Theatre Review: A brutally honest look at life and loss
The nature of this challenging play triggers intense experiences for the audience, cast and production crew, writes Kgomotso Moncho-Maripane
Death is a symbol of endings and beginnings. It is also a strong theme running through a series of plays at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. Now on is British playwright Zinnie Harris’s newest work, Meet Me at Dawn, starring veteran television and stage actresses Pamela Nomvete and Natasha Sutherland, directed by Lesedi Job. It is a thought experiment on the anguish that comes with death. Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, on at the Market Theatre until April 1, is Didion’s reflection on the death of her husband and their only child. In January Nomvete directed the Mike van Graan play Another One’s Bread, which uses death as a vehicle for issues around food and feeding schemes. For the leading ladies of Meet Me at Dawn, death as a cultural theme is a symbol for the shifts that are taking place right now. "This is something we discussed at the beginning of rehearsals -that we are on a dawn of a whole lot of new ideas. Old paradigms of thinking are shifting," says Sutherla...
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