Producing Artistic Director Deborah Lawlor Co-Artistic Director Producing Director Simon Levy

presents the West Coast Premiere of

by

starring Gilbert Glenn Brown Thomas Silcott Philip Solomon Suanne Spoke

set design Jeffrey McLaughlin lighting design Jennifer Edwards costume design Naila Aladdin-Sanders composer/sound design Peter Bayne prop/set dressing design Dillon Nelson production stage manager Rita Cofield technical director Scott Tuomey publicist Lucy Pollak

produced by Stephen Sachs and Deborah Lawlor

directed by Simon Levy

World Premiere produced by Signature Theatre, John Houghton, Founding Artistic Director Erika Mallin, Executive Director, on May 11, 2015 "Broadway Caliber! One of LA’s most indispensable venues’’ Times

The Fountain Theatre is a non-profit producing organization established in 1990 by co-Artistic Directors Deborah Lawlor and Stephen Sachs dedicated to providing a nurturing, creative home for multi-ethnic theatre and dance artists. The Fountain offers a safe, supportive haven for artists of varied backgrounds to gather, interact and inspire each other toward the creation of work that will ignite and illuminate the community from which it’s drawn and give creative voice to those who may not otherwise be heard.

Now in its 25th year, The Fountain has grown into one of the most highly regarded theatres in Los Angeles. 's activities include a year-round season of fully produced new and established plays (34 world premieres and 44 U.S./West Coast/Southern California/Los Angeles premieres), a full season of Flamenco and multi-ethnic dance, a New Plays developmental series, and educational outreach programs.

To date, Fountain Theatre productions have won more than 225 awards for all areas of production, performance, and design. The Fountain has the distinction of being honored with more nominations and winning more Ovation awards than any other intimate theatre in Los Angeles, winning the preeminent Best Season Award twice in six years. The Fountain was honored with the 2014 BEST Award from the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, and has been presented with seven Awards of Excellence from the Los Angeles City Council for enhancing the cultural life of the city. The Hollywood Arts Council presented the Fountain with its Charlie Award for overall achievement of excellence in Theatre. The Fountain was instrumental in launching, hosting and guiding the Deaf West Theatre Company at the Fountain in 1991.

Fountain projects have been seen in major theaters around the country, internationally and around the world and have been made into a CBS Movie-for-Television and a BBC Radio Drama. New plays developed at the Fountain Theatre have won the PEN USA Literary Award for Drama, been named PEN Award Finalists 3 times, the Elliot Norton Award for Best New Play, LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, the Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the California Governor’s Media Access Award, and many other honors.

Recent Fountain highlights include being honored with the 2014 Ovation Award for Best Season and the 2014 BEST Award for overall excellence from the Biller Foundation; the Fountain play Bakersfield Mist in London’s West End starring Kathleen Turner and Ian McDiarmid; the two-month sold-out run of Citizen: An American Lyric; the 25th Anniversary Gala at the Redbury Hotel; and the last six Fountain productions consecutively highlighted as Critic's Choice in the Los Angeles Times.

Under the guidance of Producing Artistic Director Deborah Lawlor, the Fountain is also the premier venue for Flamenco music and dance in Los Angeles. Since 1990 it has produced over 600 world-class Flamenco concerts on its intimate stage and nine seasons at the 1200-seat Ford Amphitheater. The Fountain has also toured Flamenco projects throughout the Western United States. The Fountain's Forever Flamenco is in its 14th year. CAST

Bokkie Philip Solomon Nukain Mabuza Thomas Silcott* Elmarie Kleynhans Suanne Spoke* Jonathan Sejake Gilbert Glenn Brown*

*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Setting: A hillside in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa, 1981 and 2003.

