Brandbaar
Title
Brandbaar
Department
Theatre
Genre
Hybrid of Theatre & Film
Production Type
Research Based Production
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Description
Brandbaar is the Afrikaans translation of the acclaimed production, Womb of Fire. This translated version was staged at the 2020 Woordfees Festival and the 2021 Suidoorserfees. It was reworked/redirected for the KKNK 2021 online festival. As such, the production was further translated for film (filmed as a theatre production in a theatre. The result is a hybrid between theatre and film. Set against an episode from the Indian epic, The Mahabharata, the play interweaves personal narrative and contemporary realities with the lives of two women from the founding years of the Cape Colony to interrogate the Womb of Fire that birthed South Africa. The play follows Grote Katrijn van Pulicat’s (1681-1683) journey across India to Batavia and then to Cape Town as the first female bandit slave; it then explores the briefly brutal life of Zara (1648-1671), a Khoekhoen servant woman who was violently punished posthumously by the VOC for the crime of suicide. Womb of Fire looks at the power of the performing female body to challenge the pornography of Empire, in the process decolonising and retrieving itself. The play reaches back and forward across time to reassemble the dismembered body, allowing it to speak.
Language
Afrikaans
Script Type
Scripted
Year Created
2020
Duration
01:00:00
Age Restriction
13
Geographic Location of Performance
Stellenbosch
Cape Town
Producer
The Mothertongue Project
Co Production with
Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
NAT
Toyota SU Woordfees
Suidoosterfees
Die Nasionale -Afrikaanse Teater-Inisiatief
Director
Dramaturg
Text By
Rehane Abrahams
Translated By
Rehane Abrahams
Cast
Rehane Abrahams
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Lukhanyiso Skosana
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Musical/ Sound Composer
Lukhanyiso Skosana
Musical Director
Lukhanyiso Skosana
Musician
Lukhanyiso Skosana
Lighting Designer
Costume Designer
Digital Designer
Filmed By
*Please make note that the video credits hold inaccuracies as to who filmed the production. Below is the correct metadata as provided by Rehane Abrahams on 2023/06/14.
Wynand Herholdt (director of photography)
Joshua Adams (B camera operator)
Edited By
Joshua Adams
Production Manager
Rehane Abrahams
Stage Manager
Amber Fox-Martin
