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Restaging Ubu and the truth commission - 20 Years on (Paperback)
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Restaging Ubu and the truth commission - 20 Years on (Paperback)
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List price R299
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Discovery Miles 2 340
You Save R65 (22%)
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First premiered in South Africa at the Grahamstown festival in
1997, the play Ubu and the truth commission is being restaged
around the world to mark the occasion of 20 years after the end of
apartheid. Over its life it has become a set work in drama courses
locally and internationally. The play is a collaboration between
writer Jane Taylor, artist William Kentridge, and Basil Jones and
Adrian Kohler of the Handspring puppet company, recently acclaimed
for their play War horse, which has toured the world. The script,
together with a selection of William Kentridge's drawings, and
photographs taken from the performance showing the puppets and
performers, brings together the powerful multimedia effects of the
stage performance. And in this revised edition, the writer,
director and puppeteers have added to their notes accompanying the
play, reflecting on what the play means 20 years after it was first
performed. Ubu and the truth commission is based on the scandalous
character created by the French surrealist poet, Alfred Jarry, but
it is more than just a dramatisation of evil adapted to a
contemporary South African context. Taylor and Kentridge have
skilfully woven Jarry's themes of extreme violence, conceit,
cowardice and self-pity with revelations from the Truth and
reconciliation commission. Ubu is forced to confront the
consequences of his actions through the testimony of his victims.
The play remains as relevant today as it was 20 years ago.
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