{"product_id":"9781067181949","title":"Athol Fugard and the Serpent Players: Theatre against Apartheid, by Rory Riordan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Serpent Players were an amateur theatre group formed in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), in the early 1960s, made up of Black workers, teachers and clerks who began making plays with Athol Fugard. Out of that partnership came some of the most important South African theatre of the apartheid years, including the work that became \u003cem\u003eSizwe Bansi is Dead\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Island\u003c\/em\u003e, and members of the group were jailed, banned and harassed for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRory Riordan tells the story of the group and its members, and of theatre as a form of resistance in the Eastern Cape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rory Riordan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mandela University Press (distributed by African Sun Media)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mandela University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50992994124034,"sku":"9781067181949","price":400.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/9781067181949","provider":"Bridge Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}