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WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST

years, he has brought international attention to the continuing famine in many parts of Africa. He has also donated profits from his recordings to the Ethiopian Famine Appeal Fund. His life and music were the subject of an Arena Documentary made in 1985 for BBC Television. His latest album, titled Tomorrow, features Kalahari and is fronted by the single about Nelson Mandela, "Bring Him Back Home," which he co-wrote. Masekela performed some of Tomorrow's cuts on his recent European tour with Paul Simon's Graceland show, which also featured Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and other leading African musicians from the embattled townships of South Africa.

SARAH ROBERTS (Set and Costume Designer) attended university in South Africa before receiving a scholarship to study theatre in the United Kingdom. Among her most recent work at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg are the following: Born in the R.S.A., which was staged last year in this theatre as part of the Woza Afrika! Festival; Sophiatown, which was staged last year at the Zurich, Berlin and Edinburgh Festivals and performed in Basel and Frankfurt; and the productions Have You Seen Zandile? and Strike the Woman, Strike the Rock!, both of which are currently on a six-month tour of Europe, including engagements at the Zurich and Edinburgh Festivals.

MANNIE MANIM (Lighting Designer) is managing director of the Market Theatre Company, managing trustee of the Market Theatre Foundation, member of the executive committee of Committed Artists, governor of FUBA (Federated Union of Black Artists), a founder member of the SAITT (South African Institute of Theater Technology), a member of the executive committee of the SAATM (South African Association of Theater Managements) and chairman of the drama committee for the Grahamstown Festival. During the past 30 years he has, in addition to producing and directing, designed lighting for over 300 major productions (including drama, ballet and opera) throughout South Africa. In 1980 he designed the lighting for Athol Fugard's A Lesson from Aloes at the National Theatre in London and in 1983 designed the lighting for Fugard's 'Master Harold'. . . and the boys at the National Theatre, London. He designed the lighting for all the international tours of Woza Albert! He received an A.A. Mutual Life Vita Award for Best Original Lighting Design the past three years in succession. Mannie has received the Shirley Moss Award for Greatest Practical and Technical Contributions to Theatre in South Africa (1980), the South African Institute of Theatre Technology Award for Outstanding Achievements as a Theatre Technician, Administrator and Lighting Designer (1981) and the first A.A. Mutual Life Vita Award for Most Enterprising Producer (1984). He designed the lighting for Asinamali!, Bopha and Born in the R.S.A., which were part of the Woza Afrika! festival here.

TOM SOURCE (Sound Designer) currently serves as vice-president of Masque Sound & Recording Corp., NYC. His work this year includes ABC–TV's July 4th special, the 1986–87 Tony Awards, Beirut, Happy Days, The Common Pursuit, the Song & Dance national company, the Dallas and Toronto symphonies and Bernadette Peters in concert.

NDABA MHLONGO (Conductor). Born in Zululand into a musical family, he began his stage career with the Can-Can Stars before playing the bass in nightclubs. Here he was found by Gibson Kente and brought to Johannesburg to play Qavile in Sikalo. Many other roles, mostly leads, in Kente's plays followed. His introduction

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WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST

into the film industry by his cousin Simon Sabela led to a Star Tonight! Award for Best Comedian in Ikati-elimnyana and another Tonight! Award for Best Actor in Deline. In 1986, he was the first actor to receive an individual award from the New York-based Woza Afrika! Foundation. Mhlongo says: "I am very proud of Gibson to have helped me through all this. Now I am experiencing a lot of things with this young man Mbongeni."

MARKET THEATRE COMPANY was formed in 1973 by Barney Simon (Artistic Director) and Mannie Manim (Managing Director) and a small group of actors committed to a non-racial theatre. In 1975 it was awarded the tender to convert the old Johannesburg market building into an arts complex. The company is without official subsidy. Its policy is to encourage the work of South African writers, directors and actors and the staging of the best of international and classic theatre.

GREGORY MOSHER (Director, Lincoln Center Theater). 1974–85, Goodman Theatre; producer of 83 plays, 41 of them world or American premieres. This is Mr. Mosher's 19th production for the Lincoln Center theater.

BERNARD GERSTEN (Executive Producer). Broadway: Co-produced Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Ballroom, John Guare's Bosoms and Neglect; associate producer of A Chorus Line, That Championship Season, Two Gentlemen of Verona, For Colored Girls . . ., Runaways, Sticks and Bones and Much Ado About Nothing. Film: Executive Producer of Francis Coppola's One from the Heart. Television: Co-producer of "Night of 100 Stars II," associate producer of New York Shakespeare Festival's television productions of "Much Ado About Nothing," "Wedding Band" and "Sticks and Bones." Also: Executive producer at Radio City Music Hall of Porgy and Bess, 5-6-7-8. . . Dance! and Ice. Co-producer of live symphony orchestra presentations of Abel Gance's Napoléon and its national and international tours. Associate producer for all New York Shakespeare Festival productions at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, the Vivian Beaumont Theater and at the Public Theater for 19 years.
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FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT.

The story that is told in this play by Serafina!, about Victoria Mxenge, is a true story. That only affirms my belief that our lives as blacks in South Africa is extraordinary. Besides what the world has read or seen on TV, there are special elements that only make sense to us. These moments are humorous and at times very sad.

Victoria Mxenge, an activist attorney who was a defense lawyer at the treason trials in Natal, was a very close friend of mine. A very warm personality she was. I invited her to the first run-throughs of Asinamali! in 1983. I can still remember that loud laughter at humorous moments (which was characteristic of her). She wept when the names of people who were killed by the government were mentioned at the end of the play. Most of these people she had lived with; they meant a lot to her. In fact her own husband was in that list.

It is one of the sad realities of our life in South Africa today her name is in the list of wasted people. On August 1, 1985, she was hacked to death in front of her children on her doorstep after serving as defense counsel at a treason trial.

– Mbongeni Ngema