The grand-scale South African production Calling Us Home – The Musical, will undertake a groundbreaking multi-country tour across the African continent, starting in Durban in July next year.
It was previously staged in 2023 in Cape Town, drawing critical and audience acclaim.

The success of the production is particularly meaningful, as it is a home-grown musical opera written and composed by Cape Town’s Alice Gillham.

It tells the story of the heart-wrenching journey of Grace, an African Princess, fleeing a devastating war in her homeland and seeks hope in a dangerous new world. She arrives penniless in the freezing, grimy docklands of an American city where she has to overcome many challenges. The universal themes is of love, loss, hope and courage.

The production will be helmed by award-winning American director Peter Flynn.

“The South African theatre community is among the most generous and welcoming with whom I’ve worked,” says Flynn. “Spending time with them while investigating this beautiful story confirmed all my first impressions.”

His New York credits include Smart Blonde starring Andréa Burns at the Westside Theatre, 1918: The Great War and The Great Gatsby at Carnegie Hall, Chess with Josh Groban and Julia Murney and Funny Girl with Whoopi Goldberg, Bebe Neuwirth and Sutton Foster. Fynn’s most recently directed The Eyes of the World with the Boston Pops, which will be televised next month.
Rehearsals for the Calling Us Home Africa Tour will begin in July at The Playhouse Theatre in Durban.

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