Colours: A Monologue, and Selected Works

This collection presents finest of Rory Kilalea''s work: the plays ''Colours'' and ''The Diary of David and Ruth'', as well as three outstanding short stories. ''Colours'' is set in a Zimbabwean graveyard and is a powerful monologue by a woman of her memories, of love''s highlights and losses, of the realities of being mixed-race and of the ravages of AIDS/HIV. ''The Diary of Ruth and David'' has won a number of international awards and is a two-hander primarily set during the guerilla war that ended white rule in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. David is a sensitive and idealistic young white soldier and his girlfriend Ruth a naive and privileged white girl. Three short stories about Zimbabwe round out the collection: The ''Missing Cow'', ''Zimbabwe Boy'' and ''That''s the Way it Is''. ''That''s the Way it Is'' is a droll account of filming in Africa. ''The Missing Cow'' is a sinister tale set during the transition to black rule and ''Zimbabwe Boy'' a touching sexual tale of an older white man and young black man. See more