The appearance of a jerry-built shack on a vacant lot in a middle-class South African enclave causes ructions in Amy Jeptha’s raucously funny comedy of discomfiture. Her play belongs to a continuum of dramas that includes Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, and Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, where property – and by extension, capitalism itself – is racially charged.
Nancy Medina’s strongly-acted production – for Bristol Old Vic, where she is artistic director, the Royal Court Theatre, and Johannesburg’s Market Theatre – serves the play’s non-naturalistic structure well and papers over the moments when the characters are traduced in service to the issues.
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