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African Gothic review " incest and madness in Afrikaaner horror story by Michael Billington

Park theatre, LondonTwo siblings in an isolated farmhouse role-play traumatic episodes from their childhood in this flesh-creeping metaphor for colonial declineThis play certainly delivers what it says on the tin. It's an early work, dating from 1986, by the prolific South African playwright Reza de Wet, who died of leukaemia in 2012. While many of her plays offer subtle variations on Chekhov, this one is an all-too-…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AM on January 6, 2016

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