Valley Song at International City Theatre

Valley Song

International City Theatre
330 East Seaside Way Long Beach

International City Theatre presents Valley Song, the first post-apartheid play by South African master playwright Athol Fugard. In this poignant and hope-filled coming-of-age story that transcends politics, a young girl seeks the courage to embrace the future while her grandfather searches for the wisdom to let go of the past.

Thru - Sep 11, 2022

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 562-436-4610

www.InternationalCityTheatre.org

Valley Song Reviews

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LA Splash - Highly Recommended

"...VALLEY SONG is the first play Fugard wrote after apartheid ended. The play premiered in Johannesburg in 1995, with Fugard playing both the white narrator (author) and the colored farmer (Abram Jonkers aka Buk). Set in Karoo, a semi-arid region of South Africa, the play digs into the relationship between Buk and his 17-year-old granddaughter Veronica – contrasting the differences between youth and age, dreams and tradition, and just how hard it is to make changes after a lifetime of doing things just one way."

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- Elaine Mura

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...South African master playwright Athol Fugard tells a coming-of-age story as universal as it is specific to his homeland in Valley Songs, the poignant and powerful latest from Long Beach's International City Theatre."

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- Steven Stanley

Stage Raw - Highly Recommended

"...International City Theatre’s latest production of South African playwright Athol Fugard’s Valley Song is a welcomed beacon of light. First produced in 1995, Valley Song is Fugard’s first work post-apartheid. He searches for hope through the messiness and confusion of a rapidly shifting world and finds it in a younger generation ready to step into a new and unknown future."

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- Dana Martin

Theatre Notes - Highly Recommended

"...The complication comes in the form of the "White Man" (the double cast Michael A. Shepperd), who wants to buy the house and farm where Buks has lived all his life. Shepperd and Guillory give their all with tour-de-force performances."

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- Paul Myrvold

Haines His Way - Recommended

"...South African playwright Athol Fugard has written over 30 plays in his long and storied career. Most of his work dealt with the effects of Apartheid, the separation of the races as practiced in South Africa until 1994. His plays were not epics about the struggle for equality. Instead, they were intimate works about how the policy and politics affected both whites and blacks and their inter-tangled relationships in the large nation. His plays mostly consisted of small casts and he often directed and sometimes acted in them, both in South Africa and in the United States. The first play he wrote after the abolishment of Apartheid, 1995’s Valley Song, is being given a stellar revival at International City Theatre in Long Beach."

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- Rob Stevens

Glamgical - Recommended

"...Valley Song is a play that allows us to experience the textures of a society that is trying to break away from the past in hopes of building a country where justice and equality prevail despite the many challenges still pending today. Any resemblance to America? "

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Valley Song at International City Theatre

Valley Song

Valley Song Reviews

LA Splash - Highly Recommended

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

Stage Raw - Highly Recommended

Theatre Notes - Highly Recommended

Haines His Way - Recommended

Glamgical - Recommended

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