PERFORMANCE DETAILS
JOHANNESBURG: THE MARKET THEATRE, Barney Simon
Thursday 06 September, 20h15
Friday 07 September, 20h15
Saturday 08 September, 20h15
Sunday 09 September, 15h15
MUSEUM OF LUNGS is a musical documentary performance that excavates archive material and mixes intimate confession with haunted histories to convey vulnerability as a core of strength, and illness as a site of resistance and transformation.
In contemporary South Africa, where tuberculosis is endemic, a writer tells her personal story of living with undiagnosed TB for years before receiving treatment. She asks questions about the precariousness of our individual and collective bodies, highlighting the colonial and systemic racial structures as well as the violence of our healthcare and political systems.
The writer Stacy Hardy, her puppet doppelganger and musicians and composers Neo Muyanga and Nancy Mounir collaborate with director Laila Soliman to create a multi-vocal performance of love, loneliness, fragility, and death, addressing the fundamentally impossible bravery of being alive and being human, today.
Text & performance: Stacy Hardy (Polokwane)
Composition & live music: Nancy Mounir (Alexandria), Neo Muyanga (Cape Town)
Direction: Laila Soliman (Cairo)
Scenography & costumes: Moira Gilliéron (Basel)
Puppet: Marius Kob (Basel)
Shadows: Bassem Yousry (Cairo)
Light design: Mirjam Berger (Bern)
Technical direction: Thomas Kohler (Basel), Mirjam Berger (Bern)
Production & touring: Franziska Schmidt, produktionsDOCK (Basel)
A co-production with FFT Düsseldorf, Kaaitheater Brussels, Kaserne Basel and HAU Berlin.
tour: Schlachthaus Theater Bern
Funded by Fachausschuss Tanz & Theater BS/BL, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Goethe-Institut South Africa
Tickets from webtickets, between R90-R150
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