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South Africa's only opera company updates Porgy and Bess and moves the story from the 1920s American deep south to1970s apartheid Soweto.

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Cape Town's theatre group, Isango Portobello, stage a production called The Mysteries - Yiimimangaliso, a South African version of the European Mystery plays popular in the 15th century. Using song, dance and drama, it stages key events from the Christian Bible, accompanied by percussion played on everything from spoons to oil drums. Singer Pauline Malefane talks about her role playing God and Jesus.

Margaret Atwood discusses her latest novel, The Year of the Flood, and why she's turned her book tour into a literary performance.

Singaporean theatre director Ong Keng Sen discusses his new production of 'Diaspora' ahead of its European premier at the Edinburgh International Festival. Using personal stories the multimedia project explores stories of migration, displacement and notions of home and identity.

The choreographer Merce Cunningham has died - aged 90. He was amongst the most influential choreographers of the 20th century and was at the forefront of the american avant-garde for more than 50 years. The Strand talks to dance critic Deborah Crane in tribute.

A rare glimpse behind the scenes of the arts in Zimbabwe as two exiled actors, Denton Chikura and Tonderai Munyevu, discuss and perform an extract of the play that came out of their experience of returning home - reflecting the hopes and aspirations of its people.

Karoo Moose is a powerful new play from South Africa which tackles the subjects of rape, family trauma and loss of innocence. The writer and director Lara Foot Newton talks to Tim Marlow.

With productions of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot performing in London's West End and on Broadway in New York, The Strand explores our continuing fascination with the play.

The classic American musical West Side Story is back on Broadway - but this is the first time that mainstream audiences have been able to watch a bilingual version. BBC reporter Andrew Purcell examines whether this is enough to make the story relevant again.

The BBC's James Copnall takes us to Morocco, and to the first Cabaret club in Marrakech.

Written by Lorraine Hansberry 50 years ago, A Raisin in the Sun has become one of the greatest American dramas of the 20th Century.

American-born Taiwanese Stan Lai talks to Harriett Gilbert about his plays Writing in Water and The Village.

Almost 40 years ago in Britain, a Nigerian immigrant was found dead in a river. An investigation found that David Oluwale had endured months of police brutality. Writer Kester Aspden's book The Hounding of David Oluwale has inspired a new play.

Voted Most Promising Playwright at the London Evening Standards Theatre awards, the young American writer tells The Strand about his troubled upbringing and it's affect on his writing.

Obama: The Musical, a new hotly awaited show opens in Nairobi, Kenya.

Iraq's National Theatre reopens in Baghdad after five years.

Irish poet Seamus Heaney and West Indian writer Derek Walcott have teamed up to produce an opera.