ISBN 978-0-620-33950-0 Soft cover thread sewn 160 pages 210 x 149 mm 2005 Regularly stocked and sold at the Keats Museum, Keats Grove, Hampstead, UK All young people dream about what they want to do with their lives. But what if you’ve studied for six long years to be a doctor and then discover that what you really want to be is … a poet! ‘Robin Malan’s vivid and moving account of the shining life and blazing talent of the young poet John Keats will stir and inspire all, especially young readers who, like Keats, long to make their own individual mark on the world.’ – Lance Salway ‘Beautifully presented, Rebel Angel is a tender, humorous and informative account of the life of John Keats.’ – Michelle McGrane online on LitNet, 1 June 2005

Two novellas Adam van Eden and According to Luke ISBN 978-0-9870182-5-0 Soft cover perfect bound 210 pages 210 x 137 mm 2012 First published 2012. Second Edition 2012. Each of the novellas deals with an older married man’s attraction to a younger man, and the conflicted state in which that attraction leaves him. And what is the effect of this on the wife? And the younger man – does anyone take account of his feelings and his desires? ‘I found the stories to be very well crafted … a very good read.’ – Gavin Hayward, Exit ‘The stories are beautifully written and are another valuable addition to the growing genre of South African gay literature.’ – Evan Tsouroulis, OUT Africa

ISBN 978-0-9870182-9-8 Soft cover perfect bound 168 pages 197 x 130 mm 2012 First published 2012. Second Impression 2013. Named one of the Books of the Year 2012 – Bookchat What’s it like when people at school start saying things about your brother? What do they mean when they say he’s a bit ‘funny’? But Missy knows better. She knows her brother’s funny – she laughs at him all the time – and she doesn’t care if other people say he’s a bit ‘funny’. And then something happens that isn’t funny at all. ‘This is a book that has so far been missing from South African children’s literature. … a thoughtful, helpful and – by the end – extremely moving and exciting book.’ – Jay Heale, Bookchat ‘This is an important contribution to gay literature … Recommended for private and school collections and libraries.’ – Lona Gericke, IBBY SA newsletter

ISBN 978-0-9922154-8-4 Soft cover perfect bound 154 pages 197 x 130 mm 2015 IBBY SA Honour list of books: Author 2015–2016 Cathryn knew she was different, that she was being asked to play a part that wasn’t written for her: she was ‘miscast’. In a brave bold move, she tells first her teacher and then her mother that she is now Caleb. That is the start of an extraordinary adventure for this transboy. This is author Charmaine Kendal’s first novel. Her play The Sentinel won the 2014 Maskew Miller Longman Literature Award. Her novel Leopard Calling won the Maskew Miller Longman Literature Award 2016

ISBN 978-0-620-38733-0 Soft cover perfect bound 80 pages 197 x 130 mm 2007 Casting: F11 M11 / F2 M3 Finalist in the NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Contemporary Theatre 2007 A play about identity in South Africa’s complex present-day society. With notes for teachers and community directors. ‘A great story that any South African can relate to … full of humour … compassionate.’ – PANSA judges

ISBN 978-0-620-38067-6 Soft cover perfect bound 64 pages 197 x 130 mm 2007 Casting: F2 M2 Winner of Comedy Award NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Contemporary Theatre 2007 Winner of Audience Award NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Contemporary Theatre 2007 Marriage is a straight matter of connubial bliss, right? Well, sometimes life’s a bit queer. ‘… perfect balance of style and content’ – Witness ‘… hilarious, captivating’ – Cue TV

ISBN 978-0-620-38958-7 Soft cover perfect bound 80 pages 197 x 130 mm 2007 Casting: F2 M2 U1 Nominated for Best Play at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2007 A portrait of an enduring friendship and an unfulfilled love. A young man tries to find his way at a crucial time in his short life. ‘I enjoyed the freshness of Jenkin’s writing … The play should tour the schools of Ireland.’ – David Norris, on RTE 1 television show, Revie

ISBN 978-0-620-41648-1 Soft cover perfect bound 72 pages 197 x 130 mm 2008 Casting: M1 multi / F13 M16 FNB Vita Award for Best Play 2002 Fleur du Cap Award for Best Original South African Text 2002 Best Actor Award Durban Theatre Awards to Rajesh Gopie, 2008 Standard Bank Ovation Award National Arts Festival 2016 The life and times of a South African Indian family in Durban, seen through funny, bittersweet, and touching moments. ‘Rajesh Gopie is a phenomenon to celebrate as a playwright, just as he is as an actor.’ – Nadine Gordimer ‘It has the right amount of funny, bittersweet and intimate moments to make it genuinely touching.’ – Natasha Hullagale, Culture Wars, Edinburgh ‘Out of Bounds has made an impact. It’s an important dramatic work … a riveting piece of theatre.’ – Caroline Smart, Durbs Magazine

ISBN 978-0-620-42031-0 Soft cover perfect bound 80 pages 197 x 130 mm 2008 Casting: F1 M3 Nominated for Best Play at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2008 The lives of four characters intersect with extraordinary results. ‘Dalliances is cool.’ – Zane Henry, Cape Argus

ISBN 978-0-620-43788-2 Soft cover perfect bound 72 pages 197 x 130 mm 2009 Casting: F5 Five sisters get together over a weekend for the first time in years. ‘It is an entertaining and moving universal story.’ – Twanji Kalula

ISBN 978-0-620-44290-9 Soft cover perfect bound 96 pages 197 x 130 mm 2009 Casting: F3 M2 U1 / F3 M2 Lifetime Achievement Award to Fatima Dike, Cape 300 Foundation, 2000 Fatima Dike received the Living Legend Award at the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston Salem, USA, 2009; The Return was presented as part of the Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, Fatima Dike, Naledi Theatre Awards 2013 Son Buntu returns after 18 years in the United States, together with his African American wife. The play explores both the humour and the tragic reality of a South African family in a time of transition. ‘… The audience gave the show a standing ovation.’ – Marcia Blumberg, Current writing

