Coming Home
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 14, 2009
Closed Feb 8, 2009
Opened Jan 14, 2009
Closed Feb 8, 2009
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Athol Fugard, inarguably one of the most important living playwrights working in the English language today, is premiering his newest play Coming Home at Long Wharf Theatre.
Veronica Jonkers left her beloved grandfather's farm to pursue her dream of a singing career in Cape Town. Carrying a painful secret and a heart filled with disappointment, she returns after his death and strives to plant the seeds of a new life for her young son.
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Coming Home, now getting its world premiere at the Long Wharf Theatre, the master dramatist Athol Fugard once again favors gradual character revelation over intricacies of plot. Grippingly directed by Gordon Edelstein, the play picks up about ten years after 1995's Valley Song, which saw 17-year-old Veronica Jonkers leave her grandfather, Oupa, a hard-working tenant farmer in South Africa's arid Karoo region, for the excitement of the big city and her dreams of becoming a famous singer.
It is not difficult to surmise, however, as Veronica (a strong and grounded Roslyn Ruff) returns to the abandoned shack she once called home that the fantasy didn't pan out. In addition to ragged bedroll[...]