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Doting Morrie (Jack Willis, left) pours a footbath for his exhausted brother, Zach (Steven Anthony Jones), as the latter comes home from a grueling day of work in A.C.T.’s production of Athol Fugard's Blood Knot.

Tensions between brothers Zach (Steven Anthony Jones, left) and Morrie (Jack Willis) flare up over everyday household concerns; here, they debate which brand of foot salts is best.

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Morrie (Jack Willis, rear) tries to convince his brother Zach (Steven Anthony Jones) of the logic of his plan: to squirrel away their money and to buy a two-man farm.

Morrie (Jack Willis) remembers when he first returned to his brother's shack, encountering the blackness of his brother’s flesh for the first time.

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Morrie (Jack Willis, left) suggested that his brother Zach (Steven Anthony Jones, right) take a pen pal to assuage his loneliness. Now, the two receive the pen pal’s reply—and discover that she is a white woman.

Brothers Zach (Steven Anthony Jones, left) and Morrie (Jack Willis) relive their childhood through a series of games. Here, they play “To Hell and Gone,” in which they imagine a reckless car trip together.

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Having found out that their pen pal, a young, white woman with a policeman for a brother, plans to visit, Zach (Steven Anthony Jones, left) tries to convince his brother, Morrie (Jack Willis), to take their life savings from the tin and buy a suit with which to impress her.

Wearing the suit Zach purchased with all of his money and frightened out of his wits, Morrie (Jack Willis, kneeling) says a prayer for forgiveness of the sins of being born.

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Steven Anthony Jones

Jack Willis

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Charles Randolph-Wright

Tracy Chapman

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Playwright Athol Fugard

Poster for Blood Knot at A.C.T.

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Alexander V. Nichols' set for Blood Knot takes much of its inspiration from contemporary images of South African townships, as witnessed in these impressions of corrugated metal sidings.