Athol Fugard’s The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek Extends Off-Broadway

The world premiere of Athol Fugard’s The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek has extended again off-Broadway through June 14; the production had previously been set to shutter on June 7. The play officially opened on May 11 at the Romulas Linney Courtyard Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center.

Painted Rocks is inspired by the life of South African outsider artist Nukain Mabusa. Aging farm laborer Nukain has spent his life transforming the rocks at Revolver Creek into a vibrant garden of painted flowers. Now, the final unpainted rock, as well as his young companion Bokkie, has forced Nukain to confront his legacy as a painter, a person and a black man in 1980s South Africa. When the landowner’s wife arrives with demands about the painting, the profound rifts of a country hurtling toward the end of apartheid are laid bare.

The cast includes Leon Addison Brown, Bianca Amato, Caleb McLaughlin and Sahr Ngaujah.