The Playhouse Company’s annual New Stages
Festival traditionally affords theatre goers in Durban and surrounds the prime
opportunity of seeing a fresh crop of cutting edge stage-works that are making
waves on the national performing arts circuit.
One of the remarkable
productions to be seen on this year’s New Stages roster in May is the multiple
award-winning one-hander, Tswalo.
The product of hot-property creative team
Billy Langa (writer, performer), Mahlatsi Mokgonyana (director, lighting
designer) and John Withers (composer, sound designer), Tswalo is described by its creators as “a body of poems constructed
to fragment a narrative that is carried in both physicality and voice. It is
placed in a timeless space of existence, which explores the primary themes of
being, chaos and beauty, blood and birth, love and war in the same frame.”
The performer’s expression of his spiritual
“source” gives the audience the baton to walk through their own paradigm of
ontology, the poetry , prose and physical storytelling furnish us with the
necessary tools into a deep meditation. It undoubtedly begs the questions (or
theory) of being, becoming and unbecoming.
A winner of the Standard Bank Ovation
Award, Cape Town Fringe Fresh Performer Award and Cape Town Fringe Fresh
Creative Award for Directing, Tswalo
can be seen in the Playhouse Loft Theatre between May 8 and 12, 2019.
Schools performances of the acclaimed
production, which plays for 55 minutes without an interval, will be held from
Wednesday to Friday, May 8 to 10, at 10h00 (R30 tickets per learner booked
through Salescoordinator@playhousecompany.com or call 031 369 9407).
Public performances are on May 9 and 10 at
19h00, and May 11 at 14h00 and 19h00. Book through Computicket telephonically
on 0861 915 8000, online at www.computicket.com, or call Playhouse Box Office
031 369 9540 / 369 9596 (office hours).
For more about Tswalo and other shows to be seen in this year’s Playhouse Company
New Stages line-up, visit www.playhousecompany.com, email Sindi Sabelo, The
Playhouse Company’s Marketing & Communications Co-ordinator at
commscord@playhousecompany.com or call her on 031 369 9405.
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