Woza Albert!

About this book

Woza Albert! is one of the most popular and influential plays to have emerged from the South African cultural struggle of the 1980s, and it remains a central work in the canon of South African theatre. Based on the idea of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ taking place in apartheid South Africa, the playwrights improvised a brilliant two-man show consisting of 26 vignettes that comment on and satirize life under the apartheid regime. The play has become one of the most anthologized and produced South African plays both in South Africa and internationally, and it is widely studied in schools as well as universities.