Get all the top news & discounts for Pennsylvania & beyond. In The Syringa Tree, Elizabeth, a white South African, shares the story of her black caretaker and of generations of family straining ...

This is how it all begins: Night falls, a group of people — a family, a clan, a tribe — gathers around a campfire. The flames crackle, the wind whispers, and under the starry sky, one person begins to ...

In "The Syringa Tree," a child's-eye view of apartheid in 1963 Johannesburg, South African actress Nava Scarracino portrays some 20 different African, Afrikaaner and white English characters. While ...

"Beautifully deepened and vastly expanded in scope, this new novel is based on the epic story of Pamela Gien's phenomenally successful play, which opened Off-Broadway to unanimous critical acclaim, ...

Pamela Gien's Obie-winning journey through a child's life in South Africa during the apartheid years of the '60s is a searing indictment against a crushingly brutal society while still evoking the ...

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The Syringa Tree, Pamela Gien's autobiographical solo-actress play about a white family in South Africa and its ties to the native people in a time of apartheid, gets a May 3-22 production by Portland ...

Pamela Gien refers to Seattle as the "birthing place" of her one-actor epic "The Syringa Tree." The show premiered at ACT Theatre nearly five years ago. And now ACT is a place where Gien's robust ...

Playwright and performer Pamela Gien and director Larry Moss have created something beautiful in The Syringa Tree. I wish they'd calm down long enough to let me see it. Gien, who had never written a ...