research and work will be a continuation of the work Tracks created in 2017. Tracks excavates the layers of myth and memory of Alan Sandham. Alan, who grew up in pre-Apartheid Fordsburg, moved to Crosby, a suburb of predominantly White railway families, in his early twenties. A father and bricklayer at the South African Railway, Alan was a man of poise and obligation. It was only years after his passing that the Sandham family learnt about a secret he was keeping for most of his life. Tracks follows Maude Sandham, grandchild of Alan Sandham, as she pieces together her family’s complicated past. The piece is a family drama centred around the revelation of a secret kept for sixty years. Alan Sandham who passed as a white man in Apartheid South Africa, who worked for the SA Railway and Harbours, who lived life on both sides of the tracks. The implications of this discovery 20 years after his death, and the discovery and meeting of a whole new family in Bosmont: a family who knew all about the Sandham’s, whilst they knew nothing about them. Inner conflict of racial politics and identity presented through storytelling as a young South African female voice making sense of the past, the future, and the very complicated NOW. A story of secrets kept and secrets told. A story of coming together. A story of division. …show more content…
The UCT/UVA MA in dramaturgy will give me the opportunity to investigate the research, creation, and curation of these stories in theatre and investigate different proposed methods of creating these works, and to make my own significant contribution to the