"There will always be a white Africa and a black Africa," says one of the characters in this show produced by the Zimbabwean company Over the Edge. The play explores the identity and sense of self of people of all colours living in Africa today. It is a thoughtful piece, though its failure to deal with recent developments in Zimbabwe makes it like a jigsaw with a piece missing.
But there is a good argument that if we understand the people, we will understand the country. In the Johnston family, their loyal black servant Constance, and coloured Nigel, married to the Johnstons' daughter Julie, we are given a snapshot of the shifting social relations in Zimbabwe today. It is a play suffused in African music and "the sorrows, joys and trials" of ordinary people
Three actors use black-painted masks and direct, simple physical theatre to tell these entwining stories, and although the evening sometimes feels a little too linear, its examination of people caught up in the march of history cannot fail to move.
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