Athol Fugard's latest work may be getting standing ovations in the US, but sadly it's out of date, writes Christina Scott . Sorrows and Rejoicing Athol Fugard has written an opera without music.
Characters talk to the audience much of the time, in lengthy, repetitive arias.
They very seldom talk to each other. The main character is dead and buried, which may say something significant about the liveliness of the play. Dawid Olivier is an activist writer with a drinking habit who returned from exile and writer's block to die on his family's Karoo farm. Their faces are in shadow. These are the women's remembrances and yet they don't feature in them.