The Syringa Tree

The Syringa Tree is a deeply personal story of an abiding love between two families – one black, one white – and the two children that are born into their shared South African household in the early 1960s. Spanning four generations, the story is told first by six-year-old Elizabeth Grace as she tries with humour and sometimes palpable fear to make sense of the chaos, magic and darkness of Africa.

Audiences will marvel at the tour-de-force performance of actress Caroline Cave as she plays an entire world of characters, transforming in the blink-of-an-eye from black to white, from old to young, from Xhosa to Afrikaans to Zulu to Jewish, all the while revealing the complexities of her characters’ dreams, struggles, losses, and laughter.