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Tshepang: The Third Testament is a one-act play by South African playwright Lara Foot. It is a powerful, minimalist work that responds to the real-life rape of a nine-month-old baby (known as Baby Tshepang) in a remote Northern Cape community in 2001. Rather than sensationalising the crime, the play uses storytelling, symbolism and physical theatre to examine the social conditions that allowed such horror to occur — and the possibility of healing and responsibility

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