A first draft showing of Magnet Theatre's new work, I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE will debut at the end of August. A one-woman show written and performed by Jennie Reznek, I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE is a poetic reworking of the Persephone story.
Carl Jung said: "We could therefore say that every mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother, and that every woman extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter." In I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE, three incarnations of women - a mother, a daughter and an old crone - combine in a haunting exploration of past, present and future selves. Drawing loosely on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, this new play explores the process of individuation, the inevitability of the journey into the shadow and into the unknown, of the bonds that connect mothers and children to each other, of loss and the dense beautiful soaring life through which we are all traveling. I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE is Jennie Reznek's first one woman show since THE SHOW'S NOT OVER TIL THE FAT LADY SINGS, which performed for two years all over South Africa and the world. This production happily reconnects the old team of Magnet creatives who developed such award winning works as RAIN IN A DEAD MAN'S FOOTPRINTS, CARGO, ONNEST'BO, EVERY YEAR EVERY DAY I AM WALKING and VOICES MADE NIGHT. Directed by Mark Fleishman, I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE features choreography by Ina Wichterich, design by Craig Leo, original music by Neo Muyanga and voice coaching by Liz MillsVideos