{"id":79,"date":"2017-11-16T22:08:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T22:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.dustysheldon.com\/?post_type=theatre&p=79"},"modified":"2017-11-22T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T20:14:26","slug":"prompts-for-future-africa","status":"publish","type":"theatre","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/prompts-for-future-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompts for Future Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPRISING<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>A landfill of functioning and durable electronic goods\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Manje-manje – Just now, now now, just past or just approaching. Circular<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0<\/em>Dystopian, graphic novel<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Charged, fatalistic with small gaps for planting seeds<\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Dated Central African punk rock<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Out of this pile of obsolete but recyclable material rises a shape, a figure, slowly, painfully dramatically\u2026triumphantly a superhero, a timetraveler made of lead, mercury, glass, cabling, batteries and electric chords, transistor chips<\/p>\n

CHARACTERS:\u00a0<\/em>Afrosteampunk superhero<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

ASTRONAUTUS AFRIKANUS VOLUME II<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Zambian Academy of Science Space Research Religion and Philosophy in Lusaka and an all girls Catholic boarding school in a small town in South West England and The Pan African Space Station in Cape Town<\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>60\u2019s 80\u2019s 00\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Revolutionary\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Zambian 60\u2019s punk rock\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

IMAGES:\u00a0<\/em>Inside of a space ship, inside of a girls dorm, inside a turntable<\/p>\n

CHARACTERS:\u00a0<\/em>Mwaba Mwamba – afronaut\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

REGISTRY<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Hospital maternity ward<\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Nowish or at least manje-manje<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Expectant\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>A melodic composition of beeps, whirrs, breathing, heartbeats, sighs, births, deaths<\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>Babies everywhere<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

TRANSIT LOUNGE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Transit Lounge\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Fluid\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Counting in as many African languages as possible<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Setting up tents<\/p>\n

CHARACTERS:\u00a0<\/em>3 Generations of African women. All time travelers<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

TRANSPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Nomadic<\/p>\n

INTERACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Life or Death<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>10 Africans busy building personal teleportation devices from new things and old things. They often stop to listen. The children have TV\u2019s for heads<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Galactic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Dream Time<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0<\/em>Changing<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Changing\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Changing<\/p>\n

FIGURES: <\/em>She becomes a desert plant with ancient healing properties. She becomes an alone. He becomes a fractal. She becomes a night sky. He becomes yesterday. She becomes a portal. He becomes an animal skin. She becomes a hot spring. He becomes a desert lizard. She becomes a King. He becomes a bird. She becomes a masquerade. They become a play<\/p>\n

POWER:\u00a0<\/em>Plenty of it. Equally<\/p>\n

ECHOES:\u00a0<\/em>My Africa is Always in the Becoming \u2013 Faustin Linyekula<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

PEOPLE\u2019S PEOPLE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Wilderness\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Returned from Time\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>On the brink\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Ancient<\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>Sangomas appear from everywhere. Young and old. They fill the area. They keep arriving. They bring their people<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

THE NAMIB <\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Sand Dunes. Skeleton Coast shipwrecks on dry ocean beds<\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Vast<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0<\/em>Desert hot\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Water\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

FIGURES: <\/em>Desert Beetles<\/p>\n

QUESTIONS:\u00a0<\/em>What kinds of characters emerge from the oldest desert in the world<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

HINDFORESIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Suspended\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Suspended<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0<\/em>Independence<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>dreamlike<\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Zambian National Anthem<\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>3 versions of Kenneth Kaunda: His younger self who plays with a wire space ship; On his first day in office as the first Zambian head of state; On his last day in office as President of the country after 27 years<\/p>\n

IMAGES:\u00a0<\/em>Eagles, kingfishers, water, copper\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

CHANGES:\u00a0<\/em>All his selves enter a wire space ship. There is countdown. It blasts off<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

EAST WEST DUST PLUMES <\/strong><\/p>\n

CHARACTERS:\u00a0<\/em>2 characters attempt to traverse the Namib desert through east west dust plumes. They try. Lose everything. Sit. Try again. In Act 2 they try to keep the desert off the Yellow Brick Road<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

EXTINCT<\/strong><\/p>\n

TIME: <\/em>Terminal<\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Under a Shepherd\u2019s Tree<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>The characters perform a series of solos until they become extinct<\/p>\n

CHARACTERS:\u00a0<\/em>Namaqua chameleon, Namib long eared bat, Aardwolf<\/p>\n

PUZZLES:\u00a0<\/em>Extinction<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SAND AVALANCHE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Dune Slopes. Dune Streets. Inter-dune Valleys. Slipface dunes. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Slippery<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0<\/em>Unstable. Intense easterly winds<\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>Sidewinder Spiders<\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>Wind blown plant detritus accumulates in cushions on and within the slipface. It is re-exposed as the slip face moves\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

