Mother To Mother brings together three
powerhouse women of the arts in South
Africa: writer, Sindiwe Magona; director, Janice
Honeyman; and actress, Thembi Mtshali-Jones.
The play is loosely based on the murder of young
American Fullbright scholar Amy Biehl in Cape
Town’s Gugulethu township and recounts the
events following the senseless killing.
It is staged as a fictional personal testimony from
one mother to another in which Thembi Mtshali-
Jones, as the mother of one of the four youths
accused of the murder, tries to make sense of
the events by recounting them in an imaginary
communication with Amy’s mother. It is a tour-de-
force performance delivered with dignity,
sensitivity and humour and is not to be missed.
Ms. Mtshali-Jones last appeared at the Bermuda
Festival in the highly acclaimed performance of A
Woman In Waiting.
By arrangement with Freevoice Productions |
