Rainbow Scars
Winner of a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in 2013 and nominated for six Naledi Theatre Awards last year, Rainbow Scars makes its return to Artscape before a tour of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom as part of the Afrovibes Festival.
Rainbow Scars, explores the complexities of contemporary South African relationships, layered with dollops of humour.
No under 14’s
Biko’s Quest
The production is an 80 minute piece based on the role played by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa Liberation struggle. The story is narrated and performed through various communication modes including song, dance, dialogues and multi-media, using the past to meet the present to shape the future.
Rainbow Scars
Featuring the combined talents of Kertrice Maitisa, Jennifer Steyn and Mbulelo Grootboom under the direction of multiple award-winning Lara Bye, Rainbow Scars employs the metaphor of an interracial family with a white mother and her adopted black daughter – and the estranged cousin of the daughter - to explore issues of identity, exclusion and privilege in the post-apartheid “rainbow nation”.
Biko’s Quest
The life and ideas of the young activist Steve Biko inspired many people and continue to do so in the contemporary society throughout the world. His ideas and writings on black consciousness empowered people with a new sense of self-worth, self-motivation and an attitude of activism.
The production seeks to take audiences on a journey of memory, discovery and action not only remembering Biko as a liberation icon who died but rather celebrating the life he lived, the giant in him, and the contribution he made where no one else dared to, given the conditions of the times. Its quest of memory also challenges the young people of today about the power they possess when they become constructively active in their schools and in the broader community.
Rainbow Scars - 18h30 Biko's Quest - 20h15
