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"Dramatic, moving...see it"
The Sunday Independent, South Africa
"Perhaps the most important play I’ve written"
Athol Fugard, 2010
An emotionally disturbed train driver wanders into the graveyard of a desolate squatter camp on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth. There he meets Simon Hanabe, a gravedigger, who buries the nameless dead. The train driver is trying to find the grave of a nameless woman and child.
This powerful and haunting new play by Athol Fugard is dedicated to Pumla Lolwana and her three children - Lindani, Andile and Sesanda - who died on the railway tracks between Philippi and Nyanga on The Cape Flats on Friday December 8th 2000
Read our news item on the coverage the play has received.
Year of production: 2010
Writer and Director: Athol Fugard
Producer: Eric Abraham
Cast: Sean Taylor, Owen Sejake
Co-Director: Ross Devenish
Designer: Saul Radomsky
Lighting Designer: Mannie Manim
Music Director: Mandisi Dyantyis
Production Manager: Daniel Galloway
Stage Manager: Marisa Steenkamp
Assistant Stage Manager: Queen Jacob
Lighting Operator: Moegamat Cloete
PA to Athol Fugard : Kate Ascott-Evans
Set Builder: Gerhard Morkel
Set Painter: Jesse Kramer