South African Season

Jermyn Street Theatre stage this five-week season of plays by some of the best South African playwrights alongside some European and UK premieres. Featured is Reza de Wet's haunting 'Fever' which tells of an English governess working for Boer family in South Africa during the 1890s; political playwright Athol Fugard's 1964 'Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act' about illegal love under Apartheid; the European premiere of 'District 6, Our Buckingham Palace’ South African actor Basil Appollis and Sylvia Vollenhoven's look at the life of Richard Rive and his tales of Cape Town's heart; South African actor Jack Klaff's 'Under a Foreign Sky' which was inspired by a special edition of BBC's 'Question Time' following Nelson Mandela's death which makes its world premiere and 'The Man In The Green Jacket' by Eliot Moleba about what it means to be a man in working class South Africa. The plays are performed in rep, with two running most nights, and three on Sat and Thu. See the Jermyn Street Theatre website for which shows run each night.