{"id":230007,"date":"2022-06-29T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T07:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=117671"},"modified":"2022-06-29T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T07:46:17","slug":"the-drowning-eyes-theatre-returns-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-drowning-eyes-theatre-returns-to-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drowning Eyes \u2013 theatre returns to normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1 \">\n<aside id=\"republication_tracker_tool-2\" class=\"republication_tracker_tool clearfix\">\n<h5 class=\"adtitle\">Republish for Free<\/h5>\n<div class=\"license\">\n<p><button name=\"Republish This Story\" id=\"cc-btn\" class=\"republication-tracker-tool-button\">Republish This Story<\/button><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"license\" rel=\"noreferrer license noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/the-drowning-eyes-theatre-returns-to-normal.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/the-drowning-eyes-theatre-returns-to-normal.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"message\">\n<p>Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>South African theatre company Kwasha is proud to interpret The Drowning Eye, a play by the revolutionary thinker, Frantz Fanon. The play goes live on 30 June on the main programme of the National Arts Festival in Makhanda (formerly known as Grahamstown).<\/p>\n<p>Fanon, whose writings have influenced liberation movements across the world, wrote this text as a 24-year-old student, in 1949. Part love poem, part surrealist narrative, and part philosophical treatise, the play reads as a testimony to the power and possibilities of love as an act of resistance. The Drowning Eye is performed as part of an exhibition, Revolutionary Love, which seeks to explore the role of historical loves within revolutionary movements. Both works are made possible by the support of the National Arts Festival, the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), and funding from Mazars and Bollor\u00e9 Logistics, with additional research supported by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture &amp; Society, University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastien de Place, Director of Business Development and Marketing in South Africa as well as Partner at Mazars Group level, says the firm supports the creative economy as being particularly important in assisting young South African artists. More than any other component of the creative arts, the performing arts have been devastated by the Covid-19 ban on in-person events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to showcase this play after Covid. In this contemporary staging, we explore the edge between love, shadow, and violence, asking how to reimagine Fanon\u2019s writing for a generation of South Africans grappling with decoloniality, identity politics and gender-based violence,\u201d explains co-producer and director Tamara Guhrs. She and Stacy Hardy join forces with four talented actors from Kwasha, the Market Theatre Lab and Windybrow Arts Centre, to present this work, at a time when Fanon\u2019s writing has new relevance for a generation of young South Africans questioning the limits and possibilities of revolution today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that people don\u2019t always realise when they see the eventual production on stage, is that behind the glamour of the stage exists a whole supply and a creative and economic ecosystem. Therefore, support such as this for a theatre production has a ripple effect: jobs are created at a time when the performing arts industry has been very badly hit by Covid. There\u2019s an invisible economic and social impact that happens when a corporate sponsor comes on board with a project like this,\u201d says Guhrs.<\/p>\n<p>The cultural and creative industries (CCIs) were identified as one of seven sectors for prioritisation by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) in a 2019 presentation to Cabinet on South Africa\u2019s Re-imagined Industrial Strategy. It pointed to the potential the CCIs have for employment creation, skills development, promoting social cohesion, raising the country\u2019s profile abroad and supporting the domestic tourism industry. Government aims to address the challenges and constraints that need to be overcome to allow the sector to reach its full potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe creative arts are an often-neglected component of education. People talk about the importance of the STEM subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, but it should really be STEAM with Arts included. Art encourages the soft skills so necessary in business today \u2013 collaboration, problem solving, empathy, and kids learning to communicate. A sponsorship relationship like this one is exciting because theatre and business have much to learn from each other,\u201d concludes Guhrs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mypr.co.za\/contact\/featured\/\">CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"post-views-icon dashicons dashicons-chart-bar\"><\/span> <span class=\"post-views-label\">Press Release Views:<\/span> <span class=\"post-views-count\">146<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-pagination pagination\">Pages: <span class=\"post-page-numbers current\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>1<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/the-drowning-eyes-theatre-returns-to-normal\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>2<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\">Source: MyPR.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republish for Free Republish This Story Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. 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