Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Tin Bucket Drum: Questions with Neil Coppen
- Selection of images from various performances
- Tin Bucket Drum: the play script
- Note on staging
- Scene 1 A celebration
- Scene 2 The journey
- Scene 3 Mkhulu's welcome
- Scene 4 A child is born
- Scene 5 Awakening
- Scene 6 Sermon
- Scene 7 Silent confinement
- Scene 8 Mkhulu's story
- Scene 9 Integration
- Scene 10 Problem child
- Scene 11 Legacy
- Scene 12 Rehabilitation
- Scene 13 Community service
- Scene 14 Revolution
- Scene 15 Lullaby
Scene 3 - Mkhulu's welcome
from Tin Bucket Drum: the play script
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Tin Bucket Drum: Questions with Neil Coppen
- Selection of images from various performances
- Tin Bucket Drum: the play script
- Note on staging
- Scene 1 A celebration
- Scene 2 The journey
- Scene 3 Mkhulu's welcome
- Scene 4 A child is born
- Scene 5 Awakening
- Scene 6 Sermon
- Scene 7 Silent confinement
- Scene 8 Mkhulu's story
- Scene 9 Integration
- Scene 10 Problem child
- Scene 11 Legacy
- Scene 12 Rehabilitation
- Scene 13 Community service
- Scene 14 Revolution
- Scene 15 Lullaby
Summary
The NARRATOR puts on a crumpled hat, transforming herself into the benevolent old man, MKHULU, who ushers NANDI into his home, all the while glancing suspiciously over his shoulder to ensure no one is watching.
To indicate we are moving into an interior of a home, a window frame is projected on the shadow screen behind.
MKHULU [In a frightened whisper]: Woza … woza … woza … come … come in.
The old man shuts the door quietly behind him, dusting off surfaces as he goes. He places the table centre stage while untying the red sash and laying it over the table as a tablecloth. Although the room is sparse, it is clear that the old man takes enormous pride in his home. It would also seem from his enthusiasm that he has not entertained a guest here for many years.
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- Tin Bucket Drum , pp. 10Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2016