Transcending This one-act play takes a critical look at family relationships within a conventional middle class framework, and draws attention to the inability to communicate effectively. It presents a satirical view of the traditional nuclear family, depicting the adults, usually supposed to command respect and authority, as figures of ridicule. All of them have a […]

David Cregan: “Transcending” and Maureen Duffy: “Rites”   Voll abgründiger Heiterkeit (Salzburger Nachrichten, 05/05/1994) “Bewundernswert, was die Darsteller und Darstellerinnen in der kühlen Atmosphäre des Markussaals mit minimalem technischen Aufwand und in spärlich angedeutetem Bühnenbild zuwege gebracht haben.”

In a South African country town in the Platteland an inter-school debate is taking place between Zolile High and Camdeboo Girls’ High, and its stars are Thami Mbikwana, a boy from the black school, and Isabel Dyson, a girl from the white school. Inspired by the success of this debate, Mr M, the black teacher, […]