as being political. The prevailing wisdom of the times had it that whatever the dramatic or literary merits of a play were, it had to be consigned to the scrap-heap of one-dimensional 'protest' theatre if it portrayed a different political reality.Life does not exist in a vacuum. There is a constant interaction, a seeking out of harmony, constant choices. Politics is an integral part of such a seeking out. This is different from the dirty, parochial politics of personal power-seeking opportunists and right-wing demagogues. As much as it may deal with the vagaries of human nature or the human condition, if a play is to be a truly three-dimensional reflection of life, it cannot ignore the impact of socio-economic conditions on the lives of people....The beauty of this collection is that the plays cannot be cast in a convenient mould. They can be represented as Janus-faced: they look back, reviewing the repressive past, and simultaneously look forward to a future envisaged with varying degrees of optimism. Govender takes stock in these plays of his past and present in order to reconsider his own subject position and writerly roles beyond the frontier of resistance.Ronnie Govender won the coveted Commonwealth Writers Prize for 'At the Edge: and other Cato Manor stories' in the category 'best first book' in 1997.Multiple copies in stock.* Please add R67 to standard shipping charge, for shipping to outlying (not main) centres in SA, for courier delivery service.
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