Eddie Redmayne has gouged out his own eyes on the steps of the National Theatre after having come under fire from disability activists protesting his plans to play Lear. His long-anticipated return to the stage looks set to break box office records. Kevin Spacey makes dazzling Old Vic comeback starring in play about his own downfall.
Actors do their best to blend in to the faceless glass city. They get desk jobs, they settle down, they raise families. None of it is real.
The curtain opens on the cold, wintry Atlantic Ocean.
When we see a train in the distance, headed straight for us at full speed, we realize that the central vanishing point is not painted but real.
At the heart of this work is an exploration of what it means to synergise ‘mainstream’ and ‘community’ theatre in rural South African contexts; it is a theatre that seeks to blur these historical, geographic, and theoretical divides.