Combative, volatile, constantly on the verge of exploding, Dwayne and Shanell Combrink are two halves of a white South African working-class couple, living an uneasy truce as they struggle with the day-to-day trials of scraping together a living and dreaming competing dreams. But beneath Dwayne's angry, violent exterior lies the heartbreak that governs his attitude to life. Dwayne is a man in mourning. Shanell believes his current level of despair was sparked by the death of his childhood friend and recent work partner, Jonas, but the source of his mourning and anger lies much further back. When the elegant and self-contained Namhla Gumede, born on 16 June 1976, arrives on their doorstep seeking answers to questions that have remained buried for 40 years, Dwayne and Shanell finally find out the truth. What starts as a smouldering dark comedy suddenly turns into a roller-coaster ride of startling revelations, rage and recrimination ... before the storm finally breaks.

This collection of six plays by one of South Africa's leading playwrights/actors features works written between 1984 and 1993. Slabolepszy, who has won many awards in South Africa and abroad both for his plays and his performances in them, is a master of dialogue, capturing the essence of the personality and speech patterns of his protagonists in language that is often dramatic, frequently funny, sometimes tragic and always entertaining. The works included are Under the Oaks, Over the Hill, Boo to the Moon, Smallholding, Mooi Street Moves and The Return of Elvis du Pisanie. Elvis won Slabolespzy the 1992/93 IGI Life Vita Award for Play of the Year and, together with Mooi Street Moves, gained him the Vita Playwright of the Year award. This collection is introduced by Robert Greig, a well-known theatre critic, and by Bobby Heaney who has been involved in the evolution of several of Slabolepszy's plays.

This collection of six plays by one of South Africa's leading playwright/actors features works written between 1984 and 1993. Slabolepszy has won numerous awards in South Africa and abroad both for his plays and for his performances in them. He aims to capture the essence of the personality and speech patterns of his protagonists in accessible language which is often dramatic, frequently funny, sometimes tragic and always entertaining. The works included in this book are ""Under the Oaks"" (1984), ""Over the Hill"" (1985), ""Travelling Shots"" (1988), ""Smallholding"" (1989), ""The Return of Elvis Du Pisanie"" (1992) and ""Mooi Street Moves"" (1993). ""Elvis"" won Slabolepszy the 1992/93 IGI Life Vita Award for Play of the Year and, together with ""Mooi Street Moves"", gained him the Vita Playwright of the Year Award. The collection is introduced by Robert Greig, a leading South African drama critic.