Summary

This multi-ethnic volume of five plays looks at the many problems facing South Africa. The stories include Anthony Akerman's Somewhere on the Border, an anti-war play dealing with the invasion of Angola; The Hungry Earth by Maishe Maponya, which dramatises black disabilities and the will to liberation; Susan Pam's Curl Up and Dye, a story about five women in a hair salon who find the divisions of apartheid stronger than their common interests; Paul Slabolepsky's Over the Hill which uses sporting metaphor to anatomize the white middle class and Just Like Home, a mediation on exile.