ISBN 978-0-620-45825-2 Soft cover perfect bound 100 pages 197 x 130 mm 2010 Casting: F2 M3 Jury Award Winner PANSA Festival of New Writing 2003 Nominee: Best New Play Naledi Theatre Awards 2005 Nominee: Best New Script Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2005 Standing Ovation Award presented to Mike van Graan at National Arts Festival 2012 Festival Playwright, Mike van Graan, at the National Arts Festival 2013 Nominee: Best Supporting Actor Male Naledi Theatre Awards 2018 A fast-paced political thriller played out against the backdrop of a young democracy. ‘… the quintessential South African play needed for this time.’ – Rafiek Mammon, Cape Argus

ISBN 978-0-620-45826-9 Soft cover perfect bound 128 pages 197 x 130 mm 2010 Casting: F1 M2 Nominee: Best New Script Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2010 Standing Ovation Award presented to Mike van Graan at the National Arts Festival 2012 Festival Playwright, Mike van Graan, at the National Arts Festival 2013 Iago’s Last Dance is a trilogy about betrayal and vengeance set against the backdrop of South Africa’s HIV/Aids pandemic. ‘A brilliant piece of theatre that should have long runs in this country and abroad.’ – Weekend Post

Robin Malan: Lord Hamlet –a collage ISBN 978-0-9870182-3-6 Robin and Malan: iHamlet –a collage (also contains an alternative ending) ISBN 978-0-9870182-6-7 Soft cover perfect bound 92 pages 197 x 130 mm 2012 Casting: M1 First published 2010. New enlarged Second Edition under two titles and with two separate ISBNs 2012 Ovation Award National Arts Festival 2012 Hamlet crystallised, Hamlet himself, by himself, being himself, speaking and revealing himself, through one particular actor. The text is the same in both versions, except that iHamlet also contains an alternative ending. ‘…a riveting and challenging piece of theatre, carefully thought-out, meticulously crafted.’ – Jennifer de Klerk, Artslink ‘… enlivened by a good-humoured commentary … teems with ideas for playing productively with the text.’ – John Saunders, The Use of English ‘Lord Hamlet is an hommage … written with a specific aim in mind: to celebrate a great play.’ – Frances Ringwood, Shakespeare in Southern Africa

ISBN 978-0-620-45827-6 Soft cover perfect bound 64 pages 197 x 130 mm 2010 Casting: F2 Fleur du Cap Award for Best New Play 2010 Winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama 2011 Best Actress Award, Robyn Scott, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013 Stella is a Nigerian immigrant who lives in dodgy circumstances in a flat in Sea Point, until … enter Rosa. ‘London Road is a mature and touching exploration of friendship between an elderly Jewish widow and her Nigerian neighbour.’ – Marianne Thamm

ISBN 978-0-620-48153-3 Soft cover perfect bound 130 pages 197 x 130 mm 2010 Casting: F1 M16 / F1 M5 The play is a stage adaptation of K Sello Duiker’s celebrated novel of the same name. It traces the turbulent life of a young graduate adrift in an unwelcoming world, searching for friendship. ‘… Tshepo finds himself, much as the nation-state, born of violence, violation and maledirected brutality.’ – Sam Raditlhalo

ISBN 978-0-9869875-5-7 Soft cover perfect bound 96 pages 197 x 130 mm 2010 Casting: F2 M2 Nominated for Best Play at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2010 A lesbian couple and a gay couple become … a family? Anything is possible in this acceptance of diverse sexualities and responsibilities. ‘Artscape’s brightly realised production.’ – Irish Times

ISBN 978-0-9869875-8-8 Soft cover perfect bound 96 pages 197 x 130 mm 2011 Casting: F2 M2 An imaginary encounter between historical novelist Mary Renault and her hero Alexander the Great, each of them with a same-sex life partner, Julie Mullard and Hephaistion. ‘The constant criss-crossing between the two sets of characters throughout the play is fascinating. … Jenkin weaves the two stories together seamlessly.’ – Tyrone August, Cape Times

ISBN 978-0-9870182-4-3 Soft cover perfect bound 96 pages 197 x 130 mm 2012 Casting: F1 M4 Winner Best New Play Naledi Theatre Awards 2010 Ovation Award National Arts Festival 2012 Standing Ovation Award National Arts Festival 2012 Festival Playwright, Mike van Graan, at the National Arts Festival 2013 Jewish, Muslim and Christian characters interact in this play set in Cape Town at a time when the city seethed with various responses to the anti-gangsterism and anti-drug activities of PAGAD. ‘… yet another triumph … this utterly engrossing docu-drama.’ – Peter Feldman, Artslink

ISBN 978-0-9921791-0-6 Soft cover perfect bound 102 pages 197 x 130 mm Casting: F8 X multi M8 X multi / F7 M4 First published 2012. Second edition 2012. Neil Coppen was Standard Bank Young Artist for Theatre 2011 Winner Best New South African script, Durban Theatre Awards 2012 Winner Best New South African script, Naledi Theatre Awards 2013 The interwoven lives of three families over 150 years. ‘… a beautifully-hewn work …’ – Artslink ‘… an insightful and nuanced drama …’ – The Mercury

Omphile Molusi: Cadre ISBN 978-0-9921791-2-0 Soft cover perfect bound 68 pages 197 x 130 mm 2013 Casting: F3 M9 U3 / F1 M2 Cadre had its world premiere at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in February 2013; and then a season at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, in March-April 2013. In August 2013 a new Edinburgh Festival edition was published by Oberon Books, UK. Countries go through times of turmoil when in transition to a new order. Those larger Struggles consist of many personal, individual struggles. Cadre records one such story. ‘… intense and intensely moving.’ – Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

