Le Dernier Appel/The Last Call : Gloss
Decolonisation is deconstructing our understanding of the choices we have to make, and making them.
Decolonisation is deconstructing our understanding of the choices we have to make, and making them.
My immediate response is through radio. Then I could hear the text and make meaning in my own mind; give body, color, setting, meaning to the images that drift toward me.
Gradually, the audience realizes that the rocks are this canyon's performers. It is the slowest performance to which this audience has ever borne witness.
You’re on a long slow road in the Karoo. It’s hot and dry and all of your previous girlfriends are hitchhiking out of Cradock.
Today, we're going on an adventure. We'll explore foreign countries, sail across rough waters, meet a few interesting characters, and, perhaps, experience the fullness of life.
It’s a performance about parents and children, about generations and time, about a beautiful, troubled nation, about race, about a father imagining a reconciled future for his son...
They must fully learn the role, but then are given an appropriate span of time to forget it sufficiently.