Long Wharf Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Managing Director Joan Channick, is pleased to announce the addition of the Athol Fugard one-act play Valley Song to the 2008-09 season.
The show will be performed in tandem with the East Coast premiere of Fugard's newest work, Victory. Victory and Valley Song will run from January 14 through February 8 on the Mainstage.
Valley Song and Victory, written a decade apart, illuminate an ever-changing new South Africa.
In Valley Song, Veronica is caught between her own dreams of a singing career in Johannesburg and her grandfather's deep love for tradition and the "akkers" he's farmed for their livelihood.
In Victory, a botched robbery exposes the complicated relationship between Vicky and Lionel, the white teacher for whom her mother once kept house: though they were once like family, a deep chasm of age, race and privilege now divides them.
Over a career spanning more than half a century, Athol Fugard - described by Time magazine as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" - has chronicled with poetry and humanity the struggles of his native South Africa.
Thirty-five years after Fugard's monumental collaboration Sizwe Banzi is Dead made its American premiere at Long Wharf Theatre, he returns with two stories of the dreams of youth and the ghosts of apartheid set against the backdrop of a small Karoo village. -- www.longwharf.org
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