The Market Theatre’s virtual offering, ‘Chilling with the Bard: A Shakespeare Season’, includes women performing traditionally male roles.
I knew the creatives would find different ways to market their stories even when their winning ticket — live theatre — was cancelled, and will probably be prohibited for the rest of the year. From the start of the first lockdown, Ngcobo knew he had to find ways to keep theatre going; to embrace, rather than defy, lockdown.
“Theatre will rise again,” Ngcobo says; in the meantime, it has given him the opportunity to showcase some performers who are Market regulars, as well as others he has always hoped to put on stage. “Covid hasn’t stifled our passion, just moved it into another space.”were given a scenario and asked to write something; others were asked to tell their own stories; and an international jazz hook-up was also made.
These past few months and those ahead have been all about finding ways to work: not only for audiences, but also for actors. Reversing the roles in this Shakespeare season, Ngcobo hoped to excite both parties with roles that were written more than 400 years ago, but are still relevant today., relevance is underlined in the following musings: “I read Shakespeare,” Angelou says, speaking of herself at a very young age, about 12 years old. “I memorised 50 sonnets or something.
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