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Ulwembu / Empatheatre and The Big Brotherhood ; with the Urban Futures Centre ; created by Mpume Mthombeni [and seven others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mthombeni, Mpume, author.
- Empatheatre and the Big Brotherhood with the Urban Futures Centre, author.
- Urban Futures Centre, author.
- Big Brotherhood, author.
- Empatheatre, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug abuse.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 67 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press 2018.
- Summary:
- Evil stalks the township of KwaMashu, near Durban. It comes in the form of Whoonga, a toxic mix of Bgrade heroin, rat poison and other chemical components that almost immediately sucks its users into the vortex of addiction and the crime, deception and personal tragedy that goes with it. Caught up in the web, the ulwembu of the title, presided over by the dealer, Bongani Mseleku, are Lieutenant Portia Mthembu, a police officer in the frontline of the fight against the scourge; her son Sipho; his friend, Andile Nxumalo, and Emmanuel Abreu, a Mozambiqueborn spaza shopkeeper. As it traces Sipho's descent from talented scholar and aspirant poet and songwriter to suicidal addict, Ulwembu explores the effects of addiction not only on those who suffer from it but on communities, families and the police, both those who try to control the murderous trade and those who benefit from it. Using a process they have dubbed Empatheatre, The Big Brotherhood, Neil Coppen, Dylan McGarry and Mpume Mtombeni, aim to share 'people's reallife stories, with the intention to inspire and develop a greater empathy and kindness in spaces where there is conflict or injustice'. Ulwembu is the dramatic result of their efforts.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Monique Marks
- Introduction by Dylan McGarry
- Glossary and translation
- Images from production
- Ulwembu: the play script
- Prologue: Our story
- Scene 1: Behind the police station
- Scene 2: The police station, captain's office
- Scene 3: The school yard
- Scene 4: Portia's house
- Scene 5: Behind Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 6: Behind Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 7: The police station
- Scene 8: Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 9: Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 10: Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 11: Portia's house
- Scene 12: Bongani's house
- Scene 13: Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 14: Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 15: Bongani's house
- Scene 16: Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 17: Sipho's room
- Scene 18: Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 19: Captain's office
- Scene 20: Behind the police station
- Scene 21: Bongani's house
- Scene 22: Portia's house
- Scene 23: Captain's office
- Scene 24: Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 25: On the street
- Epilogue: Our story
- Notes
- The Authors.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2019).
- ISBN:
- 1-77614-196-2
- OCLC:
- 1053903452
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