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Woza Albert! ("Come Albert!") is a satirical South African political play written by , Mbongeni Ngema, and Barney Simon in 1981. The play is a two-man show that contains 26 vignettes. The play imagines the second coming of Jesus Christ during the apartheid-era as experienced by a variety of black South Africans. Written as a piece of protest theater, Woza Albert! sought to confront the inequalities and oppression of apartheid South Africa. Woza Albert! was turned into a film and is a prime example of Workshop Theatre movement in South Africa and became one of the most produced South African plays within South Africa and internationally. The play is highly praised for its use of humor and ability to illuminate and critique the systematic oppression of black South Africans under the aparthei

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rdfs:comment	Woza Albert! ("Come Albert!") is a satirical South African political play written by , Mbongeni Ngema, and Barney Simon in 1981. The play is a two-man show that contains 26 vignettes. The play imagines the second coming of Jesus Christ during the apartheid-era as experienced by a variety of black South Africans. Written as a piece of protest theater, Woza Albert! sought to confront the inequalities and oppression of apartheid South Africa. Woza Albert! was turned into a film and is a prime example of Workshop Theatre movement in South Africa and became one of the most produced South African plays within South Africa and internationally. The play is highly praised for its use of humor and ability to illuminate and critique the systematic oppression of black South Africans under the aparthei (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	Barney Simon David M. Thompson Josette Bushell-Mingo Ubu and the Truth Commission Mbongeni Ngema Christopher Hurst (actor) Gi Ju-bong 1981 in literature 1983 Laurence Olivier Awards Lucille Lortel

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