SONG FOR SOPHIATOWN

SONG FOR SOPHIATOWN | 1950s and 60s South Africa through the lens of pop culture.

Michael Charton's brand-new story, SONG FOR SOPHIATOWN, comes to london for the first time in November (Courthouse Hotel Theatre). The story explores 1950s and '60s South Africa through the lens of popular culture (music, theatre, journalism, and the church).

The story is a carefully crafted ode to the interwoven lives of Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Trevor Huddleston, Henry Nxumalo; Arthur Goldreich, and Desmond Tutu (amongst others). Performers, publishers, photographers and preachers, whose creativity roared in bold defiance of the cold, group-thinking of the state.

Here are a collection of astonishing lives whom (I believe) warrant an elevated space within our national story. For just as their contributions are beginning to fade from living memory, so too, their lessons in independent thinking have never been more pertinent.

We've had tremendous feedback from the story's launch in Cape Town and Johannesburg. It will be a special, memorable evening. A gathering of interesting South Africans and those curious about our story.

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