There will be one intermission

Who’s Who

GILBERT GLENN BROWN (Jonathan Sejake) BFA, Tisch School of the Arts. Theater credits include Gospel at Colonus (Ebony Repertory Theatre Company), The Brother Size, In the Red & Brown Water and Live From Death Row… The Scottsboro Boys (Fountain Theatre), Spunk, (True Colors Theatre Company), Rio, The Musical (2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival), Martin: Before the Dream (NEC), A Time to Love, Charleston Olio, Harriet Jacobs (Kansas City Rep), Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theater), Forgive Me (NY International Fringe Festival), TopDog/UnderDog, ( Rep/Circle Theatre Group), Miss Evers Boys (The Complex), DWB in Beverly Hills (Matrix Theatre). Some of his & TV credits include Dreamgirls, Rain, Children of the Struggle, recurring this Fall on The Inspectors, recurring on Mercy, ER, The O.C., Cold Case, Shark, CSI: Miami, The Shield. gilbertglennbrown.com

THOMAS SILCOTT (Nukain Mabuza) is happy to be performing his second production at The Fountain Theatre and his second premiere of an Athol Fugard play with them. Happy 25th Anniversary! Past projects include Bring In Da Noise/ Bring In Da Funk (Broadway Tour), To Kill A Mockingbird (Alliance Theatre), As You Like It (Colorado Shakespeare Festival), Our Town (Gloucester Stage Company), Othello (Kingsmen Shakespeare Company), Master Harold and The Boys (The Colony Theatre), Coming Home (The Fountain Theatre & Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Paint Your Wagon (Geffen Playhouse). T.V. and Film credits include Gods and Generals, Girlfriends, Desperate Housewives, The Others, Entourage, Raising The Bar, : Beyond Boarders, Rosewood. Tom is a recipient of an Ovation and an L.A. Weekly award and a nominee for two N.A.A.C.P. awards.

PHILIP SOLOMON (Bokkie) lives in Santa Ana, California and is a seventh grader at Santiago Charter Middle School in Orange, CA. His credits include Sacrificing Simone by Aretha Thomas (Porticos Art Space in Pasadena), Sleeping Beauty and Her Winter Knight (Lithgow Family Productions at the Pasadena Playhouse), back-up dancer to Hannah Kirby on season 8 of NBC’s The Voice, a co- starring role on the “Fresno Girl” episode of Nickelodeon’s Sam and Cat and a national commercial for Hilton Homewood Suites. He is a member of St Mary's Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Culver City.

SUANNE SPOKE (Elmarie Kleynhans) is a multi-award winning actor who can currently be seen recurring on Switched at Birth and in the Academy Award winning film, Whiplash. TV credits include Criminal Minds, Happy Endings, Private Practice, and she appears in a very funny special feature on the DVD of Once Upon A Time. She will be seen in Christopher Guest’s new film Mascots and the upcoming indie feature Wild Prairie Rose. Having appeared on many local stages including Company of Angels, the Road, Deaf West, Inside the Ford with the wonderful Fountain Theatre, Suanne has won the Ovation Award for Best Actress in both David’s Mother and Napoli Milionaria and was also nominated for Streetcar Named Desire at Deaf West Theatre. She currently is on the faculty of California Institute of the Arts teaching acting in the Graduate Film Directing Program and is producing, along with her husband, K.C. Marsh, the documentary Warne Marsh: An Improvised Life. Thank you all here at the Fountain Theatre for this fantastic opportunity.

ATHOL FUGARD (Playwright) is South Africa’s most significant and internationally acclaimed playwright. For over fifty years he has written soul-searing plays which have moved audiences around the world. He has been working in the theatre as a playwright, director and actor in South Africa, England and the United States for over fifty years. In 2014, he was the first African recipient of a Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award, Japan’s highest honor in the arts. In June 2011, he received a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. In November 2011 he was the inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor of Drama at Oxford University. As an actor, he has been seen on stage in South Africa, London, Broadway, Off-Broadway and in regional theatres across the United States. His film credits as an actor include The Road to Mecca, Gandhi, and The Killing Fields. As an author, his plays include: No-Good Friday, Nongogo, , , People are Living, There, , Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, Dimetos, , , ‘Master Harold’ …and the Boys, The Road to Mecca, A Place With the Pigs, My Children! My Africa!, Playland, Valley Song, The Captain’s Tiger, Sorrows and Rejoicings, Exits and Entrances, Victory, Coming Home, The Train Driver, The Bird Watchers, The Blue Iris, The Shadow of the Hummingbird and The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek. His novel Tsotsi was adapted into a film which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film (2006). He has published his autobiographical memoir Cousins. In 2010, a new theatre in Cape Town was named The Fugard Theatre and in 2012, the Signature Theatre in New York City dedicated its season to Fugard. The Fountain Theatre enjoys a fifteen year artistic association with Fugard, producing seven premieres of his new plays since 2000. The Fountain Theatre is Fugard’s artistic home in the western United States.

