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A Human Being Died That NIght, Apartheid in South Africa, Boca Stage, Eugene de Kock, Keith Garsson, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Rita Cole, Steve Carroll, Theatre in Boca Raton
Boca Stage to present
A Human Being Died That Night
At the Willow TheatreDecember 4 – 20
“What is forgiveness… A scorching look at apartheid guilt” – The Guardian
“…quietly gripping…reveals in searing, sometimes heart-rending detail the atrocities committed by the South African police forces during the terrible years of apartheid.”
– The New York Times
For Immediate Release
Contact: Carol Kassie
carol@carolkassie.com / 561-445-9244
June 11, 2026
BOCA RATON, FL: Boca Stage will return to its roots with A Human Being Died That Night, Nicolas Wright’s searing and award-winning adaptation of Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela’s powerful account of her interviews with South Africa’s state-sanctioned mass murderer Eugene De Kock. The play will run at the Willow Theatre in Boca Raton from December 4th through December 20th, 2026.
Eugene de Kock was a paid White political assassin nick-named “Prime Evil” for his crimes against anti-apartheid activists. While he was serving his multiple life sentences at Pretoria’s C-Max prison, Black psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela went to interview him. As she attempts to unravel De Kock’s psychology, their conversations – and the play – offer a rare, penetrating look at how one of the 20th century’s bloodiest regimes came to be and the agonizing path toward healing and compassion.
A Human Being Died That Night – to be directed by Boca Stage founder Keith Garsson – will feature Carbonell and Silver Palm award-winner Rita Cole as psychologist Gobodo-Madikizela and veteran New York actor and South Florida favorite Steve Carroll as de Kock.
“This production perfectly highlights Boca Stage’s signature style of intense, dark, and highly personal stage dramas,” Garsson says. “The play becomes its own mystery in terms of unraveling how a family man could justify such errant behavior. It is enthralling to see how there are no easy answers as the play becomes a cat-and-mouse chase burrowing into the dark recesses of our minds.”
Tickets for A Human Being Died that Night will be on sale as of this summer and will be available online at https://www.myboca.us/2508/Willow-Theatre or by phone at 561-347-3948.
For more information about Boca Stage and A Human Being Died that Night, to speak with Keith Garsson, or to arrange to attend a performance please contact Carol Kassie at carol@carolkassie.com / 561-445-9244.
In the attached photos
Rita Cole
Steve Carroll
Keith Garsson
Photos courtesy of the actors
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A Human Being Died That Night
By Nicholas Wright
Based on the book by Pumla Godob-MadikizelaDirected by Keith Garsson
December 4 – 20, 2026
Tickets: $45
For tickets: https://www.myboca.us/2508/Willow-Theatre
Phone: 561-347-3948
Performance days and times:
Friday and Saturday at 7 pm
Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm
All performances will take place at
The Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park
300 S. Military Trail
Boca Raton, FL 33486
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Carol Kassie 