Hallo und Adieu/ Hello and Goodbye. Athold Fugard

Set in the kitchen of a railway house in Port Elizabeth in 1963, the play softly cauterizes 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 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 characterized by anger, hate and fear, with flashes of tenderness and emotional subtlety. The encounter all but destroys any vestiges of familial love which have survived unacknowledged in their existences.














































































































Johnnie Smith, Stefan Puppe
Hester Smith, Natasha López