Reach

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Reach is a play in two acts by Lara Foot Newton. It stages an encounter between a young black man and an elderly white woman in a remote, rural, unforgiving landscape. First produced by the Baxter Theatre Centre in 2007 for the Theaterformen in Hanover. Aletta Bezuidenhout as Marion Banning and Mbulelo Grootboom as Solomon Xaba.

Published in At This Stage and in Armed Response: Plays from South Africa, edited by David Peimer. London: Seagull Books, 2009.

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Performance history in South Africa

2007: Directed: Clare Stopford. Cast: Aletta Bezuidenhout (Marion Banning), Mbulelo Grootboom (Solomon Xaba)


Sources

Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)

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