With the University of Cape Town (UCT) remaining shut due to the potential of protest action on Monday‚ students were advised to catch a show about the Baxter…about protests.
The decision to stay closed was made‚ vice-chancellor Dr Max Price said‚ to allow “further time for engagement with key stakeholders‚ including the Student Representative Council and particularly the SRC candidates who are leading the protest actions on campus at present”.
That student body‚ meanwhile‚ on Sunday suggested that students go see a play which “doesn’t offer solutions but it hopes to raise dialogue” and which opened at the Baxter Theatre last week.
It tweeted via UCT SRC @UCT–SRC: “We would highly recommend that all students watch #TheFall‚ a play by uct alumni that is showing at the Baxter.”
The Fall is described as as “a collaborative piece of Workshop Theatre devised by eight dynamic recent graduates from UCT’s Drama Department and facilitated by Clare Stopford”.
“It is based on their experiences as people of colour during the #RhodesMustFall and subsequent movements‚” the theatre’s website says.
“The #RhodesMustFall Movement served as a major clarion call to a mass of people of colour (POC) at the University of Cape Town and tertiary institutions all over South Africa.
“The project started after their season of Barney Simon’s Black Dog/Inj’emnyama at the Baxter Flipside in 2015. The challenge of telling the story of students in the 1976 uprisings invited the idea of reflecting lives of people of colour in 2016 — as ourselves.
“The play doesn’t offer solutions but it hopes to raise dialogue — as it did in the workshop process — on intersectional‚ institutionalised discrimination against the marginalised majority.”
The Fall runs until October 29. – TMG Digital
UCT students urged to watch ‘The Fall’ during lull in protests
With the University of Cape Town (UCT) remaining shut due to the potential of protest action on Monday‚ students were advised to catch a show about the Baxter…about protests.
The decision to stay closed was made‚ vice-chancellor Dr Max Price said‚ to allow “further time for engagement with key stakeholders‚ including the Student Representative Council and particularly the SRC candidates who are leading the protest actions on campus at present”.
That student body‚ meanwhile‚ on Sunday suggested that students go see a play which “doesn’t offer solutions but it hopes to raise dialogue” and which opened at the Baxter Theatre last week.
It tweeted via UCT SRC @UCT–SRC: “We would highly recommend that all students watch #TheFall‚ a play by uct alumni that is showing at the Baxter.”
The Fall is described as as “a collaborative piece of Workshop Theatre devised by eight dynamic recent graduates from UCT’s Drama Department and facilitated by Clare Stopford”.
“It is based on their experiences as people of colour during the #RhodesMustFall and subsequent movements‚” the theatre’s website says.
“The #RhodesMustFall Movement served as a major clarion call to a mass of people of colour (POC) at the University of Cape Town and tertiary institutions all over South Africa.
“The project started after their season of Barney Simon’s Black Dog/Inj’emnyama at the Baxter Flipside in 2015. The challenge of telling the story of students in the 1976 uprisings invited the idea of reflecting lives of people of colour in 2016 — as ourselves.
“The play doesn’t offer solutions but it hopes to raise dialogue — as it did in the workshop process — on intersectional‚ institutionalised discrimination against the marginalised majority.”
The Fall runs until October 29. – TMG Digital
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