UCT Drama Rounds Out 2013 Winter Season with LA RONDE and THE GIRL WHO KILLED TO SAVE
By: Kelsey Denette May. 10, 2013
Along with their previously announced production of MIRAKEL, UCT Drama will round out their 2013 Winter Season with Arthur Schnitzler's LA RONDE and H.I.E. Dhlomo's UNONGQAWUSE: THE GIRL WHO KILLED TO SAVE.
LA RONDE will be directed by Jacqui Singer and will featuring the Drama Department's final year students. Written in 1897, with the threat of syphilis as the backdrop it explores and comments on the sexual morals of the society of fin-de-siècle Vienna. It takes the form of a macabre "dance" in which ten lovers of differing social strata are inexorably linked in a cycle of love, deceit and hypocrisy. An intricate web of relationships is formed and the various couples' clumsy maneuvers of seduction are portrayed as both poignant and ironically humorous. The desperate struggle in the pursuit of love and happiness demonstrates an inability to communicate which reflects our own contemporary South African society.UNONGQAWUSE: THE GIRL WHO KILLED TO SAVE will be presented in a dynamic production directed by Mfundo Tshazibane. The play tells the story of Christian emergence into Xhosa society and the consequence of a 'leap of faith' inorder to hold on to a traditional way of life. Under the influence of the prophet Mhlakaza and his niece Nongqawuse, whose visions became the rallying point of a society, a number of Xhosa chiefs directed their people to sacrifice their cattle and burn their crops in expectation of a return of the ancestors who would drive away the colonists. The result: widespread famine, ironically leading to tighter colonial administration, greater numbers of converts at the missions, and destitute people moving south in their thousands to become laborers or vagrants in the Emerging Colony. It was the salvation and yet the death of many.Tickets for both plays, as well as for MIRAKEL, can be booked at Webtickets.
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