Performance

Venue	Riverside Studios
	Other spaces: Studios 1, 2 and 3, Cinema
Town	Outer London
County	Greater London
From	26th August 2005
Opened	1st September 2005
To	8th October 2005
When	19:45. Sun Mats 16:00
Prices	From £20.00. To £20.00.
What is currently on at Riverside Studios (V331)

Who Killed Mr Drum?

T034029501
In 1950s Jo'burg nothing stirs ... IT JUMPS! Can Themba is a man who lives for a party - illegal booze, gangsters slang, the fizz of jazz music and the thrill of a knife fight - all pepper the wicked prose of Drum Magazine's 'Shakespeare of the Shebeens'. And Drum's Chief Reporter, Henry Nxumalo, parties harder than anyone. But now Sophiatown is being cleared for white housing. Henry lies dead with twenty-three stab wounds. And Can's flaunting the law by loving a white girl ... Who Killed Mr. Drum? brings apartheid South Africa's black underbelly jumping to life, and counts the cost of one man's struggle to avoid opposition. Age 14+

Author	Fraser Grace
Author	Sylvester Stein

Archive :: production:T034029501, play:S0559489910, venue:V331

Production details

Running time 2 hours plus interval. Studio 2. Part of Black History Month

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

Producer	Andrew Fishwick
Producer	Sarah Trahearn
Producer	Paul Robinson
Company	Treatment Theatre
Director	Paul Robinson
Design	Francisco Rodriguez-Weil
Music	Juwan Ogungbe
Lighting	Ben Ormerod
Sound	Paul Groothius
Director	Bernadette Iglich (movement)
Director	Andile Sotiya (movement)
Director	Terry King (fight)
Performer	Sello Maake Ka-Ncube (Can Themba)
Performer	Stephen Billington (Sylvester Stein)
Performer	Wela Frasier (Bob)
Performer	Marcel McCalla (Casey)
Performer	Lucian Msamati (Zeke)

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