SIMON LEVY (Director) has been the Producing Director of the Fountain Theatre since 1993. The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle honored him with the Milton Katselas Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing; and he was nominated for the 2015 Zelda Fichandler Award in Directing. In 2015 he directed the critically acclaimed production of Reborning by Zayd Dohrn. This follows other critical successes for the Fountain Theatre, including The Normal Heart in 2013/2014; the world premiere deaf/hearing production of Cyrano in 2012; ’ rarely-produced A House Not Meant to Stand in 2011; the L.A. premiere of Opus by Michael Hollinger in 2010; and the West Coast premiere of Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51 in 2009 - all of which received numerous awards and nominations and Critic’s Choices. He has directed over 80 productions that have won hundreds of awards. His stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (Finalist for the PEN Literary Award in Drama) inaugurated the new Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, was subsequently produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre, and is being produced widely across North America and internationally. It is the only stage adaptation authorized by the Fitzgerald Estate, and is published by Dramatists Play Service, along with his adaptations of Tender is the Night (winner of the PEN Literary Award in Drama) and The Last Tycoon. He has been the producer of many productions at the Fountain, including the world premiere of Citizen: An American Lyric, Bakersfield Mist, and all the Athol Fugard premieres. What I Heard About Iraq, which he wrote and directed, was produced worldwide: including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it won the Fringe First Award; the Adelaide Fringe Festival where it won the Fringe Award; for radio by the BBC; and received a 30-city UK tour culminating in London. His other directing credits at the Fountain include: The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore; The Gimmick with Dael Orlandersmith (winner Ovation Award Solo Performance); Master Class (winner Ovation Award for Best Production); Daisy in the Dreamtime; Going to St. Ives, which went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; The Night of the Iguana; Summer & Smoke (winner of the Ovation Award for Best Production); The Last Tycoon, which he wrote and directed, (5 Back Stage West awards, including Best Adaptation and Direction); and Orpheus Descending, (6 Drama-Logue awards, including Best Production and Direction), among many others. He’s currently writing two new plays, including a contemporary translation/adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People: A New Version for the 21st Century. Prior to coming to Los Angeles he lived in where he was the General Manager of Beach Blanket Babylon, Artistic Director of The One Act Theatre Company, and Executive Director of Theatre Bay Area. He belongs to numerous organizations, including the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the Dramatists Guild, the 99-Seat Review Committee, the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and many theatre, human rights, and political advocacy groups. www.simonlevy.com

JEFFREY MCLAUGHLIN (Set Design) is very happy to be back at The Fountain. Commercial clients include Kellogg’s, Tropicana and Huawei. Television credits include Octane Academy and Interior Motives. Recent notable works include Pray To Ball (Ovation winner) at the Skylight Theatre; Reborning, The Normal Heart, My Name is Asher Lev, The Blue Iris (NAACP nominee),Bakersfield Mist (Ovation nominee), A House Not Meant to Stand (Ovation and LA Weekly Award nominee) and The Train Driver (Ovation and LA Weekly Award nominee) all at The Fountain Theatre; Grace and Glorie (Ovation winner) at The Colony; Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rein-Doors at The Falcon; Years to the Day at Beverly Hills Playhouse; Recent Tragic Events (LADCC Award nominee), The Long Christmas Ride Home (Ovation nominee), and A Skull in Connemara (Ovation and LADCC winner) at Theatre Tribe. JeffMcLaughlinDesign.com

