Sorrows and Rejoicings

Directed – Athol Fugard

Designed – Susan Hilferty

Lighting – Mannie Manim

Cast includes – Amrain Ismail-Essop, Denise Newman, Jennifer Steyn, Marius Weyers

Acclaimed South African playwright Athol Fugard is one of the true contemporary masters of the stage.  His new play, Sorrows and Rejoicings, explores the legacy of the Apartheid on two women – one white, the other black – who on the surface seem to have little in common except their love of one man, a white poet who attached to the Karoo land and the peoples of his birth.  The moving story moves fluidly between the past and present, reliving his despondent years in exile and his eventual return to a new South Africa.  With lyrical grace, Fugard once again demonstrates the human struggle to transcend the treacherous injustices of history.