Written by Athol Fugard   Directed by Nigel Shawn Williams
Set/Costume Design by Shawn Kerwin   Lighting Design by Adair Redish

July 22 to August 21, Firehall Theatre

Set in South Africa, during the early apartheid days. The story deals with the coming of age of seventeen- year-old Hally.  Hally, a white South African, is torn between his bigoted biological father’s expectations of him and those of his surrogate fathers, black waiters named Sam and Willy.  Young Hally is obliged to laugh at his father’s racist jokes and perform humiliating tasks like empty chamber pots. By contrast, Sam exposes Hally to many positive experiences. After being humiliated by his father, Sam shows Hally how to be proud of something he’s achieved by helping him build and fly his own kite.  One day, Hally receives news that his real father, an alcoholic and violent person, is coming back home from a long stint in a hospital. Hally, distraught with this news, unleashes years of anger and pain on his two black friends.

Athol Fugard’s award-winning play is both funny and devastating in its portrayal of black-white relationships during the apartheid regime.  Audiences will never forget his description of the beauty of the ballroom dancing floor (“a world without collisions”) as a transcendent metaphor for life.

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