Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) in cooperation with DBS Arts Centre, located along the Robertson Quay in Singapore, is presenting the Mies Julie, a play produced and performed by Baxter Centre at the University of Cape Town in association with South Africa Theatre.
Written and directed by Yael Farber, named as Artist of the Year 2003 in her native South Africa, Mies Julie is a controversial, vibrant, intensive and hard-hitting play. Director describes it as text articulating the fears, desires, resentments...
I would add the notion of freedom, search for identity, self recognition, love&hate relationship, despair, survival, heritage, pride, family, history, politics, apartheid, hypocrisy, clash of material and spiritual, religion, search for happiness, human rights, suffering....
Director's words of invitation say:
"We welcome you into the heat of Vaneen Plaa's Kitchen."
"We hope its truths might speak to you not only of South Africa's complexity - but the unaddressed ghosts of any nation waiting to be acknowledged."
"Over as single night, a young woman and her father's servant strip away the layers that protected and kept them form each-other until now."
The play is driven by element of surprise. It shocks with abrupt changes of the tone and movement. The actors move like parkour athletes and gracious lovers in the same time.
The language is strong with the accents determined by the origin and heritage. The scenes are powerful, filled with physical interaction insinuating sex, passion and lust.
Each scene is wrapped in a symbol given in color, tool or light.
It ends in catharsis and leaves the witnesses in drama to listen the song of the sitting ghosts.
In all regards this play deserves international awards and tags like Top Ten Productions of 2012 given by the New York Times and 5th Best Production of 2012 by the Guardian.
For a Singaporean stage this play represents a brave getaway. I truly enjoyed to witness something controversial and alternative.
This is a must see play.
Hope that you'll have a chance.
:)
Eva
Footnotes:
photos: by Eva Kucich taken from the brochure about the play "Mies Julie" and shooting the allowed scenes on the stage
description: utilised fragments of the brochure about the play "Mies Julie"
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