LOCKDOWN

110pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2022

A play for children.

“lockdown is a perfect vehicle for actors and directors. Warren’s dialogue and writing is fresh, concise, evocative and emotive ... lockdown highlights for me the magic and faith that children have in the world and how they deal with trauma, how they find their own way of navigating the world. The play brings Mother Earth and all her creatures into our midst ... with her earthy magic and understanding ... and we see the yearning for child play and escapism from a tragic event. lockdown is ethereal, emotional, empathetic and a true theatrical event.” Gys De Villiers, actor

Theatre director, writer, arts therapist and educator Warren Nebe is the Founding Director of Drama for Life and a senior lecturer in Dramatic Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, and Director of Themba Inter- active. He has facilitated and directed Kwanele, La Loba, Equus, Wolfboy, My Brother’s Bones, Sephiri se Dule, Sophiatown, Crocodile Tears, Mainane!, Hayani, Closer, Morwa – the rising son, AfriQueer: How the Stars Were Made, Storytime! and When Things Fall Together.