Synopsis

People are living there is a touching and passionate play by the renowned South African playwright Athol Fugard that tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary woman as she reveals the sadness and frustration of her life. Millie, the feisty and volatile landlady of an old, sleazy boarding house, is dumped by her lover on her fiftieth birthday. She is determined both to have her revenge and to celebrate, even if it kills her, as she persuades her downbeat lodgers to join her for a painteresque birthday party that none of them will ever forget.