A Lie of the Mind

Title

A Lie of the Mind

Department

Theatre

Genre

Drama

Keywords

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Production Type

Fourth Year Student Production See all items with this value

Description

In their final graduating production, the CTDPS presents the 4th Year Actors directed by Geoffrey Hyland in Sam Shepard’s award-winning play, “A Lie of The Mind”.

Hailed as Shepard’s richest and most penetrating play, ‘A Lie of The Mind’ explores family dysfunction and the nature of love set against the backdrop of the gritty America West. The story alternates between two families in the wake of a severe and life-altering incident of domestic abuse. Through the play Shepard creates an alternately amusing and haunting portrait of displaced and irreparably damaged people, of broken connections, and of chronic lapses of memory. When the mind can take no more, it clings to old-fashioned beliefs and comforting rituals…or it survives by breaking down and rewiring its pathways.

‘’A Lie of The Mind is a mesmerising, emotionally raw play that once again pulls the view into Shepard’s distinctive world of disturbed reality and hungry hearts.” – Variety.

Language

English

Script Type

Scripted

Year Created

2018

Opening Date

10 October 2018

Closing Date

13 October 2018

Start Time

19h30

Ticket Price

R70 / R50 (students/pensioners)

Performance Venue

The Little Theatre

Geographic Location of Performance

Cape Town

Producer

CTDPS

Director

Geoffrey Hyland

Text By

Sam Shepard

Cast

Adam Lennox See all items with this value
Tevin Musara See all items with this value
Caleb Swanepoel See all items with this value
Bianca Oosthuizen See all items with this value
Thukelo Maka See all items with this value
Fadzai Simango See all items with this value
Cassandra Mapanda See all items with this value
Sibonokuhle Mensah See all items with this value
Mphumzi Nontshinga See all items with this value
Siphesiphle Mganga See all items with this value
Sesanye Sealy See all items with this value

Set Designer

Bridie Bird

Lighting Designer

Richard White

Costume Designer

Leigh Bishop

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