30 Years on from the TRC: A New Play Reflects on the Act of Forgiveness

09-19 April 2026

The Market Theatre in partnership with Qendra Multimedia in Kosovo presents “Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept”, a piercing and irreverent new play that explores national reconciliation and public forgiveness through South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Kosovo’s Movement for the Reconciliation of Blood Feuds.

Through archive and newly-collected testimonials, the highly visual, and often playful production reflects on the lessons that the Movement for the Reconciliation of Blood Feuds and the TRC offer Kosovars, South Africans and the world today. The production coincides with the 30th anniversary of the start of the TRC hearings, adding its voice in interrogating the commission’s unfinished business. The play questions national processes of truth-telling, forgiveness and reconciliation, and probes what liberates us in today’s post-truth age.

Buy tickets here: https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1583973783