What: 📅 MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!
When:
Where: 🕳 Soweto Theatre
How much:
🎟️ R100.00Webtickets
My Children! My Africa!" by Athol Fugard is a powerful play set in South Africa during the apartheid era. The story revolves around the complex relationships between Mr. M, a dedicated black teacher, Thami Mbikwana, his talented student, and Isabel Dyson, a white girl from a suburban school.
As Thami becomes increasingly disillusioned with the Bantu Education system
and joins a student organization advocating for violent resistance, the
differences between Mr. M and Thami become insurmountable. The play culminates
in tragedy, with Thami’s death and Isabel’s subsequent suicide.
Through this narrative, Fugard explores themes of education, racial identity,
conflict, freedom, and fear, shedding light on the larger social and political
issues of apartheid-era South Africa.