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Compulsively listenable and stylistically stunning, Black Dog Summer starts with a murder, a farmstead massacre, in the South African bush. Thirty-eight-year-old Sally is but one of the subjects. Her life brutally cut short, she narrates from her vantage point in the afterlife and wrist watches as her sister, Adele; her brother-in-law and unrequited love, Liam; her niece, Bryony; and her teenage girl, Gigi, start to seem sensible of the tragedy. A suspenseful play focusing on relationship and fidelity, sisterhood, and the fractious bond between mothers and daughters, Black Dog Summer asks: In the wake of tragedy, where will all that dark energy linger? The youngest character types, Bryony and Gigi, cousins who are actually brought collectively after Sally's murder, are required into posting a bedroom. Bryony becomes mixed up and frightened by the violent energy stirred up and awakened by the massacre while Gigi struggles to see beyond her profound grief and guilt. But they are not the sole ones aware of the lurking darkness. Nearby lives Lesedi, a hesitant witch doctor who hides her mystical reference to the useless behind the façade of the affluent Johannesburg suburb. As Gigi finally starts to emerge from her grief, the delicate healing process is derailed when she receives some shattering information and, in a mistaken work to protect her cousin, sets Bryony's life in imminent hazard. Now Sally must find a way to avoid her girl from making a mistake that could damage the lives of most who are left out. Gorgeously written, with a rate that will leave listeners breathless, Black Dog Summer introduces a brilliant new speech in fiction.
