AnotherKind
About
Presented by the National Arts Festival, Winner of the 2020 Distell National Playwright Competition.
AnotherKind is a funeral for a piece of theatre which never existed and a celebration of the birth of a new hybrid artwork between the digital and the live. It draws from Amy Louise Wilson’s Distell National Playwright award-winning script ‘Another Kind of Dying’ which tells the story of Silumko - a young man from rural Eastern Cape who moves to Johannesburg after the death of his father. Due to the pandemic, ‘Another Kind of Dying’ was not able to be staged as a play.
This new work both builds on and breaks apart the original script across a series of short video, performance and sound pieces which were created over a 6 week creative lab in Cape Town, South Africa. This website is an intimate view into another kind of process – a meeting of text fragments, recorded rehearsals and performance and sound experiments which challenge the formal limits of live collaboration and theatrical experience.
With thanks to:
Puleng Stewart & Jannous Aukema (The Workshop, Cape Town), Rucera Seethal and the National Arts Festival Team, Mike van Graan
Presented by the National Arts Festival, Winner of the 2020 Distell National Playwright Competition.
AnotherKind is a funeral for a piece of theatre which never existed and a celebration of the birth of a new hybrid artwork between the digital and the live. It draws from Amy Louise Wilson’s Distell National Playwright award-winning script ‘Another Kind of Dying’ which tells the story of Silumko - a young man from rural Eastern Cape who moves to Johannesburg after the death of his father. Due to the pandemic, ‘Another Kind of Dying’ was not able to be staged as a play.
This new work both builds on and breaks apart the original script across a series of short video, performance and sound pieces which were created over a 6 week creative lab in Cape Town, South Africa. This website is an intimate view into another kind of process – a meeting of text fragments, recorded rehearsals and performance and sound experiments which challenge the formal limits of live collaboration and theatrical experience.
With thanks to:
Puleng Stewart & Jannous Aukema (The Workshop, Cape Town), Rucera Seethal and the National Arts Festival Team, Mike van Graan
Created by
Amy Louise Wilson Script & Creative Producer
Aphiwe Livi Performer & TranslatorFrancois Knoetze Art Director, Scenography & Video Art
Joanna Evans Performance Director & Co-creative Director
Gugulethu Duma Sound Artist
Duduetsang Lamola (blk banaana) Collage Artist Iman Isaacs Performer & Vocals
Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi Performer & Vocals Babalwa Makwetu Performer & Vocals Buhle Ngaba Performer & Vocals Kathleen Stephens Performer Thembekile Komani Performer
Phamela Manzi Performer
Gomez Bakwene Intern
Nicole Goto Intern
Yusrah Bardien Project Manager
Francis Burger Website design, editing, making
Zara Julius & KONJO Playlist Curation
Amy Louise Wilson Script & Creative Producer
Aphiwe Livi Performer & TranslatorFrancois Knoetze Art Director, Scenography & Video Art
Joanna Evans Performance Director & Co-creative Director
Gugulethu Duma Sound Artist
Duduetsang Lamola (blk banaana) Collage Artist Iman Isaacs Performer & Vocals
Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi Performer & Vocals Babalwa Makwetu Performer & Vocals Buhle Ngaba Performer & Vocals Kathleen Stephens Performer Thembekile Komani Performer
Phamela Manzi Performer
Gomez Bakwene Intern
Nicole Goto Intern
Yusrah Bardien Project Manager
Francis Burger Website design, editing, making
Zara Julius & KONJO Playlist Curation
