Junkets Press recently published Robin Malan’s A Sillie Shakspur Quizze (illustrated by Andre Trantaal).
Billed as a book for “the family lounge” as much as “the classroom or the lecture-hall”, this quiz is full of fun facts and quirky insights into all things Shakespearean!
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About the compiler:
Robin Malan (born 1940) has spent his working life in education, theatre and publishing. He is known for his theatre work at Cape Town High School in the 1960s (particularly his Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet) and at Waterford Kamhlaba United World College in Swaziland in the 1970s and 1980s (where he directed, among others, an Africanised The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Tartuffe, Little Malcolm and His Struggle against the Eunuchs, and The Biko Inquest). He was the artistic director of CAPAB’s theatre-in-education company in 1970-71, and the artistic director of Pact Playwork theatre-in-education company from 1972–78. Among his compilations of plays for schools are: South African Plays for TV, Radio and Stage; and Short, Sharp & Snappy: Southern African plays for high schools 1 and 2. From 2007, as Junkets Publisher, he and Andi Mgibantaka have published over sixty new southern African plays as individual playscripts and more than ten anthologies in the Collected Series.