Saturday Night at the Palace - A Play in One Act - Slabolepszy, Paul & Greig, Robert (intro)

Paperback. English. AD Donker. 1994. 79pp. In fair condition.

Shot in the stark, underpopulated style of a drama seen on public television, the South African film ''Saturday Night at the Palace'' serves as a primer for the roots of that country's racial strife. It is, however, a very obvious and oversimplified work, essentially a three-character play that sustains a one-note quality all the way through.

Shot in the stark, underpopulated style of a drama seen on public television, the South African film ''Saturday Night at the Palace'' serves as a primer for the roots of that country's racial strife. It is, however, a very obvious and oversimplified work, essentially a three-character play that sustains a one-note quality all the way through. What gives the film energy is the sheer force of the inevitable, since it's clear from the first scenes that the three principals are on a collision course. Luckily, there's also a modicum of surprise to the film's violent and appalling resolution.