The Island is an apartheid-era drama, inspired by a true story. Set in an unnamed prison clearly based on South Africa's notorious Robben Island, the play focuses on two cellmates who spend their days performing futile physical labor and nights rehearsing in their cell for a performance of Sophocles' Antigone, paralleling Antigone's situation and the situation of black political prisoners.
After successful runs in Cape Town in 2017 and 2018, the production will be touring to schools around Johannesburg before it will be featured at the Setkání/Encounter Festival in Czech Republic.
