Zimbabwean playwright Stanley Makuwe has written a powerful, moving and emotionally charged play about a piece of history many of us know little about.
His gripping tale, which focuses on just one night during the house arrest of Invercargill-born Sir Garfield Todd, the ousted prime minister of what was then called Rhodesia, is a story that will stay with you long after the play ends.
With the talented Cameron Rhodes playing Todd, the audience is treated to a truly nuanced and thoughtful portrayal of the man who was a liberal prime minister of the country and went on to be a vocal opponent of white minority rule in the country.
Rhodes is well matched on stage by Simbarashe Matshe who plays the young cook or houseboy employed by the Todd family. Matshe is absolutely brilliant to watch on stage and from his first dramatic entrance he captures the attention of the audience and manages to balance the humour of his characters actions and words in parts of the play without allowing his portrayal of the young Zimbabwean to ever drop to the level of caricature or mockery.