TY - BOOK ID - 85468537 TI - Mooi Street and other moves PY - 2017 SN - 1776141601 1776141598 PB - Johannesburg : Wits University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Race relations KW - Political plays, South African (English) KW - Apartheid KW - Drama. KW - South Africa KW - Separate development (Race relations) KW - Segregation KW - Anti-apartheid movements KW - Post-apartheid era KW - Political plays, English KW - South African political plays (English) KW - South African drama (English) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85468537 AB - This collection of six plays by one of South Africa's leading playwrights/actors features works written between 1984 and 1993. Slabolepszy, who has won many awards in South Africa and abroad both for his plays and his performances in them, is a master of dialogue, capturing the essence of the personality and speech patterns of his protagonists in language that is often dramatic, frequently funny, sometimes tragic and always entertaining. The works included are Under the Oaks, Over the Hill, Boo to the Moon, Smallholding, Mooi Street Moves and The Return of Elvis du Pisanie. Elvis won Slabolespzy the 1992/93 IGI Life Vita Award for Play of the Year and, together with Mooi Street Moves, gained him the Vita Playwright of the Year award. This collection is introduced by Robert Greig, a well-known theatre critic, and by Bobby Heaney who has been involved in the evolution of several of Slabolepszy's plays. ER -