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The Visitors

Von Constanza Macras

With The Visitors Constanza Macras continues a collaboration between Dorkypark and many of the young South African cast members of her successful show Hillbrowfication in 2018. The cast includes includes as well new collaborators from the Windybrow Arts Centre.

Their new production dives into the strange world of Slasher movies, a sub-genre of horror cinema with its own set of narrative codes and aesthetic style. In these movies, teenagers are threatened and killed in numbers, while parents and other adult figures are absent or unavailable to help them in any way. The youngsters must always fight the monsters on their own. The killers may seem like faceless agents of a violence that comes out of nowhere, but they are often the result of the horrors of the past. “The past will come back to haunt you ” says an adagio of the slasher genre.

In The Visitors, these themes are re-signified by the South African context: the absence of the parents for instance, acquires very specific connotations in the aftermath of a state orchestrated destruction of family structures during  Apartheid. Moreover, the typical slasher “hunt” becomes a trope for local and global issues, such as the capitalist negotiation of bodies and spaces: whose bodies are allowed to occupy which spaces and whose are chased away, evicted or deported. Whose bodies are allowed to circulate and whose are condemned to remain where they are (by being denied visas for example). The “horror” can also be found creeping up in everyday situations, like dealing with bureaucracy and corruption.

But through non-linear narratives and humorous associations, the youthful protagonists will struggle to get out of the grip of old monsters. They will attempt to move away from the relentless return of the past into a more “entangled” time made out of other pasts, presents and futures, where it is possible to churn up spaces for thinking and hoping.

A co-production of Constanza Macras I Dorky Park, The Windybrow Arts Centre and Market Theatre, Ruhrtriennale and Kampnagel. Supported by the International Co-Production Fund of the Goethe-Institut and by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

With
Alexandra Bódi, Emil Bordás, Temosho Evginea Dolo, Tshepang Josias Lebelo, Mncedesi Mlungisi Lloyd Pududu, Brandon Magengelele, Vusimuzi T. Magoro, Bongani Innocent Mangena, Sandiso (Zulu) Mbatha, Amahle Mene, Thulani Lord Mgidi, Shantel Ayanda Mnguni, Nkalala Jackson Mogotlane, Mongezi Mahlobo, Mongezi Mahlobo, Privilege Siyabonga Ndhlovu, Michelle Owami Ndlovu, Thando Ndlovu, Nontobeko Portia Ngubane, Miki Shoji, John Mbuso Sithole, Amahle Mene, Amahle Mene
choreographie-regie
Constanza Macras
Dramaturgy
Tamara Saphir
kostuemdesign
Roman Handt
Music
Spoek Mathambo
originale-chorlieder
Nhlanhla Mahlangu
originalsongs-mr.-bribes-und-goldilock
Nkalala Jackson Mogotlane, Brandon Mangengelele
Stage Design
Noluthando Lobese
kostuem--und-buehnenbild-mitarbeit
Marcus Barros Cardoso
kuenstlerische-und-technische-mitarbeit-266
Simon Lesemann
technische-leitung-lichtdesign
Sergio Pessanha
sounddesign
Stephan Wöhrmann
tour-management
Nompilo Vinolia Hadebe
companymanagement
Jimena Soria
Production Management
Alisa Aleshchenko
Production
Vicky Kouvaraki
assistenz-der-produktion
Diego Villalobos, Philipp Opara
produktion-des-teams-in-suedafrika
Gerard Bester, Zintle Radebe, Linda Michael Mkhwanaz, Tsepho Matala
internationale-distribution
Creative Agency for Performing Arts Plan B
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