Tony Glazier
Reviews
venue Tricycle Theatre
Saturday, 20 June
This is a lively and colourful visual production with a lot of African village drum music and Zulu singing. It contains the usual, but very short, shabeen scene like Umoja and Foreplay.
The play is predominently in English but there are quite a lot of Zulu bits and it seems the story is sometimes a little difficult to follow just in English without an understanding of the Zulu!
In a remote and poor village a young girl, Thozama, struggles to survive finding it difficult to get any meat. Her father is a drunken layabout who gives his daughters virginity in return for his gambling debts.
She becomes pregnant and gives birth. A chance and terrifying encounter with an escaped moose change her life for ever. She kills the moose and has meat but then she is arrested by the police who find her cooking the Moose meat. The senior police man is WHITE ! ( Thats the part not the actor! ) He falls for her but at first cannot find a way to take her away from her poverty.
At the end, part of the African aspect of the play which does not seem well understood by UK reviewers, is that the girl is going to a "better place" with her "white man" ! Thats accompanied by the Zulu church song "We're going to a better place".
This would be enjoyed by anyone who loves the drum music, African singing and dancing and appreciates the versatility of the actors who play a multiplicity of parts. A 6' man sucking his thumb when he is a child for example!
Tony Glazier
The play is predominently in English but there are quite a lot of Zulu bits and it seems the story is sometimes a little difficult to follow just in English without an understanding of the Zulu!
In a remote and poor village a young girl, Thozama, struggles to survive finding it difficult to get any meat. Her father is a drunken layabout who gives his daughters virginity in return for his gambling debts.
She becomes pregnant and gives birth. A chance and terrifying encounter with an escaped moose change her life for ever. She kills the moose and has meat but then she is arrested by the police who find her cooking the Moose meat. The senior police man is WHITE ! ( Thats the part not the actor! ) He falls for her but at first cannot find a way to take her away from her poverty.
At the end, part of the African aspect of the play which does not seem well understood by UK reviewers, is that the girl is going to a "better place" with her "white man" ! Thats accompanied by the Zulu church song "We're going to a better place".
This would be enjoyed by anyone who loves the drum music, African singing and dancing and appreciates the versatility of the actors who play a multiplicity of parts. A 6' man sucking his thumb when he is a child for example!
Tony Glazier
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