Salaam Stories

Set against the historical backdrop of the Cape slave trade and the Malay diaspora in South Africa, Ashraf Johaardien’s play, Salaam Stories featuring Ashálin Singh, has been performed in London, New York, Amsterdam and all over South Africa.

Through artful storytelling, the playwright focuses themes of identity, history and group belonging through an intimately personal lens taking audiences on a journey across the Cape Flats to Robben Island – and then to and from Bombay – back in time, to the 17th century, when the Dutch were at war with the Portuguese. Moving fluidly through multiple timeframes, a colourful community of characters is conjured to life from the recesses of memory, history and imagination.