The Train Driver and Other Plays Flashcards
apartheid
time
1948 - 1994 South Africa
have you seen us
QUOTES
“My nostalgia is for a South Africa that doesn’t exist anymore and the new one doesn’t have place for me”
‘I heard the words inside me’
‘the journey from hate to love is the shortest my heart has ever made’
‘I hated you and now I love you’
coming home
QUOTES
‘She’s dead. Dead and buried in Cape Town’ (little Veronica)
‘Those government condoms was rotten and no good.’
‘They’ve got all the wrong ideas about it’ (AIDs)
‘That’s not like you. You always wanted to sing.’
‘All he could dream about was the broken old secondhand bicycle…’.
The Train Driver
QUOTES
‘Go where? There’s nowhere to go from here.”
“…black man or shite man…the worms don’t care about that…it’s all the same to them’’
“This place is a bloody disgrace to humanity”
‘You people’
“Why did she have to drag someone else - ME! - into her shit.”
“Most of us white people got no idea about what it’s like. Because our world is so different! We always think we know…but the truth is we don’t”
“My name is Simon Hanabe, I am the one who puts the nameless ones in the grave.”
“There is no flowers in Shukuma.”
have you seen us
themes
prejudice and healing
exile and displacement
nostalgia and belonginess
The Train Driver
themes
suffering
bonds between stangers
guilt
coming home
themes and symbols
confronting the past
dreams and aspiration
bicycle, plastic theatre, pepsi bottle, tin of words, oupa’s trees
