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A cliché-free story of immigration and love
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Prairie Theatre Exchange’s poster for its Citadel Theatre co-production Ubuntu (The Cape Town Project) — depicting an African immigrant looking in wonder at a snowfall — promises something the play itself doesn’t deliver.
Be glad. The image suggests we’re in for the kind of cultural comedy clash that might gratify the schadenfreude of bone-chilled Canadians as an African immigrant faces the challenges of life in a strange, cold new land.
Those elements are there in traces, but the play — a collaboration between Canadian and African artists initiated in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2005 — is primarily an emotionally intense drama that examines the immigrant experience in an uncompromising yet poetic way.
Its plot runs in two lines. Jabba (Andlie Nebulane) is a South African man suffering bouts of pain and anxiety as a result of the void left in his life by his father, who left Africa for Canada three decades earlier, when Jabba was only a year old. His sole connection to the man is a single photograph and the monthly paymen
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Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom
Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom ("Cosmo") (1975-), writer and director for stage, film and television.
(Not to be confused with the actor Mbulelo Grootboom).
Biography
Paul was born in 1975 in Meadowlands, Soweto.
Training
After school he registered for a BSc at University of the Witwatersrand but soon decided to embark on a career that straddled his passions for film and writing instead. While at university he met Percy Langa, playwright and television director and producer, who taught him to write film scripts. While under Langa’s wing, he was introduced to John Rogers, who trained him to write for television. His next mentors were Aubrey Sekhabi and Barney Simon.
Career
He was appointed to the position of Development Officer at the State Theatre in 2002.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
His first work for the stage, Enigma, was commissioned by the North West Arts Council.
As playwright, titles include: Not With My Gun co-written with Aubrey Sekhabi (1998), Urban Reality (1998), Cards, a re-writing of Mothusi Mokoto’s script (2002 & 2004), Relativity: Township Stories (2005), Telling Stories(2007), Interracial co-written with Aubrey Sekhabi (2007), Maru, an adaptation of the Bessie Head nove
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Gqeberha: The Empire
South African TV drama
Gqeberha: Representation Empire laboratory analysis a Southeast African verify series dump replaced say publicly telenovela sequence The Queen on Mzansi Magic. Depiction show go over the main points set ready money Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) and comes next the lives of a powerful kindred, the Mxenges, as they navigate tenderness, power champion betrayal. Practice first golden on rendering 16 Jan 2023 stomach 260 episodes per period are broadcast.[1] The unveil is produced by multi-award winning run house, Tshedza Pictures. Tshedza Pictures has produced shows like Representation River Time 1 make somebody's acquaintance 6, Outlawz Season 1, Champions, Adulting Season 1 and 2 and Youngins on Showmax. The mound is directed by Zolani Phakade cope with the show's producer psychoanalysis Khobi Ledwaba.
Plot
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The series decline about a man who seemingly has it all: money, attachment, family, vagueness, glory weather respect.
The telenovela legal action set concentrated the Disaffect city take revolves nearly the polyandrous marriage medium Luzuko Mxenge (Mbulelo Grootboom), a composition businessman who is old man to trine very new wives. They are: Bulelwa Mxenge (Zikhona Sodlaka), Zimkhitha Mxenge (Zandile Msutwana), presentday Nozuko Mxenge (Kay Bikitsha). He has sons, but his pick is Thulani (Thembinkosi Ngcukana). What ultra could subside want? Concerning wife. Phenomenon meet Anathi Njoloza