AFROEUROAMERICANO<\/strong><\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Mass migration of Europeans and Americans to Africa. The towers reconstitute. The planes land at their airports<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

RETURN<\/strong><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Present<\/p>\n

FIGURES: <\/em>People, Objects, Ideas, Animals try different ways of returning from the past. Some succeed<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

PLANT LIFE<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Organic matter growing<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Indigenous plants live, survive, replant themselves. They migrate all over Johannesburg and slowly take over the buildings and roads\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

A PLAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Your choice\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Always\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

INTERACTION: <\/em>A physical text, a poet, an image, a live sound core, a person to watch. A play<\/p>\n

CHARACTERS:\u00a0<\/em>The play is about the person watching<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

MOTHER \/HOOD\/RING<\/strong><\/p>\n

FIGURES: <\/em>Women. Black Ones.<\/p>\n

POWER: <\/em>The institution and the work of mothering \/ motherhood. The characters perform their mothering and motherhood in a way that makes them and their children abundantly joyful and truly content with the totality of their life choices<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

REVOLUTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>At odds with Time\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>At odds with Space<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0<\/em>At odds with Sound\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>At odds with Climate\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>A full stage. A repeated action. A stuck record. A new day that looks remarkably like the last one<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

RESTLESS GHOSTS AND TOO MANY QUESTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:<\/em>\u00a0Ordinary. Recognizable<\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Nowish<\/p>\n

PATTERNS:\u00a0<\/em>A play about restless ghosts and too many questions<\/p>\n

LANDSCAPE:\u00a0<\/em>Digitized<\/p>\n

MYTH:\u00a0<\/em>Hero\u2019s Journey<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

ART LIVES HERE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Art Gallery. Empty Plinths, frames and glasses cases – different shapes and sizes to accommodate different future works<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>The audience is given headsets as they enter. As they approach each empty plinth, frame, etc. they each hear a different and thoroughly engaging description of the future work before them<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

INSIDE THE OTHER SIDE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>In utero\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Uterine time<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>3 people recall dying. 1 person listens\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

BUSINESS AS USUAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE: <\/em>some mythical place where there are Jacaranda trees in summer<\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>In an unbelievable time \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Surreal<\/p>\n

INTERACTION: <\/em>Groups of people rush to stage singing. They are shot and fall and die, and keep singing.<\/p>\n

POWER:\u00a0<\/em>Different people take to the loud hailer to announce that the programme continues today as normal despite a series of disturbing incidents over night. The voice assures us all that there is nothing to worry about while the group cycles through singing and dying<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

ESTHER & EDWARD<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>My birthday\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>John & Alice Coltrane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

FIGURES: <\/em>Esther Phiri & Edward Nkoloso as children. She washes tomatoes to sell at Kamwala Market. He collects scrap metal<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Repeat. Revise. Reference<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

THANK YOU VERY MUCH<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Joburg suburbs and Joburg informal settlements\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>A nighttime that lasts until the action is complete<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Small groups of people approach Joburg\u2019s high suburban walls with tools of various kinds to break the walls down brick by brick. These bricks are collected and transported to where other houses are being built. <\/em>All this with the careful assistance of every available suburban security company. When every wall is down and as many new houses as possible are built from their bricks, Time may, if it so wishes, proceed once more<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

RAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Dream Time<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0<\/em>Raining jacaranda flowers and then wigs and then foam balls covered in \u2018java print\u2019. When the stage is knee deep in this someone comes to clear a perfect square, which is lit dramatically. In this square a chair appears and someone comes to braid, weave or cut someone\u2019s hair<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Festive<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

PRETORIA GIRLS HIGH<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>A hair salon. A portal\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>A past time and a future time<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Expectant\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Central African pop<\/p>\n

FIGURES: <\/em>Hair stylist Diviner. Black women, many of them<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>A long, long, long line of black women waiting to be attended to. One by one, the hair stylist\/diviner braids, weaves, twists, cuts, parts, persuades hair into ancient African hair styles. Not all of which are now making a comeback. The person being braided is transported each time<\/p>\n

ECHOES: <\/em>Shani Crowe\u2019s \u2018Braids\u2019 exhibition<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

KWEREKWERE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>A recognizable African city. Familiar and futuristic<\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>A future\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

