Governed by the discriminate structure of apartheid from 1948 to 1994, the social and political landscape of South Africa witnessed a harrowing era within history, with remnants still echoing today. Dismantled by influential revolutionary turned president Nelson Mandela, apartheid relied upon a white minority overruling the non white majority, diving a nation. Athol Fugard’s The Island, takes inspiration from Mandela’s imprisonment on Robben Island for 27 years. During his time he’d take part in a performance of Antigone that would witness a case of art mirroring reality.

Courtesy of Southwark Playhouse.