Collected Plays (2009 – 2017)

Description

The five plays that make up this collection explore the truths and complexities of the transition from a closed, authoritarian society to a pluralistic, supposedly egalitarian one, but also deal with the sense of betrayal felt by so many South Africans twenty years into the democratic era.

A feature of Kolski Horwitz’s writing has been to take characters from different classes/cultures and put them in situations which combine elements of the past (apartheid) and the present (post liberation period), examining the contradictions between their personal drives and the political context and laying bare their overarching commonality as human beings with remarkably similar responses to the ironies and
paradoxes of life.