An experiment in visual theatre
Read Jon's blog post about the production.
Twofold, a collaboration between Yawazzi and Jason Potgieter, is a visual theatre experience inspired by the work of Antonin Artaud.
This experiment has Potgieter working the night shift at a local laundry. Exploring themes of perception, the nature of reality, and psychosis, Twofold puts him on a journey into the liminal space that exists between life and art. By means of mysterious images, projections, sounds, objects, Potgieter and the audience become conspirators in an Artaudian invocation of the senses.
Twofold is the second of such collaborations between Yawazzi and Jason Potgieter and is part of a series of experiments that seek to engage with the theoretical works of a number of iconic theatre practitioners. The first work, Beginning with the White Sheet, was staged in October 2009, and formed part of the International Festival celebrating the works of Howard Barker.
Yawazzi is run by Sanjin Muftić and Jon Keevy, who are underground theatremakers in Cape Town, South Africa. They have staged productions in a laundry, conceptualized Hamlet with 5 Hamlets, sang along with Godfrey Johnson and designed multimedia for various productions. Jason Potgieter is an actor and puppeteer who is also a member of the UNIMA SA creative team and is the curator of the highly innovative IQONGA platform at the Out the Box Festival. All three were responsible for the critically acclaimed multimedia production The Life and Work of Petrovic Petar (2007).