On Stage: Getting inside the mind of the devil

A human Being Died That Night is a powerful theatre experience about apartheid assassin Eugene "Prime Evil" de Kock, who was sentenced to 212 years in jail for his crimes.

Dramatist Nicholas Wright based the play on psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela's book of the same name.

Noma Dumezweni and British actor Matthew Marsh recreate Gobodo-Madikizela's interviews in a smoky prison cell.

The play explores not only the mind of a murderer who could be deceiving his interviewer in the hope of a presidential pardon; it also explores her own inner anger as she attempts to discover who he truly is. It is a play without easy questions, or easy answers.

• 'A Human Being Died That Night' (PG-13) is on at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg until April 6. Book at Computicket