Athol Fugard’s Blood Knot returns to Market Theatre stages featuring top acting talent
By CityLife Arts Writer
Global theatre icon Athol Fugard’s production Blood Knot will make its unmissable return to the world renowned Market Theatre stages for a limited season 15 October – 14 November 2021.
Multi award winning theatre creatives team up for the first time to bring to life this timeless production sixty years after its first premier in 1961. This highly regarded play makes its return to the Market under the directorship of the Artistic Director James Ngcobo starring multi-dimensional acting veterans Mncedisi Shabangu and Craig Palm.
Television dynamite actor Craig Palm makes his long awaited debut at the Market Theatre in a riveting role that will challenge him like never before.
Fugard pens the mostamazing piece that tackles the theme of Brotherhood. The play is based in the suburb of Korsten in Port Elizabeth, a place packed with people who are desperately trying to find an opportunity that willoffer them somehope.
We witness how the two brothers navigate the intricacies of being stuck in a place that offers them nothing but it’s squalor and the poverty they are confronted with every single moment. They are forced to dreamof another reality, something else beyond. The theme of hope is very present in this play. Blood Knot has a very delicate conversation with our present realty, it poses questions about the collective journey that we have embarked on as a society, its pertinence to the contemporary landscape and how much about it is, timeless.
Blood Knot is dedicated to the memory of the great Zakes Mokae who made the role of Zacharia famous.
What will be exciting to audiences is Shabangu coming home to his first love and his interpretation of the role of Zacharia will leave audiences breathless and yearning for more riveting theatre. He has over the years mastered every role given to him across television and theatre. He will hold nothing back as he delivers a pulsating and enduring performance!
Blood Knot delves into the bone of love between brothers the kind that transcends skin color! Like all great classic plays Blood Knot is both relatable and searingly intimate!
Audiences will be treated to premium theatre production that will give them a performance that tackles race, love and brotherhood in a way they have never experience before. Catch this unmissable production for as little as R150 – Book your seats now!
Production Creative Team
Writer : Athol Fugard
Director : James Ngcobo
Lighting Designer: Mannie Manim
Props & Set Designer: Nadya Cohen
Costume Designer : oluthando Lobese
Sound Scaping & Designer : Dean Pitman
Voice Coach : Sipho Zakwe
Lighting implementer : uyanda Somkence
Stage Manager : Zandile Mawane
Performers
Craig Palm : as Morris
Mncedisi Shabangu : as Zacharia
Age Recommendation 13
Season: Friday 15 October – Sunday 14 November 2021
Venue: Mannie Manim Theatre
Performance times:: Tuesday – Saturday @19h00 and Sunday @15h15
Ticket prices: Tuesday – Thursday R90.00 Friday – Saturday R150.00 and Sunday R130.00
To make block bookings, please contact Anthony Ezeoke 011 832 1641ext 203/
083 246 4950.