Priscilla haggles a life for her family from the scraps of gang war. Sometimes there are little islands of peace, as in any good war. But war is like love: it will find a way. Amy Jephta's epic drama
tells the story of a community, a story larger than any the individual characters. Displacing one of the most famous dramas of th
e 20th century, Bertholt Brecht's
?Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
, to the Cape Flats, we find no easy answers, but a social reality dissected, to the bone.