JENNIFER EDWARDS (Lighting Design) Jennifer is so pleased to be back with the phenomenal Fountain Theatre family and this production of Painted Rocks. Recent lighting designs include Broomstick and Reborning (Fountain Theatre), Cabaret (Welk Theatre), Tarzan The Musical (Moonlight Amphitheater), Just Judy (Jackson Hole PAC), El Grande Circus de Coca Cola (Skylight Theatre), Broadway and Beyond (Alex Theatre), Step Up (Pasadena Playhouse), Into the Woods (S.D. Starlight Bowl) The Full Monty (Birch North Park Theatre), Dreamgirls (S.D. Lyceum) and many others. Jennifer is also a proud AEA Stage Manager since 1994. Thank you Simon, Stephen, Scott and James for all you do. Gram and Dan this light is yours, Still Shining!

PETER BAYNE (Composer/Sound Design) Selected LA Credits include, The Fountain Theatre: Citizen, Reborning, The Brothers Size, Broomstick, In the Red and Brown Water, A Normal Heart, The Blue Iris, Cyrano, On the Spectrum, Bakersfield Mist, Opus, Coming Home, El Nogalar, Shining City A Noise Within: The Tempest, South Coast Repertory: James and the Giant Peach, Rubicon Theatre Company: Other Desert Cities, Antaeus Company: Henry IV Part 1, The Liar and The Malcontent The Colony Theatre: Year Zero, The Actor’s Gang: Break The Whip, Katie the Kurst, The Rogue Machine: Lost Girls, Skylight Theatre Company: Disconnection, Theatre of Note: Copy, The Elephant Theatre Company: Unorganized Crime, Twilight of Schlomo, Parasite Drag, 100 Saints You Should Know, Revelation. Other selected regional credits with the American Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare and Company, Actor's Shakespeare Project, Lyric Stage Company, Company One, Portland Playhouse, Provincetown Playhouse, and Orfeo Group. Peter is active as a composer in film and TV, and produces and performs dance music and indie rock. He has a BA in music from Vassar and an MFA in Composition and Theory from Brandeis.

NAILA ALADDIN-SANDERS (Costume Design) Naila’s Fountain Theatre productions are Citizen: An American Lyric, Reborning, The Brothers Size, The Normal Heart, In the Red and Brown Water, The Blue Iris, A House Not Meant to Stand, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Daisy in the Dreamtime, and Master Class. She recently designed the road weeps, the river runs for Latino Theatre Company. For Celebration Theatre she designed The Color Purple, The Women of Brewster Place and won a Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Neighbors at the Matrix Theatre. For the Robey Theatre Company she designed Knock Me a Kiss, Ana Lucasta, Bronzeville, The River Niger, A House With No Walls, and The Haitian Trilogy.

DILLON NELSON (Props/Set Dressing Design) holds a BA in Theatre from Piedmont College. Dillon is a theatrical jack-of-all- trades who has been working professionally since 2007 in a variety of positions across Georgia, North Carolina, Maine, and now California. Since moving last year, Dillon has been able to dive head first into the vibrant and creative Los Angeles theatre scene working with such companies as A Noise Within, the Rogue Artist Ensemble, Covina Center for Performing Arts, Boston Court, and Watts Village Theater. Dillon is happy to join the Fountain again for their production of Painted Rocks. You may remember his work from their last 2 productions, I And You and Citizen. He hopes you enjoy the performance and would like to thank you for supporting the arts in Los Angeles. Find out more about Dillon at www.dillonmace.weebly.com

NIKE DOUKAS (Dialect Coach) Many seasons at A Noise Within, The Pasadena Playhouse, The Theatre at Boston Court, South Coast Repertory Theatre, The Colony Theatre, Rogue Machine, LA Theatreworks, The Antaeus Company, and Sacred Fools. As an actress: South Coast Repertory, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, The Old Globe, A Contemporary Theatre (Seattle), Shakespeare Festival LA, The Pasadena Playhouse, The Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, The Berkeley Shakespeare Festival and The American Conservatory Theatre. MFA, American Conservatory Theatre, 2012 recipient of the Lunt Fontanne Fellowship and a member of the Antaeus Company.

