The stage play titled ‘and the girls in their Sunday dresses’ by Zinzi Mhlongo speaks to the issues of time waited and the inefficiency of mass public service systems.
Premiering at the Soweto theatre, the show of just two characters grabbed the crowd’s attention with its interactive dialogue, song and movements.
The show starts with the two ladies, a domestic worker and a prostitute, waking up on the third day in a queue still waiting for cheap rice.
They sat and waited while watching the administrative staff walk up and down going in and out of lunch in their beautiful Sunday dresses, but yet another day passes with without them being served the rice they came to buy.
Trucks from big companies came and left and wasted no time yet the two women who represent the public waited another day and slept the night without being served.
On the fifth day the rice was finally ready for purchasing but in order for them to buy it they have to fill in forms and submit at a number of lines.
At the end of it all the two ladies decided that enough was enough, they had been made fools for too long and left the wholesale empty handed.
Diphapang Mokoena who was part of the audience said that he enjoyed the show because it speaks to him and about something he goes through every day.
“We all have to queue for all sorts of reasons like at a bank for instance, and in most cases we are as powerless as those two characters.
“The show has empowered me in a sense to take action towards what is right for me, If I don’t want something or don’t like something then I must definitely do something about it,” Mokoena said.
