Acts: 2, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)
...Years ago, Veronica Jonkers departed for the big city in the brave New South Africa, set on making her dreams of fame and fortune come true.
In Coming Home, Veronica returns to Nieu Bethesda several years later to die of AIDS...
...Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre's most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950's South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him...
...Set in a South African traveling amusement park on New Year’s Eve, Athol Fugard’s “Playland” explores the possibilities for blacks and whites to find understanding in a racially divided world. A volatile dialogue begins when two men -...
Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)
...Two women meet in a small Karoo village after the funeral of Dawid, the man they both loved. One is white and was his wife. The other is black and the mother of his child. Dawid, who was driven into exile because of his political activism...
Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)
...On board the SS Graigaur a young sailor begins to pen his first novel. Assisted by his muse, a portrait of his mother come to life, and supported by his friend, an illiterate ship's mechanic, he struggles to balance romance and reality...
Acts: 2, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)
...Aging farm labourer Nukain has spent his life transforming the rocks at Revolver Creek into a vibrant garden of painted flowers. Now, the final unpainted rock, as well as his young companion Bokkie, has forced Nukain to confront his legacy...
...When her husband dies, aging Miss Helen begins to fill her home in the remote South African bush with strange sculptures made from beer cans and old headlights. A local clergyman and a young woman visitor try to decide whether Miss Helens...
Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)
...When Oupa is visited by his ten-year-old grandson (who is playing hooky from school) the two spend a memorable afternoon together. The boy reminds the old man of his lost sense of wonder, while the child is given a bit of hard-earned...
Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)
...Roelf, a train driver, has spent weeks searching for the identities of a mother and child he unintentionally killed with his train. After a fruitless journey through shanty towns, he encounters an old gravedigger named Simon who helps...