Drama Studies opens 2025 with the South African play, Woza Albert! (1981), written by Mbongeni Ngema with Percy Mtwa and Barney Simon. A highly satiric play set in Apartheid South Africa, Woza Albert! imagines the second coming of Christ, who unexpectedly appears to two black South Africans trying to exist as best as they could under the inhumane strictures of the apartheid system. The play unfolds to challenge and subvert the political establishment. Although written in 1981, it already ranks among South African theatre classics for the way it captures the enduring tenacity of the human spirit against relentless sadism of st
Drama Studies opens 2025 with the South African play, Woza Albert! (1981), written by Mbongeni Ngema with Percy Mtwa and Barney Simon. A highly satiric play set in Apartheid South Africa, Woza Albert! imagines the second coming of Christ, who unexpectedly appears to two black South Africans trying to exist as best as they could under the inhumane strictures of the apartheid system. The play unfolds to challenge and subvert the political establishment. Although written in 1981, it already ranks among South African theatre classics for the way it captures the enduring tenacity of the human spirit against relentless sadism of st