NewVOiCES ISBN 978-0-9921791-8-2 Soft cover perfect bound 88 pages 197 x 130 mm 2013 Casting: F2 M3 How does a young Cape Town man, bent on a career as a soccer administrator, accommodate his grandfather’s wish for him to take over the clan’s Eastern Cape farm and homestead? ‘… the themes of patriarchal tradition and modern ambition remain central to the evolving plot.’ – Clifford Graham, Monday Missile ‘… a moving, yet light-hearted, story that affirms the place of young South African playwrights in theatre.’ – Tracey Saunders, Cape Times

NewVOiCES Christo Davids and Jody J Abrahams: Bullets over Bishop Lavis ISBN 978-0-9921791-3-7 Soft cover perfect bound 92 pages 197 x 130 mm 2013 Casting: F2 M2 Two men, brothers in the desperate times of the Struggle, re-connect years later, after their separate lives have taken very different directions. ‘… a definite must-see for the more mature audience.’ – Faheem abz Abrahams, What’s On in Cape Town

NewVOiCES Anele Rusi: iSystem ISBN 978-0-9921791-9-9 Soft cover perfect bound 82 pages 197 x 130 mm 2013 Casting: F1 M4 A drug raid goes horribly wrong and two policemen become suspects in their own investigation. To what extent can we trust those to whom we entrust our safety? ‘Anele Rusi is one of a crop of young playwrights who produced some of the finest pieces of writing of the year.’ – Tracey Saunders, Daily Maverick ‘The play makes you reflect on where the line should be drawn, and if morality still has a place in our society.’ – Mariana Malan, Die Burger

ISBN 978-0-9921791-4-4 Soft cover perfect bound 86 pages 197 x 130 mm 2013 Casting: F2 M1 Ovation Award, National Arts Festival 2013 Festival Playwright, Mike van Graan, at the National Arts Festival 2013 The play confronts many of the questions dealing with identity, and with inter-racial relationships in contemporary South Africa. A white woman brings up the born-free black girl in Cape Town suburbia – in the process alienating her from the rest of her township family. ‘… knocking you off balance as you hardly get to hold on to one issue before another comes rolling by … It is an emotional roller-coaster ride just to hold steady and keep up.’ – Diane de Beer, Tonight ‘… a highly commendable addition to Van Graan’s highly impressive body of work.’ – Peter Feldman, Citizen

NewVOiCES Philip Rademeyer: The View ISBN 978-0-9922154-2-2 Soft cover perfect bound 64 pages 197 x 130 mm 2013 Casting: M1 U1 multi The Doric Wilson Award for Intercultural Dialogue at the 2013 International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival The Oscar Wilde Award for New Writing at the 2013 International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival In some dystopian future, all homosexual people have been shipped off into space. From his hermetically sealed pod, the Boy looks down on a ruined, devastated Earth. It is a story of loss, grief and isolation. ‘Scriptwriter Philip Rademeyer has crafted a poetic piece … The View isn’t afraid to explore contemporary issues that some might find uncomfortable.’ – Eugene Yiga, The Times ‘Beautiful and timely. Essential theatre.’ – Michael Paye, ReviewsGate

NewVOiCES Khayelihle Dom Gumede: Crepuscule ISBN 978-0-9922154-0-8 Soft cover perfect bound 108 pages 197 x 130 mm 2014 Casting: F5 M7 / F3 M4 2012 winner of the Theatre Arts Admin Collective’s Emerging Theatre Director’s Bursary Nominated for Best New South African Script and Best Director of a Play, Naledi Theatre Awards 2015 This adaptation of a short story by celebrated Drum writer Can Themba calls into being the days and ways of life in Johannesburg and Sophiatown in the 1950s. In that time and place, how much chance does the love between black Can and white Janet have? Can it exist only in the ‘crepuscular’ half-light between day and night? ‘Crepuscule is an epic, moving, thrilling, inspiring piece of theatre.’ – Megan Choritz, Megan’s Head

ISBN 978-0-9922154-7-7 Soft cover perfect bound 96 pages 197 x 130 mm 2015 Casting: M6 / M4 Runner-up, PANSA/NLDTF Festival of New Writing, Durban, 2012 Winner, Best Director, PANSA/NLDTF Festival of New Writing, Durban, 2012 Winner, Audience Choice, PANSA/NLDTF Festival of New Writing, Durban, 2012 Nominated for Best New South African Script and Best Production of a Play, Naledi Theatre Awards 2015 The London newspaper vendor says it all in the Prologue to this intriguing play: ‘The best stories are always tall stories. The one you’re about ta see should be taken with a generous pinch a’ salt. Cecil John Rhodes and Sol Plaatje never met. Rhodes were holed up in Kimberley during the siege, Plaatje were in Mafeking. … Other than that little detail, most of what follows is true.’

JUNKETS10SERIES Peter Krummeck: iVirgin Boy ISBN 978-0-9946791-0-9 Soft cover perfect bound 98 pages 207 x 137 mm 2015 Casting: F2 M9 / F1 M3 Winner of Drama Award, PANSA/NLDTF Festival of Contemporary Theatre 2005 This memorial version is the first in our 10th Birthday celebratory series: the play was first staged in 2005, the year in which Junkets was founded. See also p. 27 S.A. Gay Plays 2. Alan ‘borrows’ his mother’s car to celebrate his matric results. Caught driving without a licence and over the legal alcohol limit, he is put in the police holding cells overnight, with predictably tragic consequences. ‘It’s a great story, meaningful and very relevant.’ – Megan Furniss, www.meganshead.co.za

JUNKETS10SERIES The Papercut Collective writers Alex McCarthy & Callum Tilbury: Uhm … ISBN 978-0-9946791-9-6 Soft cover perfect bound 68 pages 207 x 137 mm 2015 Casting: F2 M3 Winner of Best Student Writing, 2014 National Arts Festival Koleka Putuma nominated for the Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for New Directors, 2014 Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards This surprise runaway success uses the bizarre ghostly antics of Queen Victoria, Cecil John Rhodes and Sol T Plaatje to battle for the soul of thesis-writing Coceka, worrying herself silly about the way English is colonising indigenous languages. ‘This is what the future of local theatre looks like.’ – Steyn du Toit, Cape Times

