Aging farm laborer Nukain has spent his life transforming the rocks at Revolver Creek into a vibrant garden of painted flowers.
Now, the final unpainted rock, as well as his young companion Bokkie, has forced Nukain to confront his legacy as a painter, a person and a black man in 1980s South Africa. When the landowner’s wife arrives with demands about the painting, the profound rifts of a country hurtling toward the end of apartheid are laid bare.
Athol Fugard, Signature’s 2012 Playwright-in-Residence and winner of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award, returns with a new play inspired by Nukain Mabusa, a farm laborer and artist who lived in South Africa. From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Mabusa painted bright geometrical patterns on the rocks near his small village of Revolver Creek, which have since been recognized as important works of “Outsider Art.”
Outsider Artists, like the self-taught Mabusa, work outside the formal boundaries of the established art world, creating works for themselves without regard to exhibition, monetary compensation, or formal training
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