Gibson Kente began his stage career in the mid-sixties and never stopped producing until shortly before he died in 2004. ![]() The surviving scripts have just been published in a collection entitled Selected Plays IV: All That’s Left. The other three were put together by actors who did a wonderful job recalling the dialogue. Of these only one is based on an authentic script. It is a great tragedy that of the over sixty plays staged by South Africa’s greatest ever theatre impresario and playmaker, Gibson Mtutuzeli Kente, only four scripts survive. All his papers and manuscripts went up in smoke, including the scripts of his prolific theatre oevre. ![]() ![]() The young activists who were responsible had labelled the owner a sell-out for creating a hit television series on government-controlled television. One night in the dark days of apartheid a house in the comparatively upmarket Soweto township of Dube was petrol-bombed.
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