Music, Dance, Storytelling, and Drama! This is what Nhlanhla John Lata's Musical Play, The Driver had to offer. A play set in a bus destined for Durban, centred around the life stories of three womxn from different but similar backgrounds. With an energetic yet sloppy (in the handling of props) musical opening, the three womxn played by Busisiwe Tsoaledi, Lindokuhle Ngomane, and Khabonina Magasela were able to capture the attention of the audience. Song and dance were the crux of all the experiences the womxn had been through, lightening the seriousness and easing the mind of the audience as these womxn's issues layered up. The play still needs to grow, delve into the realities of what womxn go through and maybe change the focal point of Adam and Eve wherein men are the crux of these womxn's stories, and in that, the actors need to be one with the characters. In as much as they are representing womxn out there, we need to see them drive the womxn in this play and give th...
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