Athol Fugard, a name synonymous with the struggle against apartheid, wrote his latest play (which here he directs) after reading about a mother's suicide. Holding her children, she stepped in front of a South African train. The play imagines the effect on the haunted, white driver (Sean Taylor), who vengefully hunts for the black woman's grave.
Apartheid's legacy hangs like a pall. But the evening would have been more powerful had Fugard's writing matched the cemetery setting's bleak, Beckettian mystery.