ANGELIQUE PRETORIUS (Afrikaans consultant) was born in London and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. She earned an honors degree in Theatre Performance and English Literature at the University of Cape Town, where she trained in both contemporary and classical theatre genres. After graduation, she worked on of hit South African TV series, such as Hartland, Kruispad, Binneland, Snitch, 7de Laan and High Rollers. She also shot several feature , including the demanding lead role in Oscar-nominated director Darrell Roodt's Stilte. She acted opposite Jennifer Hudson in the biopic Winnie Mandela and had recurring roles in HBO series Strike Back, Starz series Black Sails and Canadian mini-series Diamonds.

RITA COFIELD (Production Stage Manager) is a native of Los Angeles. She graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture but gave the drafting table a rest over 15 years ago to pursue more hands- on experiences, beginning with volunteering to help paint theatrical sets. She went on to assistant stage managing, then to stage managing. She has stage managed with Actor's Co-op, the Inkwell Theater Company, A Noise Within, Theatre 40, Academy of New Musical Theater –her favorite genre, and frequently collaborates with Theatre Planners. She directed her first play, the world premiere of Madame President over at the historic El Portal. She frequently gives her time and energy to helping out with the Watts Village Theater Company in the roles of stage manager, artistic curator, and production and special projects manager for a beautification project at the Mafundi Institute located in Watts. She gained a passion for maintaining the integrity of historic structures from her time maintaining the integrity of theatrical productions which led to her getting a Master of Heritage Conservation from USC. She splits her time between theatre and building conservation. Lastly, she thanks the Fountain Theatre for welcoming her skills and talents on this very special production. TERRI ROBERTS (Assistant Stage Manager) Painted Rocks marks Terri’s 20th show as a stage manager at the fabulous Fountain Theatre, and her third Fugard piece (including The Blue Iris and The Train Driver.) Also at the Fountain: Citizen, Reborning, Broomstick, The Brothers Size, My Name is Asher Lev, The Normal Heart, Heart Song, On the Spectrum, In the Red and Brown Water, Cyrano, El Nogalar, When They Go and You Do Not, Bakersfield Mist, A House Not Meant to Stand, Opus, The Ballad of Emmett Till and Miss Julie: Freedom Summer. Stage management credits elsewhere include Tom and Barry: Two Nights Only, InkFest 2015, A Weekend with Pablo Picasso, Death and Giggles; Soul Mate, Falling Upward, Good Bobby, Is He Dead?, Sleeping Beauty, Respect: The Girl- Empowered Musical, Someday, Prove It On Me, Glengarry Glen Ross, Twentieth Century, Rockers, Christmas O’Carol, A Night in November, If Only, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, and the 13TH and 14TH Annual Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festivals. She is also a theatre/entertainment writer whose works have appeared in Variety, Performances, Back Stage West, Ross Reports, LA Weekly, LA Parent, The Sondheim Review, Salon City, and online at ShowMag.com, TheaterMania.com and Examiner.com. Special thanks and deepest gratitude, as always, to Stephen. Proudly both Pro 99 and a member of Actors’ Equity.

