EXCERPTS FROM 'ASINAMALI', ONSTAGE AT THE MARKET THEATRE JOHANNESBURG TILL 18 AUGUST 2013

ASINAMALI
16 Jul 2013 - 18 Aug 2013
Venue: Barney Simon Theatre at the Market Theatre
Age Restriction: 13
One of the greatest hits of the South African stage, the multi-award-winning musical drama, Asinamali!, is returning to the Market Theatre. A show of immense vitality, sadness and humour, makes for compelling theatre, mingling exhilarating dance and mime with hypnotic choral singing.
Written by Mbongeni Ngema, this is a tale of five black prisoners brought together in a South African prison. Each of these men have a story, as one gleefully tells of his affair with his white master`s wife; another lustily acts out the life of his hero, an urban con-man. Others tell of their frustrating, humiliating search for work permits. Others speak of their involvement with Dube`s movement, yet all spit out their contempt for the police informers who contributed to his death.
Directed by Market Theatre Laboratory graduate, Prince Lamla of "Woza Albert"!, this classic South African play was inspired by events that surrounded the 1983 rent strike in the Lamontville township, led by the martyred activist Msizi Dube, in which the rallying cry was `Asinamali!` - which is Zulu for ``We have no money!`` The play has since gone on to travel widely internationally and is one of the most important plays from apartheid South Africa.

For more information please visit our website, www.markettheatre.co.za or Tel: 011-832 1641 or book via Computicket.

Excerpts filmed by Competent Artistes, www.competentartistes.tv.