Playland by Athol Fugard
Sat 21st February 7.30pm
£10 (£8 Concessions) and £5 students
New Perspectives present
Playland
By Athol Fugard
Directed by Jack McNamara
New Year's Eve. An amusement park. Two strangers meet in the dead of night. Welcome to Playland...
In the heart of rural South Africa, a travelling amusement park has opened its gates. With the country in the grips of a brutal Apartheid regime, the park promises an evening of thrills and laughter.
Martinus, a black South African, is the amusement park's night-watchmen. Gideon, a white Afrikaner and ex-serviceman, has come along for a good night out. When they find themselves face to face, their encounter is charged with history and danger.
Athol Fugard is one of the world's most performed living playwrights, and a fearless chronicler of South Africa and its troubled history. Playland is one of his most personal and rarely performed plays; gripping, comic and deeply moving.