Theater review: Blood brothers: Siblings test a tight, toxic bond in APT’s ‘Blood Knot’

Lindsay Christians, The CapTimes | June 19, 2018

Outside a shack in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the lake looks dead. It smells dead, too.

“I’m telling you that water has gone bad,” says Morris, always anxious, staring out a window. “Really rotten! And what about the factories there on the other side ... and the lavatories all around us?

“They’ve left no room for a man to breathe.”

Inside and out, the air feels toxic in Athol Fugard’s play “Blood Knot,” set just more than a decade into apartheid rule in South Africa. Hatred seems to seep, unbidden and unseen, through the walls.

There is no safe space here.

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