The Hexagon Theatre
presents a 40th Anniversary Production with Mike Van Graan’s Green Man Flashing.
Trump is president
and Dlamini-Zuma may be South Africa’s first female head of state. Politics
have never been so frightfully exciting!
Mike Van Graan’s Green Man Flashing takes audiences back
over a decade into the terrain of South Africa’s political history and yet it
asks much of the same questions persistent in present day conversation.
What is the price
of democracy and freedom? Should race still matter? Why do very few recognize
rape as a question of power rather than one of desire? The playwright fails to
answer the unrelenting questions- the story of South Africa is far too complex.
And yet the narrative is a reflection of how far South Africa has come, how
greatly many have sacrificed and what is yet to be confronted if we are ever to
achieve national unity.
Moira Filmer,
Sabelo Cele, Sibusiso Nzama, Louise Buchler and Francis Menningke are a
formidable cast, gently seducing audiences into courting the complicated psyche
of transforming South Africa. Ultimately, the play beckons us to search, even
in the most impossible of times, to find traces of South Africa’s rainbow.
Green Man Flashing runs from February 13 to 16 at 19h00 at the
Hexagon Theatre on the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Pietermaritzburg campus.
Tickets R85 (R65 students & seniors) booked through email: hexagon@ukzn.ac.za
Block booking
prices are also available for schools.
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