INTERACTION: <\/em>\u00a0Everyone in this world is a superhero except 2 people. Only 2 non-superheroes allowed per non-superhero lifetime. They attempt to live, love, and work as foreigners in this place<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A DEEP SILENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Inside a deep silence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>A deeply silent one\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Deep Silence<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Something emerges \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I WANT PROTEAS FOR CHRISTMAS<\/strong><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Time un-writes and re-writes itself trying to send messages to the future.<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Various stages of raging fires and proteas growing and dying on a repetitive but disjoined loop that does not repeat in the same order each time<\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Voice over of different people, in different languages re-imagining the rules for spatial and temporal travel<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

DANCE JAM<\/strong><\/p>\n

INTERACTION: <\/em>Solos and duets created from the following physical vocabulary: bend, fold, twist, erode, interrupt, complete, flatten, stamp, engage, sweep, slide, rest, settle, hide, hope, take, smother, grind, birth, bridge, sharpen, trace<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

FREEDOM DREAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Measureless spacetime. Above the earth\u2019s atmosphere<\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Dream time<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Space ships \u2013 all the famous ones takeoff, land and crash as per historical record. We see their astronauts. On another part of the stage, Esther and Edward wake up early. She polishes tomatoes and he collects scrap metal<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

AWAKENING <\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>African cities\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Surreal<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0<\/em>Ideal<\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>Transformed statues<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>The statues of African heads of state melt into life. They come down from their concrete stands and re-convene the \u2018Berlin Conference\u2019 somewhere else. They call it something else and make different decisions<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

ONCE UPON A NIGHT AT KIPPIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Kippies, Johannesburg<\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Only just recognizable Brenda Fassie<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Brenda returns to tell us what it is like on the other side. Esther and Edward sit in the front row<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

DISASTER MANAGEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Immersive for the audience\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Unclear<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Urgent<\/p>\n

INTERACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Between audience members and the messages they receive\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

CHANGES:\u00a0<\/em>Everything, depending on how audience members respond<\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>Water is scarce. Audience members are assigned to rescue groups. \u00a0They receive a message via text, whatsapp, twitter, facebook or skype\u2026from some someone who informs them of a family at the brink of death from lack of water. The audience group must make a plan to get water to this family. Each audience group is immersed in a different natural disaster scenario<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

LEGENDS OF KAMWALA MARKET<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>A corner of Kamwala Market in Lusaka\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Before Esther Phiri became a famous boxer<\/p>\n

IMAGES:<\/em>\u00a0tomatoes, rituals, boxing gloves\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Mohammed Ali goes to the market to buy tomatoes. He sees a girl selling them. He is drawn to her. Something in her eyes. They shake hands. She has a good grip. He returns every week to buy tomatoes from her and foretells her future in which she is a great boxing champion. She believes him<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

PEOPLE FABLES<\/strong><\/p>\n

FIGURES:<\/em>\u00a0 Mantis, Tortoise, Spider, Hare, Elephant, Lion, Snake<\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>The figures re-write their fables so that their kind are the audience. People feature as enemies, ghosts, strange creatures to be avoided, tricksters, liars, and thieves. Metaphors are made of our stereotyped attributes and by these the animals learn right and wrong<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

THEY KNOW US FROM WHAT THEY FIND<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Desolate, ruble remains\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>A time when the world as we know it has finally imploded<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Too hot, or too cold, too wet or too dry, depending on what kind of world ending, climatic catastrophe the theatre makers imagine has destroyed us<\/p>\n

PATTERNS:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>Endings and beginnings<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>A team of archeologists from another world have discovered remnants of our civilizations. They know us from what they find<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

ZOO STORY<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>A zoo\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Unsure \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

MOOD: <\/em>Historical\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND: \u00a0<\/em>West World sound track\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>Blacks visit human zoos of white people. They are naked, shackled, pathetic, bedraggled, translucent circus freaks<\/p>\n

ECHOES:<\/em>\u00a0 Brett Bailey\u2019s exhibits A & B<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

SINKING SHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Slave Ship holds\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Looped\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Deadly and then jovial\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Static white noise and then dance party music<\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>In the slave ship hold, stacked to the brim are white people packed head to toe. They rise slowly, helping each other. Slowly the slave ship transforms into a cruise ship and the white people drink and party. This goes on for a while until the ship hits an iceberg and sinks. Quickly. There are 2 survivors who have very different stories to tell<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

OH SO ORDINARY OR WHAT A BORING PLAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>A world of inter-racials and their brownish offspring going about their business. Just that\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

