This year the local UKZN Pietermaritzburg’s
Drama and Performance Studies entry for the National Arts Student Festival is One Lonely Light, a piece devised by
their students, under the direction of Sasha Roopen. It tells a mythical story
written in the stars. It will have one performance before leaving for the
festival.
The piece uses the visual techniques of
shadow movement and physical theatre to create on stage an engaging and dynamic
form of storytelling. The protagonist’s journey of self-discovery is presented
in bursts of creativity, colour and light. One
Lonely Light reflects on the wonders of light, the emptiness we feel when
it is taken away and allows the audience to contemplate the significance of
light in their own journeys.
One
Lonely Light has one performance in the Hexagon
Studio Theatre on the Pietermaritzburg UKZN campus on June 26 at 18h00. Tickets
R25 at the door.
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