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Article: `Asinamali!' blisters apartheid's cruelty // S. Africa drama illuminated by its energy and cause
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 6, 1986
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Asinamali!
With Solomzi Bhisholo, Thami Cele, Bongani Hlophe, Bheki Mgadi and
Boy Ngema.
A play written and directed by Mbongeni Ngema. With lighting by
Mannie Manim. Presented by the Market Theater Company of South
Africa at the Getz Theater, 62 E. 11th St., 853-0505, through May 17.
Five young black actors with sleek, shaved heads. Five wooden
chairs. And enough high-octane energy to light up every township
between Cape Town and Johannesburg for a millenium. Those are the
basic elements in Mbongeni Ngema's "Asinamali!," the radiant and
passionately performed production of the Market Theater Company of
South Africa that opened last night at the Getz Theater.
Of course, it is not just ...