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It won a Fringe First at the \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edinburgh Festival in 1990 and it was written up in the New York Times. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The narrative takes place in a hair salon in Joubert Park, Johannesburg.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The salon is on its last legs and mirrors the realities of SA at that time (1989). The salon was in what was termed a &#8220;grey area&#8221;. The Apartheid Group Areas Act was still in force in 1989, but high density areas such as Joubert Park, Hillbrow and Yeoville were grey areas, where people across the apartheid race classifications were living. This led to many landlords extorting exorbitant rents. It was also a time for an extraordinary diversity across the so-called colour bar \u2013 with South Africans living together in congested and crowded blocks of flats. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The play is a vivid archive of our apartheid past.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a heart-breaking scene which references the draconian pencil test, administered by the apartheid regime to classify people white: If their hair passed the &#8220;pencil test&#8221;, they passed as white. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rolene, the proprietor of the salon, submitted \u2013 and passed. One feels sick and saddened watching. 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