Confused Mhlaba: a play in nine scenes by 
Somewhere on the Border by
Each word is like a razor wire pulled across the soul." --Leon van Nierop, Artslink Somewhere on the Border was written by Anthony Akerman while in exile more than two decades ago.
Woza Albert! by
Woza Albert!is based on one dazzlingly simple idea - that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ should take place in present-day South Africa. This brilliant two-man show from the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, took the Edinburgh Festival then London by storm in September 1982, playing to standing ovations every night. It was also seen in Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia and twice on BBC TV. 'A satire played with devastating energy in a brilliantly witty staging.' Guardian 'The most politically potent show ever staged in South Africa.' Observer This edition contains a new introduction by Yvette Hutchison
Mooi Street and Other Moves by
Under the oaks.--Over the hill--Boo to the moon--Smallholding--Mooi Street moves--The return of Elvis du Pisanie
Sophiatown by
Sophiatown was the "Chicago of South Africa," a vibrant community that produced not only gangsters and shebeen queens but leading journalists, writers, musicians and politicians, and gave urban African culture its rhythm and style. This play, based on the life history of Sophiatown, opened at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg in February 1986 to great acclaim. The play won the AA Life Vita Award for Playwright of the Year 1985/86. This new edition of the play includes an introduction which sets the work in its historical context.
South Africa Plays by
This multi-ethnic volume of five plays looks at the many problems facing South Africa. The stories include Anthony Akerman's Somewhere on the Border, an anti-war play dealing with the invasion of Angola; The Hungry Earth by Maishe Maponya, which dramatises black disabilities and the will to liberation; Susan Pam's Curl Up and Dye, a story about five women in a hair salon who find the divisions of apartheid stronger than their common interests; Paul Slabolepsky's Over the Hill which uses sporting metaphor to anatomize the white middle class and Just Like Home, a mediation on exile.
Ubu and the Truth Commission by
Contains Jane Taylor's playscript from the production by William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company, as well as a selection of visual materials, including photographs of the production, drawings for animation, and archival images.
A fantastical history of a useless man
A place with the pigs: a personal parable
A witch in my heart: a play set in Swaziland in the 1930s
Amaciko: imidlalo indimanye yeradio
Amadoda la afunani ezintsaneni
Black South African women: an anthology of plays
Confused Mhlaba: a play in nine scenes
Contemporary South African plays
Die van aardes van Grootoor: 'n epiese boeredrama in 780 episodes
Doing plays for a change: five works
Give me besides my daily bread
Hello and Goodbye: a play in two acts
Medicine for love and other plays
Open space: six contemporary plays from Africa
Plays from near and far: twelve one act plays
Skouspel: 'n versameling kortdramas
South African theatre: four plays and an introduction
Story of an African farm: a play in three acts
The dove returns: a play in three acts
The distance remains and other plays
The road to Mecca: a play in two acts
Theatre One: new South African drama
Theatre Two: new South African drama
