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Available to book from 2 March 2011 until 9 March 2011
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If the work in progress we saw is anything to go by this promises to be a magical production (Night Out team comment)
Performers from South Africa and the North East of England have come together to create a rich visual story-telling show which will delight and enchant audiences both young and old. Set in South Africa and the North East, two simple stories are linked by a common theme – hope – and by the journey of the swallow which connects them
The cast: In additional to the UK cast, Dodgy Clutch are working with Uphondo Lwe Africa; a South African Theatre Company based in Port Elizabeth.
Founded in 1998 they are a multi-disciplinary theatre group presenting dance,storytelling, theatre and music. Rooted in African culture they have extensively toured
Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Their founder member Zamuxolo Mgoduka also maintains a career as a radio drama
actor, in 2004 he was appointed a director of the Port Elizabeth Opera House and of the Dance Company at the University of Port Elizabeth.
The story:
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Sisi is a young woman in the rural Ciskei, who longs to see her older brother. She knows only that when he left, he travelled north. We meet her when she is ‘telling her
letter’ to a swallow: ‘My dear brother, the ancestors say we must wait without hope, for hope would be waiting for the wrong thing. But I say that hope is swift, and flies on
swallows’ wings’. She recalls three events from her past, and as her story unfolds we visit, with humour and sadness, themes of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Tommy Bell is a blacksmith. Until the miners’ strike he was a farrier, and shod the pit ponies which hauled trucks along the shafts in pitch blackness. After the strike, when
the mines were shut down, his way of life and that of the mining communities came to an end. The ghosts of the past still haunt him, but it is in a simple memory of the
ponies running free as they share the summer air with the swallows that he begins to understand how his anger and disappointment are tying him to the shadow of the
past.
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Music- World Music, |
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| Night Out Office on 02920 441340 |
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