£12.00
Concessions: £6.00
Tuesday - Saturday (no performance Tues 23 Feb), Wednesday 24th February 2010 - Saturday 13th March 2010 7.45PM
Thursday 4th March 2010 4.30PM
Thursday 11th March 2010 4.30PM
Matinees are schools perfomances open to the public
Audio described performance Friday 12 March 7.45pm, with Pauline Brandt and Eleanor Margolies
Running time1 Hour 5 mins
VenueDownstairs
Restrictions12+
(contains adult themes and images of violence)
Magnet Theatre, Cape Town
Please note that the advertised times are the start of the actual performance, not the time when doors open: please arrive in good time to collect your tickets and take your seats as, in most cases, we CANNOT admit latecomers for whatever reason. If you arrive after the start of a show you will NOT be entitled to a refund, so why not come early instead and enjoy a drink or a meal in our licensed Cafe/Gallery beforehand.
Magnet Theatre, Cape Town presents
Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking
Award-winning African physical theatre
Aggie and Ernestine are sisters and best friends. Playing together in their rural idyll, life couldn't be happier. That is, until their lives are shattered by violence.
Aggie and her mother are forced to flee their homeland, leaving behind the rest of their family, and Aggie's beloved sister Ernestine. Travelling from their central- African village, they make their way to the promised land: South Africa and its metropolitan hub, Cape Town.
Two actresses trace the story of Aggie and her mother as they travel across Africa to an alien environment. The production uses very little spoken dialogue, some in English, some in French.
The story is told through physical images and through the evocative musical text: a drawing of the pastoral village is burnt by hooded militia; pairs of shoes in the actors' hands trudge across sprinkled sand; and Cape Town's skyline is revealed in wire mesh.
FREE POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS
Tuesday 2 March: South African Theatre and its enduring worldwide influence
Panelists include British playwright Oladipo Agboluaje (Ìyà Ilé, The Christ of Coldharbour Lane, The Hounding of David Oluwale), and South African playwright and Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary University, Nadia Davids (At Her Feet, Cissie).
Tuesday 9 March: Art and Exile
Chaired by Almir Koldzic, Refugee Week UK Coordinator, the discussion explores the challenging relationship between the artist and the refugee.
SPECIAL GALA EVENT
Friday 26 February 7pm
Join us for a VIP evening including wine and canapes before the show: Tickets just £15
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
For 22 years Magnet Theatre has produced award-winning African physical theatre. Commissioned by the African Festival for Children and Youth Theatre in Yaounde, Cameroon, EVERY YEAR, EVERY DAY, I AM WALKING has toured the world and won prizes in South Africa and Argentina for its remarkable visual imagery, its musical score and for the virtuosity of its two actresses.
ABSA PRIZE FOR BEST ACTRESSES
at Aardklop National Arts Festival 2009
BEST FOREIGN PRODUCTION NOMINATION
at Teatro Del Mundo Awards, Argentina 2009
PICK OF THE FESTIVAL
The Star, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2007
What The Press Say...
To be honest, physical theatre is not everyone’s cup of tea, and I admit to not being well versed in the genre. But this harrowing and yet uplifting meditation on…” (read full review)
Lindsay Johns, Afridiziak — 1st March 2010
This is a piece of captivating physical theatre that tells the story of a young African refugee who flees her homeland and finds shelter in South Africa. Using not much…” (read full review)
Howard Loxton, British Theatre Guide — 1st March 2010
What You Have to Say...
what an amazing performance - the acting and the set was so genuine and multi layered I found myself in tears 20 minutes into the performance. I had a real…” (read full review)
|
|
