The Train Driver
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 27, 2010
Closed Nov 21, 2010
Opened Oct 27, 2010
Closed Nov 21, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Based on a true story, Athol Fugard's newest play is the culmination of a career spent mining the depths and complications of the human heart. Roelf Visagie, a train driver, searches among the amangcwaba - the unnamed ones - for the final, unmarked resting place of a young woman and child he unintentionally killed. As he wanders the graveyards of Port Elizabeth, he encounters a mysterious grave digger who guides him towards a tenuous and troubling understanding.
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The Train Driver, New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre's third Athol Fugard production in as many years, is a trenchant reminder of Fugard's capability at the height of his powers. Once again mining the social divides that continue to plague his native country of South Africa long after the cessation of Apartheid, Fugard has packed the whole horrendous history into a heated interaction between an elderly black man barely subsisting on the lowest conceivable rung of society and an unhinged, entitled white intruder.
Even before the beginning of the play -- sensitively directed by Gordon Edelstein -- we see Simon Hanabe (Anthony Chisholm) puttering about Eugene Lee's desolate, post-apocalyptic tras[...]