LOSING a child to violence is not reserved for a certain class, race or high-risk group. It did not discriminate in smiting the parents of Amy Biehl and Brett Goldin just as harshly as it did the parents of Anene Booysen and Hector Pieterson.In South Africa, the murder of young people is often used to score cheap political points, with lip service paid to the human factor.This is where a medium such as theatre can really bore down deep and excavate the nuggets of truth buried behind the screaming headlines and hidden agendas.This subject matter was recently explored in Sindiwe Magona’s play, Mother to Mother, in which Thembi Mtshali-Jones portrayed the mother of Biehl’s murderer. Now, writer-director Lara Foot is contributing her own take on the theme.Foot is no stranger to zeroing in on a microcosm to illuminate a broader reality.She often does so with equal parts brutal sledgehammer and metaphorical allegory — such as in Tshepang and Karoo Moose, powerful indictments on the cycle ...
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