SKIERLIK

49 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2014

A play based on the true story of a man who survives a white racist's attack on his settlement in 2008 but loses his wife and child. This play was the winner of the 2013 Baxter Zabalaza Festival.

In English.

"I left the Baxter with an immense respect for Phillip Dikotla for the skill with which he pulled off the retelling of a story that left raw wounds in the South African psyche...Yes, the story is searingly painful, but Dikotla does it an immense justice by bringing it back to life in this breathtakingly good performance." Marilu Snyders, What's On in Cape Town

Actor, playwright and stand-up comedian Phillip Dikotla was born in 1990 in the township of Mankweng in Limpopo Province. His first play, "Sekwatlapa", won a Naledi Award in 2010. He has also been awarded the Arts & Culture Trust ImpACT Award for his theatre work.