Information packet for the national spring tour (January-April 1983) of "For Better Not For Worse" by South African playwright Selaelo Maredi. The play is a political comedy of hope and struggle for South Africa's future that places lives of people in the crucible of the liberation struggle to end apartheid. The packet includes biographies of Selaelo Maredi and Seth Sibanda and newspaper articles including "Young audience involved by African's pay" by Jack Dawson, and "For better, not for worse" by Clifton Joseph. The playwright Maredi was born in Sophiatown, one of Johannesburg's oldest ghettos; he and his family were "removed from their homes by policemen and bulldozers, because Sophiatown...
Information packet for the national spring tour (January-April 1983) of "For Better Not For Worse" by South African playwright Selaelo Maredi. The play is a political comedy of hope and struggle for South Africa's future that places lives of people in the crucible of the liberation struggle to end apartheid. The packet includes biographies of Selaelo Maredi and Seth Sibanda and newspaper articles including "Young audience involved by African's pay" by Jack Dawson, and "For better, not for worse" by Clifton Joseph. The playwright Maredi was born in Sophiatown, one of Johannesburg's oldest ghettos; he and his family were "removed from their homes by policemen and bulldozers, because Sophiatown had become attractive to the White community." The packet mentions other plays, including A Little Education Is Dangerous, It's My Blackness They Hate Not Me, Prosecution, Mboni, Crossroads, Zzzip, Uhlanga, Smallboy, Survival, Homeland, Isintu, The Shield, Vanquish, Melodi, How Long, and Poppie Nongena. It also mentions apartheid, Hugh Masekela, the South African Youth Club National Theatre, Black political consciousness, the Massachusetts House of Representatives, human rights, Alexandra Township, influx control, Rob Mshengu, the Space Theatre, the West Coast, off-Broadway, and the Music Lenox Theatre Arts Group Center. [Note: This item probably was sent out with the October 1983 issue of the Student Anti-Apartheid Newsletter published by the American Committee on Africa, available on this website.]
