YOU’RE MISSING THE POINT

UKZN Pietermaritzburg student entry to the Grahamstown Arts Festival

“Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else’s life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility” – Pinter.

You’re Missing the Point is a play focusing on the life of a married couple. Exploring the breakdown in communication in relationships, it is this year's UKZN Pietermaritzburg student entry to the Grahamstown Arts Festival.

The play shows how the couple’s relationship deteriorates into absurdity and the arrival of an old, mutual friend, with whom both the husband and wife had fallen out of contact with, shakes things up a bit, as unexpected dinner guests normally do. The things left unsaid inevitably build walls between those in a relationship, between friends, couples and even countries, having far-reaching effects.

Written and directed by Chris Couperthwaite, You’re Missing the Point, uses a variety of theatre styles to fully explore the breakdown in communication in relationships. It is suitable for all ages and is showing in the Studio Theatre at the Hexagon on June 23 and 24 at 18h00. Tickets are R20 and will be available at the door. Enquiries on 033 260 5537.

You’re Missing the Point then appears at the Grahamstown Arts Festival from June 29 to July 1.