Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating: Three Satires

Zakes Mda

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Three Satires

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Zakes Mda, Ohio University

Publisher:: Wits University Press
Online publication date:: May 2019
Print publication year:: 2002
Online ISBN:: 9781868146369

Subjects:: Drama and Theatre: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies

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Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection from one of South Africa's leading writes. The Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is a grinding satire on materialism in which the protagonist gets his come-uppance. You Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? is an unbridled study in grotesquerie, reflecting a belief, traceable throughout Mda's work, that government by those who inherit a revolution is almost inevitably, in the first decade or two, hi-jacked by the smart operators. The Bells of Amersfoort, with its graphic portrayal of the isolation imposed by exile, picks up on the themes of the other two plays but adds to them the concept of 'healing', both of the soul and of the land, in a lyrical work which holds out more hope than do its companions in this volume. The plays are introduced by Rob Amato, who directed much of Mda's earlier work.

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Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating

Three Satires

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

Frontispiece
pp iv-iv

Introduction
pp v-xxii

The Mother of All Eating
pp 1-2

Scene One
pp 3-6

Scene Two
pp 6-17

Scene Three
pp 17-22

Scene Four
pp 23-38

You Fool, How Can the Sky Fall?
pp 39-40

Cast
pp 41-41

Scene One
pp 42-53

Scene Two
pp 53-67

Scene Three
pp 67-82

Scene Four
pp 82-110

The Bells of Amersfoort
pp 111-112

Cast
pp 113-113

Scene One
pp 114-119

Scene Two
pp 120-123

Scene Three
pp 123-128

Scene Four
pp 129-131

Scene Five
pp 132-134

Scene Six
pp 134-138

Scene Seven
pp 139-142

Scene Eight
pp 142-147

Scene Nine
pp 148-152

Scene Ten
pp 152-155

Scene Eleven
pp 155-156

Scene Twelve
pp 156-161

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