Syringa Tree

"... in a fine production now on stage at Beowulf Alley Theatre. ... there's absolutely nothing amateurish about her [Belnida Torrey] performance in The Syringa Tree. Indeed, she pulls off the one-woman show with aplomb, holding the stage through two full hours of text, bringing her primary character from childhood to maturity, and sometimes convincingly playing three or four different characters in a single conversation."

Apartheid tale features remarkable solo flight www.tucsoncitizen.com ®:
	"Beowulf Alley Theatre is presenting Belinda Torrey as that multifaceted narrator in a production by the Tin Shed Theater of Patagonia, directed by Robert Johnson. Her performance is a remarkable solo flight that reminds us the policy of apartheid was a political construction. "

Black, White and Gray
	KUAT-FM KUAT-FM Radio: Cue Sheet by James Reel "...a play I highly recommend."

Belinda Torrey performs all twenty-four characters in this moving play. The Syringa Tree is directed by Roger Johnson of the Tin Shed Theatre, Patagonia, with special thanks to the Patagonia Creative Arts Center. Eva Wright is the dialect coach. The Syringa Tree is a personal, deeply evocative story of an abiding love between two families, one black, one white, and the two children that are born into their shared household in early 1960s apartheid South Africa and spanning four generations to the present-day free South Africa as seen first through the eyes of a six-year-old Elizabeth Grace.

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