The first of the Athol Fugard plays of theatre Elysium - and the first professional sound design job I really had the chance to sink my teeth into - was Playland, written and set at the end of South Africa's Apartheid era. One lesser known bit of South African history was the Border War in what's now Namibia. A common theme across Athol Fugard's plays is that the Apartheid regime wasn't necessarily a good thing if you were White, and if you were drafted for this war - considered by many to be equivalent to the Vietnam War but kept completely secret - you'd really drawn the short straw. And so, on New Year's Eve of 1989, Gideon goes to the funfair determined to have a good night and forget what he's done. He meets Martinus, who also got has blood on his hands, but he has no intention of forgetting what he's done.