Sorrows and Rejoicings

by Athol Fugard. A play about a white exiled poet who returns to the Karoo to die, and his relationship with the land and the three women in his life. His first play written in its entirety outside of South Africa, it shows the profound longing of a man for the land of his birth and his mother tongue. Written and first performed in May 2001 in the McCarter Theatre, Princeton USA. Directed by Athol Fugard, with John Glover, Blair Brown, Scotty Caldwell and Marcy Harriell. The New York production (at the Second Stage, January 2002) had John Glover, Marcy Harriell, Charlayne Woodard and Judith Light. First South African production at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town August 2001. Directed by Fugard and Susan Hilferty, with Marius Weyers, Denise Newman, Jennifer Steyn and Amrain Ishmael-Essop. Lighting design by Mannie Manim. It also played in London at the Tricycle (March 2002) with the South African cast, and in April-June at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles with a change in cast. First published by Theatre Communications Group, New York in 2002. Published by Witwatersrand University Press, 2002.

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