JUNKETS10SERIES Philip Rademeyer: Ashes ISBN 978-0-9946791-8-5 Soft cover saddle-stitched 60 pages 207 x 137 mm 2016 Casting: M2 / F2 M4 Silver Ovation Award, 2015 National Arts Festival Best Production, KKNK 2016 Best Actor Award to Stefan Erasmus, KKNK 2016 ‘The inspiration for Ashes is the ongoing violence against gays and lesbians in our country. Three specific incidents in 2014 … provided the impetus for the piece.’ – Philip Rademeyer, the author ‘Ashes is unsettling and challenging: an impactful and important production.’ – Sarah Roberson, The Critter

JUNKETS10SERIES Joanna Evans: The Year of the Bicycle ISBN 978-0-9946791-5-4 Soft cover saddle-stitched 56 pages 207 x 137 mm 2016 Casting: F1 M5 X multi / F1 M2 Silver Ovation Award, 2013 National Arts Festival Two childhood friends Amelia and Andile are locked into each other’s subconscious as a result of a simultaneous concussion. They discover that, in our fractured society, friendship is not allowed to happen, even to children. ‘Together with a pair of compelling performers, Evans has created a moving reflection of the things that draw us together as human beings, as well as of those that tear us apart, creating a story that explores some of the challenges faced by the not-quite born-free generation of South Africans of which she is a part.’ – David Fick, Broadway World

JUNKETS10SERIES Kline Smith: Mob Feel ISBN 978-0-9946791-2-3 Soft cover saddle-stitched 40 pages 207 x 137 mm 2016 Casting: F1 M5 X multi / F1 M2 Best Writer and Best Director Student Theatre Programme, 2012 National Arts Festival Best Fringe Production, 2013 Musho! International Theatre Festival Adapted from Can Themba’s short story ‘Mob passion’, the play sets up a contemporary Romeo-and-Juliet situation between two rival factions in Westbury in the 1950s. ‘…a poignant, moving, funny and deeply thought-provoking piece of theatre.’ – Estelle Sinkins, The Witness

JUNKETS10SERIES Menzi Mkhwane: Last Cow Standing ISBN 978-0-9946902-2-7 Soft cover perfect bound 60 pages 207 x 137 mm 2016 Casting: M1 multi / F4 M8 Nominated for Best New South African Script, and Best Solo performance to Menzi Mkhwane in the Durban Mercury Theatre Awards 2014 Winner of the Development Award, Imbewu Trust SCrIBE Script Writing Competition 2014 All the cows are dying. At Grandmother’s request, Samira takes their last cow and travels to the royal kraal to speak to King Marufu to ask him to stop the sacrifice of the people’s cows. But will they allow a young boy into the king’s place, let alone permit him to confront the king with the last cow standing? ‘A must-see for the family and anyone interested in experiencing some of the best raw theatre Durban has to offer.’ – Latoya Newman, Tonight

JUNKETS10SERIES My Home Theatre Productions: Ndendile (I am married) Devised by the company, directed by Sinoxolo Cezula, scripted by Bongani Pontsana ISBN 978-0-9946902-0-3 Soft cover saddle stitched 54 pages 207 x 137 mm 2016 Casting: F1 M3 U any / M6 Outright-Faisit Award for Performance Excellence, to Sinoxolo Cezula, Zabalaza Theatre Festival 2015 Best Supporting Actor Award, to Siphesihle Duda, Zabalaza Theatre Festival 2015 Nominated for Fresh Performer to Sinoxolo Cezula, Cape Town Fringe Festival 2016 A young man Thabani leaves his wife and father in their rural homestead to go and live in Cape Town. There he meets, falls in love with, and marries Bongile. Three years later he feels compelled to return to his father’s kraal to ask his blessing on his and Bongile’s male-to-male marriage. ‘… really excellent work. Most impressive. Very, very brave subject matter, beautiful group work and a beautiful presentation overall … The whole predicament of contrasting beliefs is very well portrayed and nobody wins everything.’ – Gay Morris, in a report on an early version of the play

JUNKETS10SERIES Collected Series No. 9 Robin Malan: Three Radio Plays school boys, rentboys & klevva boys ISBN 978-0-9946791-6-1 Soft cover perfect bound 140 pages 207 x 137 mm 2016 Casting: Band of Brothers (F1 M6), The British Maharajah and the German Rentboy (F8 M15 U10), Clayton Crawford PhD (F6 M7 XF5) These are three examples of the craft of the radio play: Band of Brothers travels back and forth in time over a period of twelve years to unravel a sex scandal in a boys’ school. The British Maharajah and the German Rentboy bills itself as a ’fantasy woven from facts’, presented as a quasi radio documentary. Clayton Crawford, PhD is a piece of total realism, the entire action taking place over one evening, with dramatic time mimicking real time.

JUNKETS10SERIES Bruce J Little: Little Poof! homonologues ISBN 978-0-9946791-9-2 Soft cover saddlestitched 56 pages 207 x 137 mm 2017 Casting: M1 multi / F3 M14 This is a collection of queer-themed monologues for the whole ‘family’. Bruce J Little performed a number of LGBTI comedy-cabaret shows all around South Africa for several years, dealing with some challenging issues. This is a compilation of a number of the monologues that featured in these shows. ‘It’s fun, it’s a laugh and it’s deeply moving.’ – MambaOnline

