It's 1952 on an old cargo ship somewhere on the Red Sea. A young
man is beginning a "great adventure": a trip away from home, a
voyage around the world, a journey to manhood, and a writer's
odyssey. This is the setting for Athol Fugard's dramatic
examination of his life as an artist shaped both by the family that
raised him and the horrors of Apartheid in his war torn South
African homeland. Subtitled a "Memoir for the Stage, " the play is
told both from the point of view of the twenty-year-old author who
was the captain's tiger -- a glorified personal servant to the
ship's captain -- and the author as his current-day self.
This is a fascinating voyage -- a writer's pilgrimage, a whole
painful process we are privy to. We witness his coming of age
through author monologues, re-creations of onboard conversations,
letters written to his mother, imagined discourse, and dreams.
Fugard has created a personal dramatic structure moving from
present to past, from reality to reverie. One of the author's most
imaginative works, Fugard has created a world with imagery that is
visual, visceral, and poetic.
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