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Notes
1. The text of the play was published in conjunction with the Cape Town performance in 2012, reviewed here.
2. Page numbers refer to the published (2012) Junkets edition of Brothers in Blood, which carries an Author's Note and a Director's Introduction. The writing of the play was made possible through a writing fellowship funded by Charles Diamond, a South African businessman living in London. It was written in the course of 2006, went through a number of revisions, and was first performed at the Market Theatre on 28 May 2009.
3. In the production I saw these ‘powerful, unsettling’ (26) images were not in fact displayed. This is unfortunate, as it would have influenced the audience's reaction to the play. Was this a directorial decision?
4. Van Graan's comment on the play on his website is very much in keeping with this reading: ‘Brothers in Blood explores the religious and racial fault lines of our society, where ignorance about the other, religious arrogance and racial prejudice combine to alienate human beings from each other … even those who might have many things in common.’
5. Abrahams and Cohen are not extremists at all, in fact.