Who Killed Mr. Drum
By (Author) Fraser Grace
By (author) Sylvester Stein
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
30th August 2005
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Paperback
96
Width 130mm, Height 210mm
Sophiatown, South Africa: the 'golden' 1950s. Drum is South Africa's first ever black magazine, and for its two most vivacious and dynamic writers, it's business as usual. Can Themba, the 'Shakespeare of the Shebeens', is flouting the law with a mixed race liason, and Henry 'Mr Drum' Nxumalo is edging ever closer to danger with his unique style of investigative journalism. But when bulldozers begin to clear Sophiatown for white housing, it's not just rubble that comes crashing to earth....
Fraser Grace began writing for the stage whilst working for Back-to-Back Theatre, a Birmingham based touring company for which he also acted and directed. Perpetua was joint winner of the 1996 Verity Bargate Award. It was premiered at The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre in April 1999 in association with Soho Theatre Company.