2025 Silver Ovation Award-winning, A Childhood in Chalk, explores the period of school boycotts in Fingo Village (in Makhanda, formerly known as Grahamstown) from 1975 to 1985. The narrative follows the experience of several 12-year-old learners from a local primary school who find themselves caught in the escalating conflict of anti-Bantu education revolts.

Their lives are forever changed by a single event that interrupts their childhood. A Childhood in Chalk delves into the themes of memory as the characters recall and piece together their childhood experience amid the invisible cost of the struggle. Ultimately, the production focuses on the untold stories of the individuals affected by this pivotal event in their community.

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