When a shack suddenly appears inside an affluent suburban neighbourhood, panic spreads among residents. This is the premise of A Good House, playwright Amy Jephta’s latest work, which opened at Johannesburg’s Market Theatre on Thursday. Set in the fictional gated community of Stillwater, the play follows Sihle and Bonolo, a black middle-class couple who find themselves recruited by their white neighbours to oppose the mysterious structure. “The shack symbolises our fraught relationship with land, informal settlements and with who gets to be on land,” Jephta said. The play asks how residents react when the shack appears inside their community.