My Children!
My Africa!
by Athol Fugard
directed by Blanka Zizka
December 6, 2006 - January 7, 2007
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My Children!
“…profoundly stirring.”
-Los Angeles Times
The cast, playwright, and director
“Athol
Fugard has created theater of power, glory, and majestic language.”
-The New York Times
Athol Fugard, praised by The New Yorker as “a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize,” confronts the tragedy of apartheid in his native land of South Africa in this compelling and hopeful tale. A humble teacher in a segregated township is determined to match his most gifted student with an enthusiastic white schoolgirl in an English literature competition. As the drilling for the competition advances and political unrest worsens, friendships become colored by impassioned debates, and the three characters struggle to find resolution to South Africa’s racial and social divides.
Starring Glynn Turman (Cooley High, HBO’s The Wire, and recipient of the NAACP’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Theatre), Meghan Heimbecker, and Yaegel Welch.
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