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THEATRE
The Train Driver
Venue: The Fugard Theatre, Caledon St, District 6.
Tel: (021) 461 4554.
Time: Tue - Sat @ 7:30pm, Sun @ 3:30pm
Price: Tue: R50; Wed - Thu: R80; Fri & Sat: R120; Sun: R80
Performances: 19 Mar - 18 Apr 2010
Genre: Drama
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The Train Driver, a new play written and directed by iconic
South African theatre master Athol Fugard, will have its world premičre on
24 March 2010 at the new Fugard Theatre in Cape Town’s District Six, with
preview performances from 19 March.
“For me, it is the biggest of them all,” said the 77-year old Fugard,
currently in the country for rehearsals of the new play.
The Train Driver is set in an Eastern Cape graveyard outside Motherwell.
Sean Taylor plays Rudolf Visagie, an emotionally disturbed train driver
wandering into the graveyard of a desolate squatter camp near Port
Elizabeth, trying to find the grave of a nameless woman and child. Owen
Sejake is Simon Hanabe, a gravedigger who buries the nameless dead.
The play 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 8 December 2000.
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In an online interview Fugard refers to his latest play as
“...a very stark reality about the state of South Africa.”
After each preview performance there will be a question-and-answer session
with Athol Fugard and the cast. It will be an opportunity for the audience
to talk to Athol Fugard, co-director Ross Devenish, and actors Owen Sejake
and Sean Taylor about the production.
Recognised for hard-hitting, yet compassionate, political and social
commentary in his work, Fugard is renowned for writing a number of
internationally acclaimed plays including No-Good Friday (1958), Hello and
Goodbye (1965), People are Living There (1968), Boesman and Lena (1969),
Sizwe Banzi is dead, Statements after an arrest under the Immorality Act
(1972), The Island (1973), Master Harold and the Boys (1982), The Road to
Mecca (1984), My Children! My Africa! (1989), Sorrows and Rejoicing (2001)
and Booitjie and the Oubaas (2006). The Oscar-winning film Tsotsi (2006)
was also based on the novel by Fugard.
Some of Fugard’s other recent plays include Have you seen us? (2009) and
Coming Home (2009), which is the sequel to Valley Song (1996).
Fugard currently lives in Southern California in the USA. He also owns a
home in the Karoo, which he visits frequently.
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