Botsotso 20: Drama. The Dramas of Life is an anthology of eight South African plays drawn from the last decade (2008 -18) and engages with personal dilemmas and social realities.

The themes reflect the general unravelling of the 1994 political settlement as racism, poverty and inequality, patriarchy, violence against women and LGBT people, the failure to provide quality education and high levels of corruption, expose widening fault lines. They display great energy and dramatic virtuosity in their exploration of these and other themes and create vivid characters who transcend the rhetorical.

The plays included are “Isithunzi” by Sipho Zakwe; “Sleeping Dogs” by Simphiwe Vikilahle; “The Good Candidate” by Hans Pienaar; “Shoes and Coups” by Palesa Mazamisa; “Book Marks” by Allan Kolski Horwitz; “The Couch” by Sjaka Septembir; “Iziyalo Zikamama” by the Botsotso Ensemble and “Finding Me” by Moeketsi Kgotle.