Directed by Mark Graham, and starring husband-and-wife team Michael Maxwell and Dorothy Ann Gould, Hello and Goodbye is a gripping and often harrowing drama, as pertinent today as it was when Athol Fugard wrote it in 1965.

Set in the kitchen of a railway house in Port Elizabeth in 1963, the play gently explores the wounded lives of its characters.

A brother and sister who have not seen each other for years unpack boxes and suitcases in search of an elusive inheritance and in so doing unpack the memories of their empty and damaged lives.

The sister, Hester, has survived in Johannesburg through prostitution, while her brother, Johnny, has stayed at home to care for their crippled father.

Both of them have lost or sacrificed their own dreams in the time since they last saw each other, and this brief encounter is characterised by anger, hate and fear, with flashes of tenderness and emotional subtlety.

Hello and Goodbye at The Baxter Theatre

Date: 7 October – 1 November 2008
Venue: Baxter Theatre
Location: Rondebosch | Cape Town

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