An exciting production on this year’s
Playhouse Company New Stages roster is Touch
My Blood, a product of The Playhouse Company Actors’ Studio incubation
programme. Directed by Matjamela Motloung, this plays in The Grand Foyer from
May 16 to 20.
Based on the autobiography of the South
African author, Fred Khumalo, Touch My
Blood is a tale of a young man growing up in Hammarsdale Township, just
outside Durban. Through him, we are taken back to the vibrant 80’s – when every
young man worth his salt had the Afro, the bell-bottom trousers and platform
shoes that went alongside a time of fear and madness, and the division (both
political and radical) that shook that part of Durban.
“Touch
My Blood allows you to heal; it rewinds the tape,
allowing you to witness some of what happened in South Africa. You are not only
left with anger, but shake your head and laugh.”
Touch
My Blood features Thobani Gama as Fred with
Phumelele Majola, Okuhle Danti, Fezeka Shandu, Ayanda Nyawo and Simphiwe Dladla
as the 'Voices'.
Performances take place on May 17, 18 and
19 at 19h30 with schools performances on May 16, 17 and 18 at 10h30. Tickets R80
(public performances) and R30 (schools performances). Book through Computicket
0861 915 8000, online at www.computicket.com or call 031 369 9540 (office
hours).
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