Athol Fugard

Drama

2m, 1f

Platform w. drop.

In South Africa a black slum school principal and a white librarian are in love - a love prohibited under the state's Immorality Act. They're caught and arrested, but the play's focus is not on the arrest itself but on the couple and the shadow between them - a crippling one stripping them of their dignity and self respect. Theirs is not only a forbidden love that must be hidden, but one so fragile and painful due to conditions not of their making. After the arrest, they alternately perform a kind of piteous psychological stripping of themselves and finally the black man wrenchingly describes the complete moral devastation the state has inflicted on him and his people.

"Touching, moving and beautiful." N.Y. Times

FEE: $75 per performance.