Coming Home
From: Tuesday, 8th June 2010
To: Saturday, 3 July 2010
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Synopsis
Veronika Jonkers left her beloved Grandfather's farm to pursue the dream of a singing career in Cape Town. Carrying a painful secret and a heart filled with disappointment she returns after his death and strives to plant the seeds of a new life for her infant son. Fugard once again tell a story that finds hope in human relationships and in the power of the imagination.
Our Review:
15 June 2010
Away from the celebratory flag-waving and vuvuzela-blowing of the World Cup, a much darker aspect of South African life is on show at the Arcola Theatre. Protean Productions’ British premiere of Athol Fugard’s Coming Home is a moving but unsentimental reminder of the severe problems of AIDS and poverty which beset the nation in the post-apartheid era.
This play is the sequel to Fugard’s 1996 work Valley Song, in which Veronica Yonkers leaves her simple life with her gardener grandfather Oupa in a Karoo desert village to try and make a career as a singer in Cape Town. As its title suggests, in Coming Home Veronica returns after several years away, though now her grandfather is dead and she has a young son.
As she tells her old school friend Alfred, her dreams have turned to a nightmare in the big city; struggling to cope with her baby by herself after his father was killed in a fight, she entered a downward spiral of drinking and...
Creative
Athol Fugard (Author)
Protean Productions (Producer)
Cordelia Monsey (Producer)
Cordelia Monsey (Director)
Victoria Johnstone (Design)
Michael Nabarro (Lighting)
Marcus Christian (Sound)
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