My Children! My Africa! at Washington Stage Guild

The great South African playwrights meditation on education and its role in the struggle for justice, along with its sad limits in a culture of oppression and bigotry. In an Eastern Cape Karoo town in South Africa in 1984, devoted teacher Mr. M seeks to provide a future for his prize pupil Thami by forming a debate team with a bright student from the local white school, Isabel. But Mr. Ms hopes for Thami are challenged by their generational divide and the political violence brewing outside the classroom. Directed by Gerrad Alex Taylor. Starring DeJeanette Horne, Jordan Brown and Libby Barnard.