Full Description
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.
Contents
Scene One Zandile and Bongi
Scene Two Grandmother (Gogo) at Home
Scene Three Zandile's Life with Gogo
Scene Four(a) Zandile Teaches Flowers
Scene Four(b) Zandile with Gogo in the Garden
Scene Five The White Car Comes for Zandile
Scene Six Gogo Discovers Zandile is Gone
Scene Seven Gogo Searches for Zandile and Zandile's Letter to Gogo
Scene Eight Zandile with Mother in the Field
Scene Nine Zandi and Lindi Swim in the River
Scene Ten Zandile Gets to Know her Mother
Scene Eleven Lindiwe Goes to Johannesburg
Scene Twelve Praise Poetry and Gogo's Entrance
Scene Thirteen Zandile and Lindiwe Prepare for the Farewell Party
Scene Fourteen Zandile Finds Gogo's Suitcase
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