Market Theatre Foundation to live stream some of its productions
Catch these shows during Salute the Playwright's online season.
For the next few weeks, the Market Theatre Foundation will live stream some of its productions across all its social media platforms.
What’s happening at the theatre in March, April and May:
• March 12 to 21 Avalon will be performed online.
Avalon revolves around Sabantu, a young nouveau riche who, desperate to save his mother’s wilting life, takes on the advice from a traditional prophet to embark on a search for his grandmother’s grave in one of South Africa’s largest cemeteries.
Sabantu is instructed to perform a ritual on the grave, which is meant to remove the black cloud lingering heavily over his family. This ostensibly simple task, however, soon becomes a daunting journey that confronts Sabantu in profound ways.
• A Vegan killed my Marriage will be available from March 26 to April 4.
James is a meat-eating South African man. He is also plugged into the world media and insistent concerns about the meat industry’s role in the impending climate catastrophe. He has done his best to ignore such concerns until a work trip serves him an unexpected double whammy and he is shaken out of his comfort zone.
He becomes a vegetarian that he is very pleased about, but it leads to some unexpected complications.
His new lifestyle does not fit well into his meat-eating family. The more radical he becomes the more conflict is created at home. His vegetarianism changes into veganism and his lifestyle becomes a kind of crusade.
The skirmishes at home escalate into a full-blown war when James, who only a few months before, had been the king of the braai, demands an entirely meat-free home.
The play explores eating animals, the current climate crisis and it’s associated lifestyle choices in a hilarious domestic drama with the survival of the human species at its heart.
• Di a Paro Tsa Mama will be showcased from May 21 to 31.
On the eve of their mother’s funeral, two sisters, aged 23 and 29, sort through their beloved matriarch’s clothes in search of the perfect outfit to bury her in.
Their sensitive nostalgia morphs into harrowing discoveries about death, grief and survival
For more information, contact 011 832 1641 or send an email to info@markettheatre.co.za
