Home

Synopsis

Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, Home is an American folklore of one man's struggle to remain true to himself in a changing world. Cephus Miles loves "the land, the soft beautiful black sod," and after the deaths of the grandfather and uncle who reared him, it is in the land that he finds solace. However, trouble comes quickly beginning with the loss of his childhood sweetheart to another man, being jailed as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War and losing his farm to taxes. Cephus travels north to escape but his past catches up with him sending his life spiralling downward finally ending with him living rough on the city streets. Will God who's "on vacation in Miami" ever take pity on him?

Our Review:

12 November 2012

As you wander through Peckham's Copeland Industrial Park on your way to The Last Refuge, women from the neighbouring Evangelical Church also wander the alleyway in white dresses to the backdrop of gospel singing from the other warehouses leading onto the courtyard.

It is an exciting, hybrid place to stage Home, Samm-Art Williams' 1979 drama about an African American from rural North Carolina: the first time visitor likely wondering whether the women are part of the production, especially when gospel singing from actors Pearl Mackie and Shvorne Marks - also in white dresses - opens the show.

The Last Refuge, a new theatre where companies do not have to pay to perform, has a welcoming feel. Once we are comfortably tucked in with blankets, director Vik Sivalingam's production expands the corner of a Peckham warehouse into a farm in North Carolina: The street and bars in a bustling metropolis; the Greyhound bus, “a negro institution” taking passen...

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