Home Affairs, a play – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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THIS is how it works: Sello Ramolahloane and Lawrence Joffe in Michelle Douglass’s Home Affairs at Theatre on the Square until 11 March. Photograph by Philip Kuhn.

THE SYMBOLIC POWER of the waiting room pervades an understanding of life itself. It’s a turbulent mix of helplessness in the face of some greater force, conjoined with the complex energy of an end crookedly and precariously in sight. Just out of focus, and around the corner, as it were. It’s the end of the wait that you’re there for, but what lies there? Freedom? The Devil you don’t know? The end of everything? This is one of the central premises of Michelle Douglass’s new play, Home Affairs, on the boards at Theatre on the Square in Sandton, until March 11.

It is here where we meet two hapless but pretty ordinary guys (Sello Ramolahloane and Lawrence Joffe) in a very long queue, where the chairs are scarce, the staff minimal and surly, and the toilets filthy. It’s a Beckettian queue for…

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