I See You

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I See You

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Author: Mongiwekhaya

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Collection: Modern Plays

Language: English

Published by: Methuen Drama

Published on: 5th May 2016

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 96 pages

ISBN: 9781474288125


I SEE YOU (English) NGIYAKUBONA (Zulu) EK SIEN JOU (Afrikaans) NDIYAKUBONA (Xhosa)

I don''t need your sorries white boy, yes. You heard right. You know white people think we are the same? We both look black. But only one of us is black . . .

Speak to me in your mother-tongue and I will let you go.

Post-Apartheid South Africa, after dark.

Ben meets Skinn for a night out. But the party is interrupted by the police. Ben, a young student who doesn''t know his own history, is accused of a crime he didn''t commit. And Officer Buthelezi, a former freedom fighter, can''t let it go.

Based on a real encounter.

This programme text was published to coincide with the world premiere of the play at the Royal Court Theatre, Upstairs, on 25 February 2016.

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