Kristal Vlakte

Kristal Vlakte was part of the 2016 Suidoosterfees and was performed on the main stage of the Fugard and opened on 29 April 2016. From the shreds of war, Priscilla hawks for her and her family ʼn life together. The community thrives at the intersection of political orders, gang bosses, and religious leaders. Sometimes there are islands of peace, as in any good war. But war is like love: it will find a way. And as long as blood pressure beats, Priscilla’s smuggling business will survive, in the back streets of history. Amy Jephta’s epic play told the story of a community and a story much larger than that of individual characters.

This reworking of Bertholt Brecht’s Mother Courage offered no simple answers but cuts social reality open to the bone.