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Its in partly in english and partly in the indigenous language xhosa. As agreed, two weeks later carmen meets with the nowlovestruck cop at. Trailer of ucarmen ekhayelitsha, a xhosa adaptation of bizets opera. Apr 02, 2015 the companys staging of bizets masterpiece is inspired by isango cofounder mark dornfordmays movie ucarmen ekhayelitsha, which set the opera in a south african township. Funded out of a south african arts sponsorship, like tstosi, this has emerged from a township theatre project.
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