STEPHEN SACHS (Co-Artistic Director) is an award-winning director and playwright and the co-Artistic Director of the Fountain Theatre, which he co-founded with Deborah Lawlor in 1990. Recent directing credits include the West Coast Premiere of Broomstick, the Los Angeles Premiere of My Name is Asher Lev, the US Premiere of Athol Fugard's The Blue Iris, Bakersfield Mist (World Premiere), Completeness by Itamar Moses starring Jason Ritter; Warren Leight's Side Man starring and Frank Wood; a 3-city China tour of Top Secret (LA Theatre Works), the US Premiere of The Train Driver by Athol Fugard, Conor McPherson's Shining City (LA Premiere), the West Coast Premiere of Athol Fugard's Coming Home (Best Director, LA Weekly Award), the U.S. Premiere of Athol Fugard's Victory (NAACP Award for Best Director); the world premiere of Miss Julie: Freedom Summer at the Fountain and Canadian Stage Company in Toronto and the Vancouver Playhouse; the world premiere of Fugard’s Exits and Entrances at the Fountain (Ovation Award and LA Drama Critics Circle Award, Best Director) and Off-Broadway at Primary Stages in New York, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, the LA premiere of Fugard’s The Road to Mecca, 's After the Fall (Ovation Award, Best Director), (Fountain Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre in , Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis), Hippolytos inaugurating the Outdoor Classical Theater at the Getty Villa in Malibu, and many others. Sachs has twice been nominated for the SDC Zelda Fichandler Award, recognizing an outstanding director who is making a unique and exceptional contribution to theatre in their region. He is also the author of twelve produced plays, including the recent hits Citizen: An American Lyric, Heart Song (Fountain and Florida Rep), Cyrano (LA Drama Critics Circle Award, Best New Play) and Bakersfield Mist (2012 Elliot Norton Award, Best New Play) which enjoyed a 3- month run on London’s West End starring Kathleen Turner and Ian McDiarmid and is now being translated into other languages and being performed worldwide. His other plays are Miss Julie: Freedom Summer (Fountain, Vancouver Playhouse), Gilgamesh (Theatre@Boston Court), Open Window (Pasadena Playhouse, Media Access Award), Central Avenue (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist), Sweet Nothing in my Ear (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist, Media Access Award), Mother's Day, The Golden Gate (Best Play Award, Dramalogue), and The Baron in the Trees. He wrote the teleplay for Sweet Nothing in my Ear for Hallmark Hall of Fame which aired on CBS starring Marlee Matlin and . Sachs was recently honored with a Certificate of Commendation from the Los Angeles City Council for “his visionary contributions to the cultural life of Los Angeles.”

DEBORAH LAWLOR (Producing Artistic Director) began as a dancer, choreographer and actor in New York's "Downtown" scene. After passing five years in South India where she was involved in the initial development of the international township of Auroville, she created two full-length outdoor dance/theatre pieces celebrating the community. She spent the next 10 years in Australia and France studying ancient cultures of India and Egypt and translating several books in these fields from French into English. Returning to the US in 1986, she became deeply involved in the intimate theatre scene and, in 1990, she and Stephen Sachs co-founded the Fountain Theatre, which is now in its 25th year of theatrical and dance events. Deborah is responsible for the Fountain's extensive dance involvement. The 1995 season included, The Women of Guernica, Deborah’s flamenco-based adaptation of Euripides' The Trojan Women, which she also directed. She directed two one-act plays by Tennessee Williams and created and directed three full-evening Dance-Theatre pieces for the Fountain, Declarations: Love Letters of the Great Romantics, The Path of Love, and directed the “dance opera,” The Song of Songs, with music by Al Carmines. She directed a production of The Path of Love in South India, as well as The Great Secret by Mira Alfasa. She next directed Yussef El Guindi's Acts of Desire at the Fountain to considerable acclaim. In 2006 she directed the delightful Taxi to Jannah by Mark Sickman. And, as a producer of Flamenco, her Forever Flamenco series, now in its 14th year, continues to play to enthusiastic crowds. Actor’s Equity Association honored Ms. Lawlor with its Diversity Award, for her dedication to presenting work at the Fountain that is culturally diverse. In 2013, at Forever Flamenco at the Ford, she received special commendations from the City of Los Angeles and the Spanish Consulate for her contributions to the art of Flamenco. She’s writing a new play, Freddie, which is being developed at the Fountain and will be performed this winter.

JAMES BENNETT (Associate Producer) joined the Fountain team in 2009 and has smiled and whistled, much to the irritation of everyone else, every day ever since. Between making friends with our members and patrons in the box office, schmoozing with Flamenco fans in the cafe, and working to develop new plays, he's having a blast. He's compelled to the theatre by its immediacy, its intimacy – the visceral impact of being so close to real humans with real sweat and real spit. In a world that's increasingly disjointed, behind glass, and far away – theatre becomes more powerful than ever.

