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Description for Tin Bucket Drum
Paperback. In Tin Bucket Drum, Neil Coppen achieves a small miracle. Through his lyrical script and the creative use of lighting and sound, one woman, the Narrator, succeeds in evoking a host of characters as this allegorical tale of oppression and liberation plays itself out. It is a story that offers a host of lessons for many places and many times. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 125. Weight in Grams: 85000.
On a ""cold and starless night"" a young pregnant widow, Nandi, arrives in Tin Town, a bleak, drought-stricken place ruled by silence and fear. Little do the inhabitants know that Nandi is carrying the baby who will, in time, change all that. Taken in by Umkhulu (grandfather), whose father established the tin bucket factory that gave the town its name, Nandi gives birth to Nomvula, the Little Drummer Girl. Umkhulu remembers a past when 'people were free to sing and dance', when the rain came and the townsfolk held up their tin buckets to catch the precious, life-giving drops. And ... Read more
On a ""cold and starless night"" a young pregnant widow, Nandi, arrives in Tin Town, a bleak, drought-stricken place ruled by silence and fear. Little do the inhabitants know that Nandi is carrying the baby who will, in time, change all that. Taken in by Umkhulu (grandfather), whose father established the tin bucket factory that gave the town its name, Nandi gives birth to Nomvula, the Little Drummer Girl. Umkhulu remembers a past when 'people were free to sing and dance', when the rain came and the townsfolk held up their tin buckets to catch the precious, life-giving drops. And ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Wits University Press South Africa
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781868149728
SKU
V9781868149728
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Neil Coppen
Neil Coppen is an award-winning playwright who lives between the cities of Durban and Johannesburg where he works as a writer, director and designer. He won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Drama in 2011 and was nominated on the 2011 Mail & Guardian's 200 most influential Young South Africans. His play Abnormal Loads won the 2012 Naledi Award ... Read more
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