Playland
by Athol Fugard
Synopsis
Written by the powerful, dramatic voice of South Africa, Playland is set on New Year's Eve outside a Karoo town where a small, shabby travelling amusement park is encamped in the red clay dust.
Martinus Zoeloe, the black night watchman, is repainting a bumper car when Gideon le Rous wanders in.
He is white, a former army noncom whose car has stalled outside the park.
The park's bright lights will not go up till after dark.
The bumper car is being refurbished; Gideon needs Martinus' help to get his car started.
It's the eve of the century's final decade: the millennium approaches.
Press Reviews
"A metaphor set to the sad and sour music of apartheid."
— The New York Post
"Fugard provides some meaty, at times searing arias for both men."
— The New York Times
Publication
Playland is a play written by Athol Fugard and published by Samuel French (1994).
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Samuel French · 1994 · 63 pp
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