Amaza at Artscape Theatre

As part of the Artscape educational programme, the grade 12 isiXhosa set-work play, Amaza by ZS Qangule, is in its sixth consecutive season. It will once again be presented as a full professionally staffed stage production that will also appeal to the general public.

Amaza is a thriller set in a rural village in the Transkei. A police detective stationed in Port Elizabeth is investigating a private and personal matter. This case takes him back to the village where he and the woman he married came from. His visit there coincides with the double funeral of a couple that were mysteriously murdered in Johannesburg.
Adultery, deceit and lies are just some of the ingredients of this intriguing tale. His investigation takes him to Johannesburg, then to Swaziland and back to Port Elizabeth. As he is trying to solve the mystery, he stumbles across the evidence he was looking for in the first place.