Written and performed by Ashley Dowds, Circle Song is a story about re-membering. Directed by Caroline Calburn.
Fresh off the National Arts Festival stage, where the production received an Ovation Award for excellence, Circle Song is a memory piece. Spoken from a narrator’s perspective across an arc of time, it is a re-imagined past of people who left the shores of Ireland and England to begin a life in South Africa. It rests though on a story prompted by a real life event: After a severe brain operation, my mother wakes to the world as a fifteen year old version of herself.
The play reimagines ancestral stories and the migrations that have shaped the family’s history, while addressing the larger questions of what it means to be human, to belong, and to navigate the shifting landscape of memory and time.
The production is also about holding space for the memory of those that shimmer somewhere in the radiance of your own presence, to provoke a memory trigger of your own, so that whatever is being suggested, whatever begins to inhabit the space is shaped by your own memory.
TICKETS VIA QUICKET: R100pp/ R80 students + pensioners
VENUE: & Kin, The Old Mushroom Farm, 11 Karkloof Road, Howick
'It is a work about longing and belonging and memory. Remembering everything about who it is we are." Kate Normington
"Circle Song is a theatrical amalgamation of art and autobiography, blurring the lines of reality and imagination, past and present. The layering of this performance and its flawless execution showcase the best of the craft." Cue
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