Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act

Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act

Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act

Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act

Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act

Overview

Set in apartheid South Africa, where relationships across the color bar were a criminal offence, two lovers - a black man and white woman meet secretly in the library where the woman works to make love and share their hopes and fears. An observant neighbour reports them to the police who secretly photographs them from the informant's backyard and eventually break in and arrest the couple under the then inhuman and universally pilloried Immorality Act. The play is a compelling and deeply moving love story in which the physically and emotionally naked lovers expose not only their bodies but also their deepest longings for personal and emotional freedom.

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Cautions

  • Caution Intense Adult Intense Adult Themes

Details

  • Genre: Period, Docudrama/History
  • Time Period: 1980s, 1970s, 1960s
  • Cast Attributes: Multicultural Casting
  • Target Audience: Adult

Authors

Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard is an internationally acclaimed South African playwright whose best-known work deals with the political and social upheaval of the apartheid system in South Africa. He was educated at the University of Cape Town. His plays include “Master Harold”...and the Boys, ...

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