Woza Albert! (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema, Barney Simon
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Plot: Satire; political
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Principal Characters: Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema, Morena, Interviewer
- Genres: Satire, Drama, Political drama
- Subjects: Exile or expatriates, Leadership, Protests or demonstrations, Religion, Violence, Oppression, South Africa or South Africans, Christ figures or saviors, Labor, Resurrection, Apartheid, Survival, Belief or doubt
- Locales: Johannesburg, South Africa
The Play
Woza Albert! is a twenty-six-scene, quick-action play, whose succession of vignettes of black life during South Africa’s apartheid period shows the absurdity of racial oppression. It also illuminates the logic of a plot in which South Africans seek the return of a savior, Morena, who fulfills the biblical prophecy that Jesus Christ will return. The play’s title means “Rise Albert,” referring to the deceased leader of the African National Congress (ANC) and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Luthuli and symbolizing biblical prophecies that the dead will rise...
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