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'A satire played with devastating energy in a brilliantly witty staging.' The Guardian 'The most politically potent show ever staged in South Africa.' The Observer
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Woza Albert! is based on one dazzlingly simple idea - that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ should take place in present-day South Africa. This brilliant two-man show from the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, took the Edinburgh Festival then London by storm in September 1982, playing to standing ovations every night. It was also seen in Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia and twice on BBC TV. This edition contains a new introduction by Yvette Hutchison
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By the time Woza Albert is finished, there is a celebratory series of resurections, and one comes to realize that this is the opposite of a play like Waiting for Godot or The Bald Soprano: it is a play that emphasizes the community--the necessity of community--in an oppressive modern culture. The oppressors are the absurd ones, they read out of Becket, but the hereos Morena, Zulu Boy, and all the victims of arpartheid in general are portrayed as knowing what they're doing. They react against the bourgeouis prejudice and taste that created a system in which corruption and lechery rule. They find and make beauty, if only for a moment, in something natural, out of something that came to them only by chance. In so much, the play emphasizes the creative principle over the destructive one, the play recognizes the sincerity of those eeking out a living and not the barking of those without any discernable purpose for living, and this play, in short, does put the fun back in Christian Fundalmentalism.
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I would love to see this performed
11 April 2004
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I was impressed with the ingenuity of the author and would love to see this performed because you read it and wonder how so much can be said with only two actors. Of all the plays I read for my theater class this year, this one was my favorite(...).
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