Sophiatown is a lively and memorable drama with music that is being revived with a new, young
cast under the experienced eye of director Aubrey Sekhabi to delight today’s audiences with its
timeless music.

Sophiatown came to be known as the ‘Chicago of South Africa’, and a place where shebeen
queens, gangsters, politicians and black and white ‘Bohemians’ rubbed shoulders and traded
drinks in a heady atmosphere fizzing with music, style, and rebellion. This vibrant community
produced some of South Africa’s most famous musicians, artists, writers, journalists, and
politicians as urban African culture formed here during the repressive 1940s and 1950s.