ISBN 978-0-9946902-3-4 Soft cover PUR bound 68 pages 197 x 130 mm 2017 Casting: F1 M4 Winner of Best Production, Naledi Theatre Awards 2014 Winner of Best Supporting Actor for Phillip Tipo Tindisa, Naledi Theatre Awards 2014 Winner of Best Choreography for Grant van Ster, Naledi Theatre Awards 2014 Winner of Best Design for Patrick Curtis, Naledi Theatre Awards 2014 Winner of Best Design for Patrick Curtis, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2014 Winner of Best Sound Design / Original Music for Nceba Gongxeba, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2014 Nominated for Best Director, Lara Foot, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2014 Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Phillip Tipo Tindisa, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2014 Nominated for Best Lighting Design, Benever Arendse, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2014 Fishers of Hope Taweret is Lara Foot’s first play set outside of the mental and physical landscape of South Africa. To research the play, Foot journeyed to a small fishing village near Kisumu in Kenya. … This is a story that ripples out way beyond the shores of this lake and this village. – Marianne Thamm, Daily Maverick ‘… unique theatre that stimulates pathos and empathy for the brave small people.’ – Jaroslav Kalac, www.saartsdiary.com

The Time Sequence No. 1 Ameera Conrad: Reparation ISBN 978-0-9946902-6-5 Soft cover PUR bound 80 pages 197 x 130 mm 2017 Casting: F2 M2 2024. The people demand reparations for the atrocities committed against them for hundreds of years by white settlers in South Africa. Land. Economy. Blood. Reparation is fast-paced, cutting and decisive. It’s impolite. It’s loud. It’s got a potty mouth. ‘highly provocative and thought-provoking … really sassy dialogue … highly recommended.’ – Orielle Berry, IOL

The Time Sequence No. 2 Lwanda Sindaphi: KUDU ISBN 978-0-9946902-7-2 Soft cover PUR bound 70 pages 197 x 130 mm 2017 Casting: F6 M3 U3 or more Winner of Best New South African Script Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2018 Winner of Best New Director for Lwanda Sindaphi Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2018 Winner of Best Ensemble Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2018 Winner of NAC Incubator Trade Fair 2018 Special Merit Award for Best Playwright Nominated for Best Production Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2018 The year is 2030. The drama centres on the encounter between the amaXhosa and the Khoi/Coloured descendants, which takes place at Intaba KaNdoda, a poverty-stricken community once ruled by the Khoi chief Ndoda. The Khoi/Coloured descendants, having heard stories of how chief Ndoda was killed in a land dispute, have come to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. They have arrived to take back the land from the amaXhosa. A tense drama, played out in both physical-theatre terms and through poetic language.

THE TIME SEQUENCE No. 3 Billy Langa in collaboration with Mahlatsi Mokgonyana: Tswalo ISBN 978-0-9946902-8-9 Soft cover PUR bound 52 pages 197 x 130 mm 2017 Casting: M1 Fresh Award for Best Performer, Billy Langa, Cape Town Fringe Festival 2017 Fresh Award for Best Director, Mahlatsi Mokgonyana, Cape Town Fringe Festival 2017 Winner of Standard Bank Ovation Award, National Arts Festival 2018 Winner of Arts & Culture Trust ImpACT Award to Theatreduo 2019 Tswalo is a body of poems constructed to fragment in a way a narrative that is carried in both physicality and voice. It is placed in a timeless space of existence, and explores the primary themes of being: chaos and beauty, blood and birth, love and war, in the same frame. The body of work was conceived through celebrating and investigating performance poetry in a theatrical space: poetry as a language of liberation, both performative and literal in this contemporary time, and as a tool to explore the discipline of performance, borrowing from that of crafting a poem

The Time Sequence No. 4 Neil Coppen: NewFoundLand ISBN 978-0-6399188-0-8 Soft cover PUR bound 118 pages 197 x 130 mm 2018 Casting: F3 M5 Best Debut Production, Kanna Award, KKNK 2017 Best Supporting Actor Kanna Award, Kopana Maroga, KKNK 2017 Best Set Design, Neil Coppen and Vaughn Sadie, Fiesta Award 2018 Best Supporting Actor Award, Kopana Maroga, Fiesta Award 2018 Best Supporting Player, Kopano Maroga, Woordfees 2018 An encounter between two people, each in search of some kind of fulfilment: anaesthetist Jacques and Dance student Sizwe. The play moves through and between real time, surreal time, dream time and who-knows-what time. The text requires the fascinated reader to follow them through labyrinthine areas of lived experience, to … what kind of resolution? The play is the result of the Royal Court Theatre New Plays from South Africa: after 20 Years of Democracy Programme. ‘Let me rush to add that I can’t recall any other production touching me this much in all the corners of my psyche, mind, soul and solar plexus.’ – Wim Vorster, The Theatre Times

Tiisetso Mashifane wa Noni: Sainthood ISBN 978-0-6399188-4-6 Soft cover PUR bound 82 pages 197 x 130mm 2019 Casting: M5 Winner of Standard Bank Ovation Award, National Arts Festival 2018 Nominated for Best Ensemble Cast Award, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2018 An exciting play that interrogates the whole culture of masculinity in all-boys schools, how vulnerable the boys are and how dangerous the macho/honour/’man-up & shut-up’ culture can be. ‘A quintet of boys … are on the cusp of adulthood – and facing a shed-load of pressure, be it from hiding their sexual orientation to striving to assert their identity.’ – Karen Rutter

ISBN 978-0-6399188-7-7 Soft cover PUR bound 80 pages 197 x 130mm 2019 Casting: M2 Winner of Best New South African Script, Naledi Theatre Award 2014 [in playscript we have the date as 2013?] Two young city professionals reflect back on their childhood trips to their rural origins. ‘ A poignant, humorous and touching look at what identity means in South Africa.’ – City Press

ISBN 978-0-6399188-3-9 Soft cover PUR bound 64 pages 197 x 130mm 2020 Casting: M2 Runner-up of the SCrIBE Playwriting Award, 2018 A young rent boy on a hook-up call finds the older man whose home he has entered has very different expectations of him.

