#WomensMonth: Three Women breaks the silence through art
The play tackles women’s distinct experiences of vulnerability, exposure, and community within social movements.
PAVING the way for Women’s Month this August, the International Labour, Research and Information Group (ILRIG) is partnering with international theatre makers and artists from the Market Theatre Laboratory to bring stories of women activists to community stages across South Africa.
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Three Women (Break the Silence), takes place at the Durban’s Bat Centre on Saturday, 10 August.
The play tackles women’s distinct experiences of vulnerability, exposure, and community within social movements. “Break the silence,” is a call protesting gender-based violence in South Africa and across the world.
The play tells the stories of members of Remmoho (a women’s group established within Johannesburg’s Anti-Privatisation Forum – APF – which existed from 1999-2011). A work of documentary and verbatim theatre, Three Women takes its shape from freedom songs, field notes, and interviews conducted by Omotayo Jolaosho, a cultural anthropologist who worked with the APF in 2009 and 2010.
In collaboration with Jamaican-born director Vernice Miller, artists of Market Theatre Lab make up the play’s very vocal ensemble.
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