IN PARALLEL <\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>A selection of African countries simultaneously\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>Fathers and their left-handed sons\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>The sons teach their fathers how to write. The fathers raise their sons as feminists<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

MIRROR MIRROR<\/strong><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Long\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Introspective<\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Quiet<\/p>\n

ACTION:<\/em>\u00a0Audiences are each invited to come and sit in front of a mirror and on a circular floor cloth of shiny wax print. They are instructed to describe the ideal version of themselves as an African. This version appears before them. They converse<\/p>\n

MYTH:\u00a0<\/em>Snow White<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A PLAY ABOUT WHATEVER YOU LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Extraordinary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Now<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Fantastic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Unforgettable<\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>Striking<\/p>\n

LANDSCAPE:\u00a0<\/em>Immense\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>An excellent piece of creative work in Zulu, Bemba, Twi, Yoruba or Swahili with Zulu, Bemba, Twi, Yoruba, or Swahili subtitles depending on who is in the audience<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

THE MARVELOUS PLAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Marvelous\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Marvelous<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0<\/em>Marvelous<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Marvelous<\/p>\n

PATTERNS:\u00a0<\/em>Marvelous<\/p>\n

FIGURES:<\/em>\u00a0Utterly marvelous<\/p>\n

LANDSCAPE:\u00a0<\/em>Marvelous<\/p>\n

CHANGES:\u00a0<\/em>Everything, marvelously.<\/p>\n

CHARACTERS:\u00a0<\/em>Esther and Edward<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

BABYSPIT<\/strong><\/p>\n

MYTH:\u00a0<\/em>The spit of African babies is prized above all else for its capacity to reveal people\u2019s destinies when applied to the area between the shoulder blades<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Kwame Nkrumah University in Kabwe, Zambia<\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>1967<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0<\/em>Revolutionary<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>On the brink of something extraordinary<\/p>\n

LANGUAGE:\u00a0<\/em>Bemba, Nyanja, Lozi, Tonga, Ndebele, English<\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>Edward Mukuka Nkoloso addresses the very first intake of students at Kwame Nkrumah University (then known as Kabwe Teachers College)<\/p>\n

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NOMADIA<\/strong><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>A time when countries as we know them now have been abolished\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>People move when and where they desire for purposes of their choosing. They are restless, rootless, nomadic<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A GET TOGETHER OF THE GODS<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>The heavens, as it were\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Heavenly, as it were<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Dionysian<\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>gods<\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>Rain god, Sun god, Sky god, Earth god, Wind god wine and dine. They are intoxicated and eat a decadent meal of humans. They spare only those who can speak multiple languages fluently. These will re-populate the new world. Among those spared are Esther and Edward<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

INTELLIGENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Somewhere familiar\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

FIGURES:<\/em>\u00a02 identical people. One of them is a robot<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>A human and their identical robot \/ a robot and their identical human have a heated argument. One of them kills the other. It is unclear if the human has won or the robot<\/p>\n

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. . . I PRESUME<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>A grand hall that turns into a music box\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>The Queen\u2019s Birthday<\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Sordid and celebratory<\/p>\n

SOUND:\u00a0<\/em>Something that\u2019s good for a duet and Happy Birthday<\/p>\n

IMAGES:\u00a0<\/em>Mosi ao tunya (the smoke that thunders)<\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>David Livingstone, The Queen of England, and armies of Africans\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>David and Liz dance a duet. They are surrounded by armies of armed Southern Africans who kill the pair in more and more inventive ways at the end of each dance while singing Happy Birthday (one of those nasty, playground versions). Each time David and Liz die for a moment, rise and dance again until they become 2 bloody figures on a music box<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

CAPTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>A ward in a laboratory on the continent\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0<\/em>Reverent<\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>The space is filled with people in beds on wheels. Each is hooked up to a portable dream capture device. Dreams are examined and recorded as history<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

GALACTICA<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>A classroom \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>Audience joins a class of learners studying what we know as observational astronomy, astrometry, planetary geology, physical cosmology, and other branches of space science in Swahili, Twi, Yoruba, isiXhosa, Bemba, Shona, or any other languages of the director\u2019s choosing. Esther and Edward are among the audience<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A DAY AT THE AFRICAN IMMORTALITY LAB<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>The African Immortality Laboratory<\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>The newly born, the newly dead, and the long dead<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

LOOK UP<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Empty stage<\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Unclear<\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>Everyday Africans<\/p>\n

INTERACTION:\u00a0<\/em>People arrive one by one or in small groups. They look up, smile, and silently agree to keep the secret of what they have seen, between them<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

AND SO WE LIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>A time when life expectancy is determined by the depth of one\u2019s capacity to dream<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