BaxterJunkets Series No. 1 Bulelani Mabutyana: Worst of Both Worlds ISBN 978-0-9921791-7-5 Soft cover perfect bound 58 pages 197 x 130 mm 2014 Casting: M2 multi / F6 M10 U2 Winner of the 2012 Zabalaza Theatre Festival at the Baxter Theatre Centre Using the whirlwind techniques of physical theatre, the two male actors portray the horrors of female human trafficking and the drug trade. They play a myriad of characters, switching roles, genders, ages, at lightning speed and with seamless ease. ‘The script is clear and tight. This is a type of play one would watch over and over again.’ – Sebata Sesiu, Artslink ‘… tackles a heavy subject bravely and with honesty. It is a plea for people to sit up and take notice.’ – Terri Dunbar-Curran, Cape Times

ISBN 978-0-9922154-1-5 Soft cover perfect bound 50 pages 197 x 130 mm 2014 Casting: M1 multi / M4 U1 Winner of the 2013 Zabalaza Theatre Festival at the Baxter Theatre Centre Winner of a Fringe Ovation Award, National Arts Festival 2013 Winner of an Encore Award, National Arts Festival 2013 Winner of Best Performance in a One-Person Play, Phillip M Dikotla, Fleur du Cap Awards 2013 Nominated for Best New South African Play, Fleur du Cap Awards 2013 Winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama 2014 How can you make theatre, write a play, about something as horrific as what happened at Skierlik? In 2008 a 17-year-old white boy drove into the informal settlement and ‘with a gun in his hand, he was shooting … and shooting … and shooting,’ shouting obscenities as he mowed down defenceless people. ‘Dikotla tackles a complex and emotional subject with great skill and imagination. … It is a moving example of the power of theatre to illuminate.’ – Tyrone August, Cape Times ‘Dikotla looks beyond the guilt of the perpetrator and in a thought-provoking and objective narrative, scathingly criticises the media and government’s response to the killings.’ – Clifford Graham, Monday Missile

ISBN 978-0-9922154-9-1 Soft cover perfect bound 54 pages 197 x 130 mm 2015 Casting: M1 multi / F5 M5 Winner of the 2014 Zabalaza Theatre Festival at the Baxter Theatre Centre ; also Best Script Award, and Outstanding Artist Award Winner of Fresh Award for Writing, Khayalethu Anthony, Cape Town Fringe Festival 2017 Nominated for Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Play, Khayalethu Anthony, Fleur du Cap Awards 2014 Nominated for Best Performance in a One-Person Play, Fleur du Cap Awards 2014 Nominated for Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for New Director, Fleur du Cap Awards 2014 ‘Us, who grew up without the presence of our biological fathers.’ It is upon these words that this powerful play pivots. A young man and his two siblings try to grow up in an urban township. His mother has her own demons and feels strain in several directions. He finds a father-figure in Bra Mike, but that cannot last … ‘The Champion explores the roots of both perpetrators and victims of violence in a riveting monologue.’ – Tracey Saunders

ISBN 978-0-9946791-4-7 Soft cover saddle-stitched 44 pages 197 x 130 mm 2016 Casting: F1 multi / F7 M11 Best Script, Sancta Gauteng Province Festival 2014 Best of the Festival, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Cape Town 2015 Best Script, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Cape Town 2015 Everyone wanted to know who started the fire. Fruit is the simple tale of a young girl Matlakala, who uses an indigenous game called masikitla to tell her story about what life is like growing up in the township of Diepkloof, ravaged by crime and poverty. Trapped in her childhood memories, she is now claiming back her innocence. ‘This piece of South African theatre is the kind of theatre I want my children to see. This is the kind of theatre of which we can be truly proud.’ – Thola Antamu, What’s On in Cape Town

ISBN 978-0-9946902-4-1 Soft cover saddle-stitched 52 pages 197 x 130 mm 2017 Casting: F3 multi / F7 Best of the Festival, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Cape Town 2016 Best Script, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Cape Town 2016 TIP-ex is about a woman who takes the audience back to her teenage years when she started to realise that she was attracted to the same sex. When she mentions this to her conservative family, outrage breaks out and everything changes. As still happens today, she is sent to confirmation classes to ‘fix’ the ‘problem’. ‘Hannie uses visual and verbal metaphors to ensure that this is a memorable script.’ – Tracey Saunders, IOL ‘This dynamic and powerful piece is a must-see.’ – Cape Town Etc.

Devised by Ameera Conrad, Cleo Raatus, Kgomotso Khunoane, Oarabile Ditsele, Sihle Mnqwazana, Sizwesandile Mnisi, Tankiso Mamabolo, Thando Mangcu: The Fall ISBN 978-0-9946902-5-8 Soft cover PUR bound 90 pages 197 x 130 mm 2017 Casting: F3 M4 Encore Award, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2017 The Stage Cast Award, Edinburgh Festival 2017 The Scotsman Fringe First Award, Edinburgh Festival 2017 Shortlisted for Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award 2017 Baxter Theatre Artists of the Year 2017 Nominated for Helen Hayes Outstanding Visiting Production Award, Washington Post Named one of the Best of 2018, New York Times Nominated for Best Ensemble Naledi Theatre Awards 2018 The Fall was written by the original cast as a reaction to and reflection on the South African student protests in 2015 and part of 2016. The #RhodesMustFall and subsequent student-led movements in South Africa alerted the country and the world to the latent on-going issues brought about by colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. The Fall details the experiences of seven students within this movement and how they deal with their traumas, while still moving towards activism for a free decolonised education. There is no doubt that this work is full-throated, full-throttle, militantly artistic theatre – on stage and page. – Adrienne Sichel, Cape Times