BARBARA GOODHILL (Director of Development) is a seasoned marketing and development professional. Before joining The Fountain Theatre’s staff, Barbara served as Director of Advancement at Inside Out Community Arts, a nationally honored nonprofit that empowers under-served youth through theater-arts based programs. Prior senior staff positions include Sinai Akiba Academy and PS#1 Elementary School. Barbara brings a wealth of experience, sincere dedication and innovative thinking to every project. Also active as a volunteer on Boards of Directors, Barbara has a keen understanding of the non-profit sector. Barbara received her B.A. from UC Berkeley in English and History and attended UCLA’s Masters program in Theatre Arts.

SCOTT TUOMEY (Technical Director) has been Technical Director at the Fountain since its inaugural production of Winter Crane in 1990. He has overseen virtually every Fountain production, on and off site, including their numerous flamenco shows, and has appeared here on our stage in Declarations: Love Letters of the Great Romantics, and the Fountain’s hit productions of Master Class and Joe Turners’ Come and Gone. Scott's talents as actor- singer-guitarist were also seen in the Shakespeare Festival L.A. productions of As You Like It and Twelfth Night at the Globe Theatre in West Hollywood and in the film A Day in the Life of Sunny Paradise.

LUCY POLLAK (Publicist) has been providing publicity services to the Los Angeles arts community for the past 22 years, for theater, dance and music productions as well as for large events and festivals such as the annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the NoHo Scene. From 1981 to 1990, she was production manager/staff producer at the Odyssey Theatre, where she co-produced over 100 productions with artistic director Ron Sossi. For the 1993 Los Angeles Festival, she line produced Reza Abdoh’s controversial Quotations From A Ruined City. She is the recipient of a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (Master Class), an LA Weekly Award (Mary Barnes), four Drama-Logue Awards (Mary Barnes, Idioglossia, Accidental Death of An Anarchist, It’s A Girl!), and a Women in Theatre Recognition Award. She has served on the boards of directors of the Los Angeles Theatre Alliance (now L.A. Stage Alliance), Women in Theatre and P.A.T.H. (Performing Arts Theatre for the Handicapped).

SUBSCRIBER SPOTLIGHT Ann Ryerson Hall

I've been a subscriber for 23 years. The first time I came to the Fountain was to see my former acting teacher, Salome Jens, in The Seagull. It knocked us out so much that both my friend I decided, right then and there, that we've both got to become subscribers.

As an actress, I very much appreciate the acting. I'm also a member of a play reading group and read new plays every week – so I'm very much appreciative of the structure. The set designs at the Fountain are absolutely magnificent. I cannot say enough about it. How they transform that small space into so much.

I considered After the Fall with Morlan Higgins and to be a transcendent theatrical experience. I went to it with my friends Shannon and Eric and said “Oh my God!” We were so flipped out by it that I said to my husband “you have got to see this” so he came and saw it and said “if I never see anything more, I've seen the best.” He was knocked out. When Tracy Middendorf came on stage for the first time, I felt a rush of spring air sweep across me. I wondered if the theatre actually shot air into the house. It was really quite beautiful, and in the end we were sobbing in our seats.

There are so many standout plays. I think Simon, Stephen and Deborah choose very interesting subjects for their plays. They know what they like, and they're always thought provoking and culturally interesting.

I love being transported to South Africa with Athol Fugard. There's a certain dreamlike quality to his plays that I really like. I'm thrilled to see The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek.

- Ann Ryerson Hall

“The Most Beautiful Garden in the Universe”

Nukain Mabuza was born in Mozambique. His mother was descended from a long line of Tsonga healers and diviners, a walker between worlds. While pregnant with Nukain she was instructed in a dream to take special care of her unborn son because great things were expected of him.

When Nukain was seventeen, his mother was killed at the riverside by a crocodile. Mabuza left his village, walked a long journey, met spiritual guides and had otherworldly visions. He was shown the whole universe, all life and the afterlife filled with birdsong.

