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BaxterJunkets Series No. 3 Khayalethu Anthony: The Champion
Product Details
Soft cover perfect bound 54 pages 197 x 130 mm 2015
Casting: M1 multi / F5 M5
Winner of the Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Baxter Theatre Centre
2014
Winner of Best Script Award, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Baxter Theatre Centre 2014
Winner of Outstanding Artist Award, Zabalaza Theatre Festival, Baxter Theatre
Centre 2014
Winner of Fresh Award for Writing to Khayalethu Anthony, Cape Town Fringe
Festival 2017
Khayalethu Anthony nominated for Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Play,
Fleur du Cap Awards 2014
Khayalethu Anthony nominated for Best Performance in a One-Person Play, Fleur
du Cap Awards 2014
Khayalethu Anthony 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
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