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THEATRE
Transit
Venue: New Africa Theatre, 43 Golf Course
Rd, Sybrand Park. Tel: (021) 696 9039
Time: Tue - Fri @ 7:00pm, Sat @ 3:00pm & 7:00pm
Price: R50
Performances: 15 Oct - 7 Nov 2009
Genre: Drama
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New Africa Theatre Association (NATA) is no longer only the
designation of a long standing theatre institution and academy; it is now
set to be the name of Cape Town’s newest theatre as it launches the New
Africa Theatre with a new play in partnership with the Royal Dramatic
Theatre of Sweden. Transit premičres at this newly equipped theatre for a
season from 15th October to 7 November 2009.
The script is by Ian Bruce, internationally acclaimed writer
and award winner of ‘Groundswell’. Multi-award winner Clare Stopford
directs well-known and up and coming artists that include Mbulelo
Grootboom and Sylvia Bulelwa Ntlantlu from Cape Town, Melinda Kinnaman,
Peshang Rad and Christina Samson from Sweden, joined by itinerant West
African music maker Aboubacar Ladji Kánte.
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‘Transit is about a flight from Cape Town to Stockholm via
Frankfurt’; says Ian Bruce. ‘It is detoured by a storm and makes an
unscheduled stop in a North East African country, destabilized by rebels.
An array of Europeans and Africans are forced to wait interminably, in the
claustrophobic transit area of a military airport, for their plane to be
refueled. As it happens the interrupted journey also frustratingly puts on
hold the passages of major life adjustments that each individual is going
through. The longer the resumption of the flight is delayed the more they
get to know about each other and the more inescapably they involve
themselves, morally, opportunistically, manipulatively, even physically,
in the course of each others lives. While the story definitely
accommodates a descriptive clash of African and European aspirations and
anxieties it becomes, more importantly for our times, a cross-continental
drama of human need, resilience and possibility.’
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