“Here South Africa’s bitter history lurks in every conversation,” notes Sarah Hemming in her Financial Times review of A Good House, a new work by the Cape Town-born playwright Amy Jephta. Sihle and Bonolo, a wealthy Black couple, have settled into a white suburban neighborhood and feel at ease. But when a shack mysteriously appears in town, its occupants unknown, neighbors ask the couple to find out who lives there. It becomes clear that the community assumes the squatters are Black and that Sihle and Bonolo will have more luck talking to them. With sharp humor, Jephta pulls us into increasingly uneasy conversations, exposing a “cat’s cradle of thorny issues” around belonging, entitlement, and race. Nancy Medina directs. —Jeanne Malle