Season 7 of the Centre for the Less Good Idea is co-curated by artist William Kentridge and multi-award-winning theatre-maker and director, Phala Ookeditse Phala. As with all seasons the emphasis is on finding new ways of thinking through the production of non-conformative works rather than creating conventional 90-minute pieces of theatre or static exhibitions. The central theme for this season is 'what of text?' with performances, films and installations created by sixty participants that are based around texts by writers including Joseph Conrad, Ben Okri, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Antje Krog, Ferdinand Oyono and Franz Kafka.
In light of South Africa's 21-day lockdown due to the global Coronavirus pandemic, The Centre for the Less Good Idea has gone online with new performances premiering every evening on Facebook at 20:00 from April 1 to 7.
Each performance, which includes an introduction by the curators, is then shared on Vimeo in high-resolution, so there's no need to worry if you might have missed the premiere. You can always watch it online afterwards.
Programme 2 - premiere Thursday April 2 at 20:00 (35mins)
Odradek Costuming, projection, and live music and performance are used to tell the tale of the strange, lingering creature in Franz Kafka’s short story, The Cares of a Family Man, as performed by Ameera Patel and Frances Slabolepszy.Mayakovsky: The Tragedy A pared-down interpretation of the self-titled avant-garde verse drama by the Soviet playwright, poet, and actor Vladimir Mayakovsky. Conceptualised and directed by William Kentridge and performed by Katlego Letsholonyana.
Spactral A contemporary physical performance that further puzzles out time, language, and the dramatic form of the Shakespearean tragedy with text from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
As with all seasons the emphasis is on finding new ways of thinking through the production of non-conformative works rather than creating conventional 90-minute pieces of theatre or static exhibitions.
