A WOMAN IN WAITING at Baxter Theatre Centre

Dates: (9/25/2013 - 10/12/2013 )

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Baxter Theatre Centre

Main Road
Rondebosch,Cape Town 7701

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Phone: +27 21 685 7880

Tickets: R100.00 - R150.00

Running Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

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A Woman in Waiting is a powerful biographical journey into the dark heart of what life was like for women in apartheid South Africa which has won several international awards. In this one-woman tour de force, Thembi Mtshali leads us from her memories of a rural childhood, waiting to see her mother once a year, through the exhilaration of urban chaos and unfolding realisations of the humiliations her mother endures, to her own years as a domestic worker, leaving her baby in order to tend other people's children as her mother once had to leave her. Her transformation into a performer and singer who would bear witness to these years is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and a celebration of the capacity to “speak or our hearts will burst”. Through searing narrative, lullabies, chanting, haunting images and powerful song , A Woman in Waiting speaks for South African matriarchs who have endured life in the shadow of apartheid's brutal grip, and held themselves and their families together against unimaginable odds.

Cast and Creative team for A WOMAN IN WAITING at Baxter Theatre Centre

Created and directed by Yael Farber
Written by Yael Farber with Thembi Mtshali
Starring Thembi Mtshali

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