Marvyn Harrison and Samantha Porter sit down with South African playwright and screenwriter Amy Jephta to unpack her acclaimed play \"A Good House.\" The conversation covers gentrification, class mobility, colonial language, the psychological cost of being \"the first\" in predominantly white spaces, and the tension between political blackness and coloured cultural identity in post-apartheid South Africa. Jephta discusses the personal experiences behind writing \"A Good House,\" her London run's reception versus South Africa's, comedy as a tool for dissecting race, and her two upcoming plays — one set against a Kenyan genocide backdrop, the other a Caribbean period piece about a Black slave owner.
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Guest: Amy Jephta — South African playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker. Writer of \"A Good House\" and \"Barakat.\" and Romantha Botha — Cultural Archivist and Filmaker
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