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Back by popular demand! Joburg Theatre Annual Setwork in partnership with the City of Ekurhuleni Sports, Recreation, Arts and Cultural (SRAC) 2023 is proud to present Woza Albert! by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon. Woza Albert! Remains one of the most vibrant examples of satirical anti-apartheid South African Theatre. It demonstrates innovation and creativity during a seminal period of theatre in this country.
Woza Albert! Is still a relevant story today; a school set-work in the South African GDE & IEB school curriculum.
The theatre piece is a great tool for audience development while assisting schools with their school curriculum. The play portrays so much truth and clarifies a simple approach to the human condition, therefore makes it relevant to South Africa.
The play is a political satire that imagines the second coming of Christ in apartheid-era South Africa. It looks at a wide range of characters in South Africa at the beginning of the 1980s and attacks the pass laws that prevented Black people from moving freely at the time. The production uses the metaphor of Morena (Jesus) to show what would happen if he came back to South Africa during apartheid. Would he like what he saw? And if he saw the atrocities of the time then why would he not do anything about them?
Joburg Theatre and City of Ekurhuleni invites the schools and public audiences to witness this groundbreaking classic production starring Hamilton Dlamini and Thulani Mtsweni.
