Staff writer THE Baxter’s Zabalaza Season of the Best, Masambeni! will showcase four winning productions in the Golden Arrow Studio next month.
Selected from the main festival held earlier this year for their powerful themes, writing, performances, directing and overall presentation, they are Heads or Tail(s)?, Thank you for your Service, Blood on the Road and Ganga Nyoko! Inzima Nyoko!
They are performed in Xhosa, Afrikaans, English and a combination of the languages, and vital issues tackled include identity, self-expression, memory, childhood trauma, forgotten war veterans and gender.
Heads or Tail(s)?, performed in Afrikaans and English, delves into the life of a family torn by a secret harboured by the mother. Her three adolescent children are battling to get the truth out of her. The twins Julia and Julian…