ISBN 978-0-9946902-9-6 Soft cover saddle-stitched 60 pages 197 x 130 mm 2018 Casting: M2 multi / 2 M11 Best Actor Award for Thobani Nzuza, Isigcawu Festival, Khaya Multi Arts Centre 2015 Best Production, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Baxter Theatre Centre 2017 Best Actor Award for Thobani Nzuza, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Baxter Theatre Centre 2017 Nominated for the Fresh Award for Best Performer, Thobani Nzuza, Cape Town Fringe Festival 2017 Boy Ntulikazi is an account of a young man trying to trace his parentage and ancestry. Brought up on a farm, he has grown up with the idea that the white farmer Baas Pieter is his father. He embarks on a quest to find out his true parentage – with some disconcerting discoveries along the way. It is, unhappily, a very South African story. ‘Nzuza is living proof that the power of theatre should not be underestimated, it can change lives, and even careers.’ – Barbara Loots, Theatre Scenes

ISBN 978-0-6399188-1-5 Soft cover PUR bound 68 pages 197 x 130 mm 2019 Casting: F1 M1 / F4 M5 U3 Best Production Award, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Baxter Theatre Centre 2018 Best Male Actor Award to Carlo Daniels, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Baxter Theatre Centre 2018 Nominated for Best Script, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Baxter Theatre Centre 2018 Nominated for Best Direction Award, Zabalaza Theatre Festival,Baxter Theatre Centre 2018 Nominated for Best Female Actor Award for Abigail Mei, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Baxter Theatre Centre 2018 Nominated for Most Promising Student (Carlo Daniels) Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2018 The question – ‘What is justice?’ – plays a significant part in this physical drama. It is an attempt to highlight sexual and emotional abuse, and to provoke both conversation around it and action against it. ‘Don’t miss this gem.’ – Die Son ‘*****’ – Cape Argus

ISBN 978-0-6399188-5-3 Soft cover PUR bound 88 pages 197 x 130mm 2020 Casting: M4 Joint-Winner of Best Production, Zabalaza Theatre Festival 2019 Winner Best Ensemble Production, Zabalaza Theatre Festival 2019

ISBN 978-0-6399188-6-0 Soft cover PUR bound 60 pages 197 x 130mm 2020 Casting: F4 M3 Best Production Award, Embo Annual Festival, Stellenbosch, 2018 Joint-Winner of Best Production Zabalaza Theatre Festival 2019 Best Supporting Female Actor for Wendy Mrali, Zabalaza Theatre Festival 2019 Best Supporting Male Actor for Molupi Lepeli, Zabalaza Theatre Festival 2019

The Artscape Dublin Festival plays compiled by Robin Malan ISBN 978-0-9869875-7-1 Soft cover perfect bound 300 pages 210 x 137 mm 2011 Casting: Happy Endings are Extra (F1 M2), The Boy Who Fell from the Roof (F2 M2 U1), Dalliances (F1 M3), Careful (F2), Myth of Andrew & Jo (F2 M2) Plays included: Ashraf Johaardien: Happy Endings are Extra • Juliet Jenkin: The Boy Who Fell from the Roof • Pieter Jacobs: Dalliances • Fiona Coyne: Careless • Gideon van Eeden: Myth of Andrew & Jo Artscape toured these five plays to the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festivals between 2006 and 2010. All of them were either nominees or winners in the Best Play Award as well as in other awards. ‘The gay and lesbian community in South Africa still needs to be vigilant and so public discussion of the issues continues to be important …’ – Michael Maas, CEO, Artscape

Southern African plays for high schools Compiled by Robin Malan and Colleen Moroukian ISBN 978-0-9869875-9-5 Soft cover perfect bound 202 pages 210 x 137 mm 2011 Short plays by thirteen established and emerging Southern African writers, for performance or reading by high school students. ‘This is a brilliant idea and something needed by us at school.’ – a teacher in Cape Town

Southern African plays for high schools Compiled by Robin Malan and Colleen Moroukian ISBN 978-0-9870182-1-2 Soft cover perfect bound 200 pages 210 x 137 mm 2011 A second collection of eleven short plays by established and emerging Southern African writers, for performance or reading by high school students. ‘… perfect material for everyone involved in drama, theatre arts and performing arts in high schools, universities, teacher-training institutions and libraries. … the kind of plays drama teachers and their students have been waiting for.’ – Independent Education, May 2012

Compiled by Jennie Reznek, Mark Fleishman, Faniswa Yisa and Frances Marek ISBN 978-0-9870182-0-5 Soft cover perfect bound 188 pages 210 x 137 mm 2012 Casting: Every Year … (F2 multi / F10 M5 U4), ingcewa … (F4 M5 multi / F7 M7), Die Vreemdeling (F1 M3 multi / F6 M13), Inxeba … (F4 M4) Winner of Contribution to Drama Award to Magnet Theatre, Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs & Sport 2018 In these four plays, using combinations of four different languages, Magnet Theatre deploys performance to explore the theme of migration and the experience of being ‘between’ and ‘on the move’ that characterises life for many people in Cape Town and Southern Africa today. ‘Magnet Theatre is possibly the closest institution to a national theatre in South Africa, operating beyond buildings, migrating fluidly into empty spaces they find, creating rich potential out of liminal zones.’ – Anton Krueger Plays included: Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking • ingcwaba lendoda lise cankwe ndlela • Die Vreemdeling • Inxeba Lomphilisi

Compiled by UJ Arts & Culture ISBN 978-0-9870182-8-1 Soft cover perfect bound 114 pages 210 x 137 mm 2012 Casting: Losing the Plot (F1 M2), The Opening (F1 M1), Metaphorically Speaking (M2), DANCEtheDANCE (F1 M1), Kill Me, Please! (F1 M1), The Wave (F9 M1 U16 multi) ‘SA Shorts is a laboratory for new voices and new ideas. Works have been selected from an open call for playwrights to submit previously unpublished and unproduced short plays. The works selected are ambitious, fresh, playful, engaging, energising, provocative, and powerful.’ – Alby Michaels, Resident Director, UJ Arts & Culture The University of Johannesburg Arts & Culture was invited to premiere SA Shorts as part of the Student Theatre Festival at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, 2012. Plays included: Anthony Akerman Losing the Plot • Rob K Baum The Opening • Zanandi Botes Metaphorically Speaking • Tristan Jacobs DANCEtheDANCE • Rhea MacCallum Kill Me, Please • Renos Nicos Spanoudes & Alby Michaels The Wave

