Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating: Three Satires - Softcover

Mda, Zakes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1868143775 ISBN 13: 9781868143771

Verlag: Wits University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection from one of South Africa's leading writes.
The Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is a grinding satire on materialism in which the protagonist gets his come-uppance.
You Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? is an unbridled study in grotesquerie, reflecting a belief, traceable throughout Mda's work, that government by those who inherit a revolution is almost inevitably, in the first decade or two, hijacked by the smart operators.
The Bells of Amersfoort, with its graphic portrayal of the isolation imposed by exile, picks up on the themes of the other two plays but adds to them the concept of 'healing', both of the soul and of the land, in a lyrical work which holds out more hope than do its companions in this volume. The plays are introduced by Rob Amato, who directed much of Mda's earlier work.

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Zakes Mda is an award-winning playwright, novelist, painter, composer, and filmmaker. He currently teaches at the University of Ohio.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1868143775
• ISBN 13: 9781868143771
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande