Dream of the Dog

Archive Listings for Dream of the Dog

T819682505 (FINBOROUGH10) Running time 90mins with no intervalCompany Meeting Point Productions Ltd (in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre). Director Katie McAleese. Design Alex Marker. Lighting Michael Nabarro. Sound Andrew Pontzen. Costume Pen O'Gara. Performer Janet Suzman. Performer Ariyon Bakare. Performer Gracy Goldman. Performer Bernard Kay.
26 May 10 to 19 Jun 10	Trafalgar Studios (previously the Whitehall), West End :: V420 listing details L1754457800
27 Apr 10 to 22 May 10	Finborough, Inner London :: V199 listing details L1930712296
T402947715 (OVAL06) Rehearsed readingProducer Oval House Theatre. Director James Albrecht. Performer Janet Suzman. Performer Sello Maake Ka-Ncube. Performer Thandi Zulu. Performer Peter Cartwright.
17 Nov 06	The Oval House, Inner London :: V239 listing details L1232857485

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Play :: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2009. Richard and Patricia Wiley, an elderly white couple, have sold their farm to developers. It is the evening before they are due to leave. Unexpectedly, one of their former black workers, ‘Look Smart’, turns up after a fifteen-year absence. Why did he leave all those years ago? What has brought him back? And why has he come now? Full of repressed violence, Look Smart no longer resembles the eager-to-please farm boy Patricia thinks she remembers so fondly. Now he has an agenda: to confront the events leading to his sudden departure from the farm, but, above all, to force Patricia to confront her true self. It soon becomes clear that he and Patricia have very different memories of the past and an equally subjective view of the present. Dream of the Dog is - in microcosm - a story of South Africa’s emerging democracy, challenging notions of truth and reconciliation, justice and revenge, memory and history. An unflinching look at the twin mantras of the post-Mandela age - reconciliation and forgiveness - asking whether they are indeed ever actually possible between black and white...

Author

Craig Higginson