The Department of Arts, Culture and Media presents the annual Theatre and Performance Studies Production featuring our senior theatre students.
"We Are Proud to Present A Presentation About the Herero of Namibia Formerly Known As Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915"
written by Jackie Sibblies Drury and directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu
This play is an inventive absurd, comical, truthful and poignant exploration of race, power and privilege. The piece subverts and challenges our own assumptions about storytelling and who has a right to tell what story.
This production explores the “hidden truths” behind the first genocide of the 20th century. The show predominantly exists in a rehearsal room where we witness a group of young idealist theatre makers made up of three black and three white actors, collectively attempt to create a theatrical presentation about the Namibian genocide of the Herero tribe, at the hands of their German colonizers.
Interracial and interpersonal dynamics catalyze the creation process testing the actors capacity to empathize and listen, and move the work forward. Eventually the ugly truths about the past collide with the idealistic notions of the present making the audience reflect and question their own assumptions about the “other.”
Show Dates: March 12-14 and 19-21
Location: Leigha Lee Browne Theatre, UTSC
General admission: $10, Student/Senior tickets: $8, Group (+10): $5
Questions? Please email acm-da@utsc.utoronto.ca or call 416-208-4747
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois
Proudly sponsored by U of T Affinity Partners: Manulife, MBNA and TD Insurance