DCoriolanus

UP Drama Department will be presenting the devised work of William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, called DCoriolanus. This work is a site specific interrogation of Shakespearean text using the position and call for decolonization as its starting point. Dr. Myer Taub, senior lecturer in the drama department has devised this work along with approximately forty students, from both its undergraduate and post graduate cohorts.

The work takes on ideas about expansion, protest, loss, body politic, technology, human, anticipatory consciousness and the alternative framework in order to to assist in the de-colonial turn of classical text from the western canon, along with also applying ideas of critical distance, action, absence into production concept.

The performance of DCoriolanus runs for approximately 60 minutes with an interval. It runs from 28^th March - 1 April at 19hoo at the Masker Campus. It will also have two matinees, March 29 at 15hoo and 1 April at 15hoo. A panel discussion responding to the performance will follow on the Matinee on March 29 at 16hoo in the theatre. Speakers include Professor Chris Thurman, from Department of English Literature at the University of Witwatersrand and Marguerite de Waal from the English Department at the University of Pretoria.

Tickets are R45 for adults, R35 for children and students and R30 for block bookings for more than twenty persons.

Payment by card only.

For more information, please contact ms Immogen Visser at 012 420 2558.