STAGEWORLD PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS ‘SORROWS AND REJOICINGS’ BY: ATHOL FUGARD In an old house in a small country town three women gather in the presence of a stinkwood table and their powerful memories of Dawid Olivier, the man they have just buried. Allison is his widow, Marta was his lover and Rebecca the daughter he had by Marta. Although thousands of South Africans elected to leave the country for political and moral reasons during the apartheid years, SORROWS AND REJOICINGS is one of the few plays to have addressed the subject of exile. Dawid Olivier discovers that exile is a poisoned chalice. To be severed from your country and people can mean the creative death of a writer. This was Dawid’s fate. He feels and expresses his love for the country more intensely than any of Fugard’s other characters. What Allison says to Rebecca about Dawid could also be said of Athol Fugard’s bequest to our nation. ‘What you turned to ash and smoke out there in the veld was evidence of a man’s love, for his country, for his people – for you! Don’t reject it! (Anthony Akerman.) This masterful play will not leave the audiences unaffected – it is Fugard at his best! He once again manages to let you sit back and take stock of yourself and everything around you. The director, Marlene Thomasse-Pieterse, has directed and played in a number of Fugard’s works but this she views as a rare ‘gift’. A very special cast has been assembled to work in this production. Tammany Barton, back from London and on her way to Johannesburg, plays Allison, Dawid’s wife, Ranique Hendricks is Marta, his lover and Gabriella Pietersen is Rebecca, their daughter. George van Rooyen plays the writer, Dawid Olivier. SORROWS AND REJOICINGS will be staged in the Barn Theatre of the PE Opera House on 15, 16 and 19 June and thereafter moves to the Savoy Theatre for performances on the 22 and 24 June. Book at Computicket.
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