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Hello and Goodbye

Athol Fugard's classic drama, Hello and Goodbye, starring husband and wife team Dorothy Ann Gould and Michael Maxwell, comes to the Baxter Sanlam Studio from October 7 to November 1, 43 years after it was first performed.

Directed by Mark Graham, this new production, when it premiered in Johannesburg earlier this year, was said to "have done Fugard proud".

"When asked to name my favourites among the 50 years of playwriting that lie behind me now at the age of 76, Hello and Goodbye is without fail one of the three that comes to mind," said Fugard, who has been described by Time magazine as the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world.

The powerful and gripping twohander, as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1965, brings Gould and Maxwell, both 2008 Naledi Award winners, together on stage for the first time.

Set in the kitchen of a railway house in Port Elizabeth in 1963, the play softly cauterises 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 and truths of their empty and damaged lives.

The play is classic Fugard, unashamedly South African, placed in the environment

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Pictures: Lungelo Mbulwana

It took someone the quality of writer Joan Didion to get actor Dorothy Ann Gould and director Mark Graham Wilson together for a stage production following their much-acclaimed Hello and Goodbye with her husband Michael Maxwell, a decade ago. They speak to DIANE DE BEER about The Year of Magical Thinking that opens on March 9 and runs until April 1 at The Market’s Barney Simon Theatre in Joburg:

Life changes fast.

Life changes in the instant.

You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Thus begins the American writer Joan Didion’s haunting memoir of the year following the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. The unexpected event ended a partnership of 40 years in a second, just days after their only child, Quintana, had fallen dangerously ill and slipped into a coma.

During Didion’s New York promotion of the recently published memoir, Quintana became seriously ill again. Following massive brain surgery, she died. She was 39.

Following these catastrophic events, it was the famed director David Hare who asked Didion to change her memoir into a play and six months after her second tragedy, the death of her daughter, she began working on the play. This time she was dealing with both the death of her partner and her daugh