What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done when no one was watching?
In a corrugated-iron tool shed at the edge of a cemetery, a ten-year-old girl asks a gravedigger the one question she cannot answer: What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done when no one was watching? KwaZulu-Natal, September 1992. Three days before Bisho. The grinding interval between apartheid and whatever comes next. The Dead Are Patient is an intimate two-hander about the courage no one claps for. The naming of the dead. The keeping of small things. The getting up, again and again. Tense, unglamorous, and quietly devastating. The light is going amber. The ground is hard. The dead are patient.
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