Miss Margarida's Way opens

Miss Margarida's Way, a collaboration between Jessica Lejowa, director and lecturer in the drama division at South Africa's Witwatersrand University and Bongile Lecage-Zulu, actress and flautist, opens tomorrow at Maru-a-Pula's Moving Space, and will show until Saturday as part of the Maitisong Festival.

Miss Margarida's Way a play written in the 1970's by Brazilian Roberto Athayde, seeks to comment on the hypocrisy of power.  A statement from the two theatre practitioners says, "The play pokes at the decay of the pedagogical enterprise in our educational system and exposes to the audience the current age of obsession with disease, war, food, sex and information." The play is often set in a classroom, and is essentially a one-woman show to be with the teacher Miss Margarida to be played by Lecage-Zulu with the audience playing the students.