Compiled by Robin Malan ISBN 978-0-9870182-2-9 Soft cover perfect bound 328 pages 210 x 137 mm 2013 Casting: Your Loving Simon (M2), iVirgin Boy (F2 M9 / F1 M3), Other People’s Lives (F2 M2), Special Thanks to Friends from Afar (F1 M2), Chomi (M9 / M8) The fact that ten gay-themed plays written by South African playwrights since 1994 can be collected in a two-volume anthology (S.A. Gay Plays 1 and 2) tells you something about the burgeoning of gay plays that took place in the wake of the 1996 South African Constitution, the first in the world to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. These plays serve to illuminate that brave legislative act of conferring dignity. Plays included: Robert Colman: Your Loving Simon • Peter Krummeck: iVirgin Boy • Amy Jephta: Other People’s Lives • Nicholas Spagnoletti: Special Thanks to Guests from Afar • Pfarelo N.: Chomi

Compiled by Fatima Dike, André Lemmer, Robin Malan and Omphile Molusi ISBN 978-0-9922154-3-9 Soft cover perfect bound 210 pages 210 x 137 mm 2015 New ways to present old tales! This two-volume collection consists of 24 stage adaptations of African folktales drawn from various cultures. Ideal for the last few Grades of primary school and the first few Grades of high school, for performance either to or by pre-teens.

Compiled by Fatima Dike, André Lemmer, Robin Malan and Omphile Molusi ISBN 978-0-9922154-4-6 Soft cover perfect bound 212 pages 210 x 137 mm 2015 Plays by Vanessa Bower, M Cassiem D’arcy, Stephen Marcus Finn, Rosemund Handler, Jenny Hatton, Suenel Holloway, Janice Honeyman, Dorothy Kowen, André Lemmer, Clinton Marius, Vincent Meyburgh and the Jungle Theatre Company, Chris Mlalazi, Omphile Molusi, Jonathan Orton, M Andries Phukuntsi, Letlhogonolo I Riba, and Ingrid Wylde. ‘The schools ask us for plays. The Grade 7s are desperate for one-act plays as they are part of the curriculum and there is nothing available.’ – Carol Ryan, BookMark

JUNKETS10SERIES Robin Malan: Three Radio Plays school boys, rentboys & klevva boys ISBN 978-0-9946791-6-1 Soft cover perfect bound 140 pages 207 x 137 mm 2016 Casting: Band of Brothers (F1 M6), The British Maharajah and the German Rentboy (F8 M15 U10), Clayton Crawford PhD (F6 M7 XF5) These are three examples of the craft of the radio play: Band of Brothers travels back and forth in time over a period of twelve years to unravel a sex scandal in a boys’ school. The British Maharajah and the German Rentboy bills itself as a ’fantasy woven from facts’, presented as a quasi radio documentary. Clayton Crawford, PhD is a piece of total realism, the entire action taking place over one evening, with dramatic time mimicking real time.

Compiled by Robin Malan, Diana Wilson and David Fick ISBN 978-0-9921791-5-1 Soft cover perfect bound 128 pages 210 x 137 mm 2013 An annotated collection of 30 monologues from Southern Africa suitable for young adult female and male performers as audition pieces or examination solo pieces. The co-compilers are experienced Drama and English teachers. Many of these monologues are not suitable for young children.

Compiled by Robin Malan, Diana Wilson and David Fick ISBN 978-0-9921791-6-8 Soft cover perfect bound 128 pages 210 x 137 mm 2013 A second annotated collection of 30 monologues from Southern Africa suitable for young adult female and male performers as audition pieces or examination solo pieces. The co-compilers are experienced Drama and English teachers. Many of these monologues are not suitable for young children. ‘This is a lovely initiative to further advance South African theatre and playwrights.’ – Ismail Mahomed, Artistic Director, National Arts Festival ‘I am so glad you are doing this.’ – Alison Green, Drama Teacher, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls ‘I love the fact that young actors will be able to tackle these monologues – very exciting! I think this is a wonderful initiative.’ – Paul Slabolepszy, playwright ‘SO good that you’re doing these – very, very valuable work done with great vision!’ – Mike van Graan, playwright ‘Both books will be perfect for our department.’ – Shirley Johnston, Senior Lecturer, Acting Department, City Varsity

JUNKETS10SERIES Bruce J Little: Little Poof! homonologues ISBN 978-0-9946791-9-2 Soft cover saddlestitched 56 pages 207 x 137 mm 2017 Casting: M1 multi / F3 M14 This is a collection of queer-themed monologues for the whole ‘family’. Bruce J Little performed a number of LGBTI comedy-cabaret shows all around South Africa for several years, dealing with some challenging issues. This is a compilation of a number of the monologues that featured in these shows. ‘It’s fun, it’s a laugh and it’s deeply moving.’ – MambaOnline

Compiled by Robin Malan and Ashraf Johaardien ISBN 978-0-620-45828-3 Soft cover perfect bound 176 pages 210 x 137 mm 2010 Second Impression 2010 Available in a printed version and as an eBook. What it’s like to be South African, and male, and gay: the experiences of some forty writers in stories, poems, letters, diary-entries, SMSes and emails. Among the stories they tell are of first love in the face of colour legislation that outlaws it, love that blossoms despite religious injunctions against it, a chance finding of a condom in the jacket pocket of a life partner, the sheer fun of being young and gay in an early morning that makes Cape Town look gorgeous … ‘A must-read … an incredible who’s who of the gay firmament.’ – Maureen Isaacson, Sunday Independent ‘This deftly compiled volume is long overdue … a laudable and enriching collection.’ – Wilhelm Snyman, Cape Times ‘… highly enjoyable collection … our stories told in our own voices … I could not put this book down until I had read it all.’ – Evan Tsouroulis, Exit