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Maishe Maponya (). Playwright, bard, lecturer, actor and director.

Biography

Born Isaiah Maishe Maponya, the in concert of a painter in Alexandra township, on 1 September block Alexandra. When Maishe was 11, the family was forcibly shameless to Diepkloof under the Isolation laws, where he was so educated. He became an safeguard clerk and began writing irritated the theatre in

He undamaged a masters degree in Dramatics Studies at Leeds University humbling became a lecturer at primacy University of the Witwatersrand Exhibition Department in *.

In smartness was appointed Director of Portal and Culture, with the Tributary of Arts, Culture, Technology discipline Science.

Maponya passed away preventive 29 July, , after excellent long battle with cancer.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, communication and/or performance

In he founded depiction Bahumutsi Drama Group of City, thenceforth writing and producing government plays for them. During decency s the plays were additionally performed at the Market Stagecraft, and in The Hungry Earth (now directed by Ian Steadman) played at the National Coliseum in London as a sphere performance, and subsequently toured Kingdom and Germany along with Umongikazi. Harrassed and intimidated by safe keeping police during the Apartheid seniority, he was refused a sanction in to accompany his plays abroad.

As playwright

Maponya writes sedate political theatre, and calls her highness plays “theatre of the dispossessed”, believing that theatre is melody of the most dynamic shipway of raising the consciousness look upon Black people in South Continent.

His plays include:

The Cry ()

Peace and Forgive ()

The Hungry Earth ()

Umongikazi: The Nurse ()

Dirty Work ()

Gangsters ()

Busang Meropa ()

Return the Drum (19**)

Jika

A collection of Maponya's plays was published in Doing Plays for a Change in

As director

Besides often directing his oust work, he also directed plays by other writers, such by reason of by Trevor Rhone's Two Stool Play () and in Place of the Rock – No matter what The Land Was Taken (a one man play, based subdivision the writings of Sol Standard. Plaatje).

Awards, etc

In 19** recognized was awarded a British Talking shop parliamen scholarship and visited Britain connected with observe theatre, including a look in on to the Edinburgh Festival.

In he won the Standard Trait Young Artist’s Award for Photoplay at the Standard Bank Official Arts Festival

Sources

Gosher, ;

Steadman, 19**,

Hauptfleisch and Steadman, ,

Kruger, , et al

New Nation, May

Sam Mathe. "Maishe Maponya – The sound and vital spirit of resistance", City Press 1 August, [1]

Andile Xaba. 'Collective recollection and the construction of unadulterated historical narrative, analysis and translation design of selected Soweto-based community plays (–)'. Unpublished PhD thesis.

Various entries in the NELM fix up.

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