Christy Gallo and Jeremy Wilkins are featured in “My Children, My Africa,” an Ensemble Theater production opening tonight. The three-person cast also includes Malachi Nimmons Jr.IF YOU GOWhat: “My Children, My Africa.”When: 7:30 p.m. today and May 6 and 13; 2 p.m. May 7 and 14; 6:30 p.m. Sunday and May 8 and 15.Where: Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga, 1918 Union Ave. (St. Andrews Center).Admission: $10 adults, $8 students.Phone: 987-5141.Website: www.ensembletheatreofchattanooga.com
If a play is set in 1980s South Africa, it must revolve around apartheid.
That’s not exactly true with “My Children, My Africa,” which opens today for a three-weekend run at Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga, said producing artistic director Garry Posey.
It opens with a debate between the sexes and later moves into a debate between races, he said. But its primary thrust is a debate between generations, he said.
The drama was written by Athol Fugard, and while it contains three specific events in the history of apartheid, according to Posey, it is a work of fiction.