Productions

23 years, a month and 7 days prides itself on being contemporary, womxn led, and multilingual. This moving piece uses the language of storytelling and physical theatre to engage with the complex struggles faced by womxn immersed in social and political environments that are systematically violent. It is set between contemporary South Africa’s higher learning institutions and Potters Field, a poverty-stricken place where the citizens have lost all hope and wait anxiously for their deaths. The themes of migration and self-actualisation are explored. A young womxn, Nontyatyambo, finds conflict between her identity and her environment. She must give herself permission to take up space, to define and re-define her position and thus how she envisions her life and her society.

Performed in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa.

Created by  Nwabisa Plaatjie as part of the Magnet Theatre 2016 Theatremaking Internship Program with the cast of third year Magnet trainees on the Full Time Training and Job Creation Program.