Serpent Players South Africa?

Question

Tell me about the Serpent Players. I am talking about the South African performance group who worked with Athol Fugard.

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Answer 1

The Serpent Players were a group of actors whose first performance was in the former snake pit of the zoo (hence the name) in Port Elizabeth, in 1965. John Kani was a member of the group, while Athol Fugard (behind Shakespeare, being the playwright whose works are most performed) later became the director of the group.

Another notable member of the group was Winston Ntshona with whom Fugard and Kani created "Sizwe Bansi is Dead" and "The Island" which would go on to win international acclaim. In those years the prolific Fugard also wrote "Hello and Goodbye" and "Boesman and Lena".

In black areas all over the country theatre groups came and went, many of them snuffed out by the political harassment and sometimes the indefinite detention of their participants. The same fate awaited the Serpent Players, but theatres started emanating from the unions, from the Black Consciousness movement, from the collaborative efforts of Fugard, Kani and Ntshona, from Kente, and from a multitude of university and fringe groups.