Bøger af Junction Avenue Theatre Company

'Why bother to rob a bank, when you can own a bank?' asked Bertold Brecht. The question is reiterated in the very Brechtian Love, Crime and Johannesburg, the story of Jimmy 'Long Legs' Mangane, a people's poet involved in the struggle, who is accused of robbing a bank.

Until its destruction by government decree in the mid-1950s, Sophiatown was the ""Chicago of South Africa"". The play, based on the life history of the township, opened in Johannesburg in February 1986. This edition includes an introduction which sets the play in its historical context.