Umm...Somebody Say Something/Venus Hottentot

Work:: Umm...Somebody Say Something/Venus Hottentot (S050005364)

Two plays tackling past and present issues of black South Africa. Umm...Somebody Say Something explores the struggle for identity of five young women in a new South Africa. An honest celebration of life, womanhood, love and pain. Venus Hottentot tells the remarkable, shocking true story of Sara Baartmaan, a young Koisan woman shipped to England in 1810 to star in a circus of fascination for a European public obsessed by her large buttocks, she live only five more years, her skeleton preserved in Paris.

Listing:: L582602391

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