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THEATRE
Ingcwaba
Lendoda Lise Cankwe Ndlela
Venue: Baxter Theatre, Main Rd, Rondebosch. Tel:
(021) 680 3989.
Time: Mon - Sat @ 8:30pm
Price: R35 - R50
Performances: 10 - 20 Feb 2010
Genre: Drama
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Told in poetic isiXhosa with English
translations projected onto a screen the production explores economic
migration and its impact, using traditional story-telling, rituals, song,
physical theatre and multi-media. The artists include Magnet Theatre’s
resident actress Faniswa Yisa and the Magnet Theatre Trainees.
Ingcwaba
lendoda lise cankwe ndlela uses the N2 highway as the background to the
play. The N2 highway up the East coast of South Africa links Cape Town and
the Western Cape to the Eastern Cape which is the traditional home of the
amaXhosa. For years the Xhosa people have migrated to Cape Town along
this route and in recent years a flood of new arrivals driven by poverty
have poured into the townships surrounding Cape Town setting up informal
settlements and increasing the burden on an already stretched local
government infrastructure struggling to cope with the inequalities and
backlogs brought about by the apartheid system.
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Using original songs and original footage
of the landscape along the N2 from Cape Town to the Eastern Cape, ingcwaba
lendoda lise cankwe ndlela takes the audience on a journey deep into the
consequences of migration on the fabric of the family. Drawing strongly on
the stories, images and rituals that surround these journeys up and down
the N2, the characters are faced with the disappointments and affirmations
of the anticipated home, new meanings and old ones are confused.
Questions continue to be asked as the journey home never ends and the
traveller sometimes gives up in the process of searching. Hence, the title
“the grave of a man is next to the road” taken from the isiXhosa idiomatic
expression which suggests that people are always on the road.
Having received critical acclaim at the
National Arts Festival, Grahamstown in 2009 after first performing on the
Infecting the City festival platform, Ingcwaba lendoda lise cankwe ndlela
- the grave of the man is next to the road, opens at the Artscape Arena
for a season from 10 to 20 February, 2010.
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