Mfuneli Ntumbuka, Sbuja Dywili and Ben Albertyn.
Experience a powerful retelling of a pivotal moment in South African history with 'Rise ’76', a poignant play that explores the legacy of the June 16th tragedy at the Baxter.
This is the final week that you can catch it (ends on Saturday, 30 May), before it transfers to The Market Theatre in Johannesburg.
This year marks 50 years since the tragedy, when hundreds of school children were killed in Soweto, and the photo of a deceased Hector Pieterson carried in the arms of Mbuyisa Makhubo with Hector’s sister Antoinette Sithole beside him shocked the world. Hector was 12.
The production, directed by Tiisetso Mashifane wa Noni, vividly captures the volatile environment between the Department of Bantu Education, the South African police, and a generation of school learners pushed to the brink of despair.
