A Good House: 'biting' South African satire

Amy Jephta's domestic drama 'mercilessly skewers' middle-class prejudices

Mimî M Khayisa in A Good House
Mimî M Khayisa is 'fabulously frosty' as Bonolo
(Image credit: Camilla Greenwell)

"In the wrong hands", Amy Jephta's new play could have become a "very conventional critique" of South Africa's deeply divided society, said Clive Davis in The Times. Yet this "quirky" satire "sends you home with awkward questions buzzing around in your head".

Unsurprisingly, race lies at the heart of the domestic drama, but the "mischievous" production also "homes in on subtle questions of class and money", too. The story follows Bonolo (Mimî M Khayisa) and Sihle (Sifiso Mazibuko), a Black middle-class couple who have recently moved to a "manicured suburb" in South Africa.

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Irenie Forshaw is a features writer at The Week, covering arts, culture and travel. She began her career in journalism at Leeds University, where she wrote for the student newspaper, The Gryphon, before working at The Guardian and The New Statesman Group. Irenie then became a senior writer at Elite Traveler, where she oversaw The Experts column.