“The Last Country” is an immersive and deeply moving Empatheatre production featuring an extraordinary powerhouse cast of some of South Africa’s top talents drawn from KwaZulu-Natal, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
The production carefully weaves together and parallels the experiences of struggle, pain, humour, hope and resilience in ways that explore the complexities, commonalities and differences of migrant women.
Sitting in a circle alongside the actors, the audience intimately listen to the stories of Ofrah from the DRC, MaThwala from Ndwedwe in KwaZulu-Natal, Aamiina from Somalia, and Aneni from Zimbabwe.
The four women’s experiences are of leaving home and arriving in Durban, where they adopt various strategies to remake a sense of belonging.
The cast includes award winning actors, Mpume Mthombeni, Faniswa Yisa, and Andile Vilakazi, with a play text drawn from the 30 oral histories of migrant women collected as part of a greater research and advocacy project.