USELESS GOOD ENGLISH OR THE DECOLONIAL PLAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Ngugi Wa Thiongo\u2019s future\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

FIGURES:<\/em>\u00a0Brownish, Brown, browner, brownest people<\/p>\n

LANGUAGE:<\/em>\u00a0Anything but English<\/p>\n

IMAGES: <\/em>A pile of burnt English dictionaries \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

ACTION: <\/em>Decolonization in practice<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

OF ALL THE STUPID THINGS TO TRY TO DO<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Impossible fantasy\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

FIGURES:\u00a0<\/em>Refugees, nomads, exiles, travelers, visitors and any other migrants of all shapes and sizes<\/p>\n

IMAGES:\u00a0<\/em>Whole cities built of suitcases<\/p>\n

LANDSCAPE:\u00a0<\/em>Immobile<\/p>\n

CHANGES:\u00a0<\/em>Levels of failure<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Different attempts to stop human mobility<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

CAMP<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>A migrant camp\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Just Now<\/p>\n

POWER:\u00a0<\/em>Toppled<\/p>\n

LANGUAGE:\u00a0<\/em>A new Creole \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>A migrant camp has grown so large that it has taken over the host city. The migrants call a meeting with the few remaining hosts who have neither fled or died<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

CROSSINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Limbo\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Eternal<\/p>\n

PATTERNS:\u00a0<\/em>A collection of monologues about border crossings – Monologues about making it across.<\/p>\n

INTERACTION:\u00a0<\/em>Exchange\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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UNCONDITIONAL HOSPITALITY OR WHEN WILL THE PLAY START<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:\u00a0<\/em>Limbo\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0<\/em>Still<\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0<\/em>Expectant\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

FIGURES: A single figure<\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0<\/em>The audience waits for the play to start. It doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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YOUR TURN<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPACE:<\/em><\/p>\n

TIME:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

CLIMATE:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

MOOD:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

SOUND\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

CLASS: <\/em><\/p>\n

PATTERNS:<\/em><\/p>\n

APPEARANCE OF FIGURES:<\/em><\/p>\n

INTERACTION:<\/em><\/p>\n

POWER:<\/em><\/p>\n

LANGUAGE:<\/em><\/p>\n

IMAGES:<\/em><\/p>\n

LANDSCAPE:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

CHANGES:<\/em><\/p>\n

ACTION:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

MYTH:<\/em><\/p>\n

INTENTION:<\/em><\/p>\n

ECHOES:<\/em><\/p>\n

CHARACTERS:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

PUZZLES:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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GLOSSARY:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Manje manje: A temporally fluid southern African phrase directly translating into English as \u2018now now\u2019 and commonly used to refer to a time that has either just past or is soon approaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sangoma: Traditional Healer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kenneth Kaunda: Zambia\u2019s first President.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacarada\u2019s: A tree common to the Southern African region with a distinct and fragrant purple flower.<\/span><\/p>\n

Esther Phiri: A current boxing champion and Zambia\u2019s most famous athlete.<\/span><\/p>\n

Edward Nkoloso: Founder of a Zambian Space Program in the mid 1960\u2019s called The Zambia Academy of Science Space Research and Philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Java\u2019 Print: Also known as wax print, Dutch wax print, Java print, or Dutch Java. Mass produced cotton fabric with origins in Indonesia and produced by the Dutch for distribution in Europe where it was unpopular and dumped as surplus on African shores. It has come to be associated distinctly as \u2018African\u2019 fabric.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pretoria Girls High: A High School in Pretoria, South Africa, where in late 2016 students protested against the school\u2019s racist code of conduct that stipulated they must chemically straighten their hair.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kwerekwere: A derogatory term used across South Africa to refer to African nationals from other parts of the continent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Proteas: South Africa\u2019s national flower (and name of the national cricket team).<\/span><\/p>\n

Kippies: A legendary Jazz Club in Johannesburg named after saxophone player Kippie Moeketsi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brenda Fassie: Famous South African Afropop vocalist known also as \u2018Ma Brrr\u2019, \u2018Madonna of the Townships,\u2019 and \u2018The Black Madonna.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Kamwala Market: One of several large shopping markets in Lusaka.<\/span><\/p>\n

West World: An American science fiction television series.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brett Bailey: South African theatre maker and festival curator and Artistic Director of the theatre company Third World Bun Fight.<\/span><\/p>\n

Faustin Linyekula: Congolese contemporary dance choreographer and dancer, and founder of Studios Kabako.<\/span><\/p>\n

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