Frans Swart adapts daring thriller, The Curing Room, for Market Theatre stage
JOBURG – Die Rypmaakkamer is set to take on the Market Theatre stage from 7 – 30 June.
Die Rypmaakkamer, a powerful, thought-provoking play with moments of dark humour is set to take on the Market Theatre stage from 7 – 30 June.
“After seeing The Curing Room at the Edinburgh Arts Festival, I wondered: why didn’t the Nazis just execute these men in front of a firing squad, as was usually done at the time? Why lock them naked and starving in the basement, to die a slow death? How cruel and barbaric can humans be? We cannot allow those in power to abuse it, and that is the reason why I decided to stage the play in South Africa,” said Swart, the director of Die Rypmaakkamer.
The play is Frans Swart’s adaptation of David Ian Lee’s The Curing Room which was first performed at the Edinburgh Arts Festival in 2014. Die Rypmaakkamer is a bold and daring thriller inspired by true events and features David Konrad, Mauritz Badenhorst, Dirk Joubert, Anele Situlweni, Gregg Pettigrew, Nathan Hammond and Zack Mtombeni.
“Though what befell seven hapless men in the last year of the war will forever remain conjecture – as well, no doubt, the identities of the men themselves – I wrote the play with respect to the memories of all actual soldiers and civilians who fought and died in The Patriotic War,” Lee said.
Die Rypmaakkamer features nudity, language and violence and carries an age restriction of 18 years. It is presented in association with The Market Theatre and the proud support of RSG, Sounds Good, Hollywood Costumes, Van Loveren Wines and Stuttaford Van Lines.