He moved to Soweto and found work in a factory. But his religious dreams and spiritual visions continued and he wandered the land. One night, Mabuza fell into a deep sleep. A surge of power coursed through him. When he woke, he was filled with a spirit to fulfill his mission: to go home and prepare the Garden of Eden.

Mabuza began creating his visionary garden near Revolver Creek in Kaapmuiden, Mpumalanga, in the late 1960s. He described how, looking downward from the top, the painted rocks appear to be flowers tumbling from heaven. Gazing up at his colorful hillside, he said, ‘I have the most beautiful garden in the universe.’

Mabuza passed away in October 1981. Legend surrounds even his death. Some say Mabuza dug his own grave at the top of his painted mountain before burying himself under a pile of rocks and taking his own life. He was later buried in a pauper’s grave in Emjindini Cemetery in Barberton.

Although Nukain Mabuza died in relative obscurity, he left behind important works of art that today attract visitors from around the world. He has received posthumous recognition as an important South African “Outsider” artist. His “Garden of Flowers” continues to inspire other creative minds, including triggering the imagination of playwright Athol Fugard.

The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek Glossary of African terms used in the play

Koppie (Afrikaans) A small hill. Voetsek (Afrikaans) Get Lost, Go Away Bokkie (Afrikaans) A term of endearment, “small buck”. Suka Wena (Zulu) Vulgar, Go away. Fuck Off. Hamba Offensive, Go Away, Be off Tata (Xhosa) A respectful means of addressing an older man; “father”. Dominee (Afrikaans) Reverend Aikona (Afrikaans) No way, absolutely not Dassies (Afrikaans) African rodents found in semi-desert regions. Bakkie (Afrikaans) pick-up truck Kwas (Afrikaans) Paintbrush Klippie (Afrikaans) A small pebble Yo (Afrikaans) An exclamation expressing any of a variety of emotions, esp. surprise, wonder, contempt, dismay, and disbelief Haai (Afrikaans) Wow, gosh Ewe (Afrikaans) Yes Polisie (Afrikaans) Police Mealies (Afrikaans) Corn Wena (Nguni) You Vuka (Zulu, Xhosa) Wake up Dompas (Afrikaans) Passbook; an apartheid-era identity document Kaffer (from Arabic) Pejoratve term for black South Africans Skelm (Afrikaans) Crook Groente (Afrikaans) Greens Baas (Afrikaans) Boss; apartheid-era word with negative connotations today Pondok (Afrikaans) Shack Moeg (Afrikaans) tired Klonkie (Afrikaans) A patronizing apartheid-era term for a black child Passop (Afrikaans) Beware, look out Skollies (Afrikaans) Hooligans, thugs Kraal (Afrikaans) A corral; cattle enclosure Mos (Afrikaans) an interjection used for emphasis; “after all”. Outa (Zulu, Xhosa) A paternalistic means of addressing an elderly black man, “old father”. Zols (Afrikaans) A hand-rolled cigarette

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presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. The Fountain Theatre is a member of The Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American Theatre. The Fountain Theatre is a member of the National New Play Network, the L.A. Stage Alliance, and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. This performance is made possible in part through the sponsorship of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept. The Fountain Theatre is a 501(c) (3), non-profit corporation, chartered in the State of California, and receives funding from numerous donors, as well as our many generous Friends and Associates, all of whom we graciously thank. The Fountain Theatre especially thanks the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, The Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts, and The Fullen-Smith Foundation for their support. Board of Directors Barbara Goodhill · Karen Kondazian · Deborah Lawlor · Brenda Marsh · Pat Oliansky · Stephen Sachs · Dorothy Wolpert · Don Zachary Artistic Associates and Advisors Jane Anderson · Lee Blessing · Tim Cummings · Shirley Jo Finney · Athol Fugard Israel Horovitz · Ed Harris · Karen Kondazian Tarell Alvin McCraney · Tracy Middendorf · Jenny O’Hara · Dael Orlandersmith Lisa Pelikan · Priscilla Pointer · Jacqueline Schultz · Adolphus Ward Flamenco Advisors Roberto Amaral · Maria Bermudez · Bruce Bisenz · Antonio Triana