Paving the way for Women’s Month this
August, the International Labour, Research & Information Group (ILRIG) is
partnering with international theatre makers and artists from Johannesburg’s
renowned Market Theatre Laboratory to bring stories of women activists to
community stages across South Africa.
The play, Three Women (Break the Silence), tackles women’s distinct
experiences of vulnerability, exposure, and community within social movements. “Break
the silence,” a call protesting gender-based violence in South Africa and
across the world. The play tells the stories of members of Remmoho (a women’s
group established within Johannesburg’s Anti-Privatisation Forum - APF - which
existed from 1999-2011).
A work of documentary and verbatim theatre,
Three Women takes its shape from
freedom songs, field notes, and interviews conducted by Omotayo Jolaosho, a
cultural anthropologist who worked with the APF in 2009 and 2010.
In collaboration with Jamaican-born
director Vernice Miller, artists of Market Theatre Lab make up the play’s Very
Vocal Ensemble.
A full production of Three Women will tour in Durban as follows:
August 6 – 10h00 to 13h00 - Austerville
Community Hall
August 7 – 10h00 to 13h00 -KwaMakhutha
Hostel
August 8 – 10h00 to 13h00 -Thokoza Women's
Hostel
August 10 – 18h00 to 20h00 – Bat Centre
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