Brothers in Blood stage-reading at Baxter Theatre
On Friday Backchat spoke to Henrich Reisenhofer, director of Brothers in Blood, now playing at the Baxter Theatre. The Baxter Theatre Centre's popular PlayGround series starts its South African season this Sunday, 16 September, with a new work, Brothers in Blood, by celebrated playwright Mike van Graan in the Baxter Sanlam Studio at 4pm.
Tackling one of the most contentious themes of the time - relations between Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities, Brothers in Blood is a powerful drama set in Cape Town in the late 1990s, a time of great division along religious lines in the city. This play takes place five days after the sixth anniversary of 9/11. While set locally, the play resonates with the global themes of racial and religious prejudice, intolerance the growing need for respect for cultural diversity in a post-9/11 world.
The story is about Brian Cohen, a doctor who works on the Cape Flats, the school principal, Abubaker Abrahams and his daughter Leila, Fadiel Suleiman, a refugee from internecine religious violence in Somalia and Rev Fredericks, the pastor of a church in a poor community collide in a world premised on ignorance and stereotypes about "the other". In the tradition of his previous dramas like Green Man Flashing and Some Mothers' Sons, Van Graan's Brothers in Blood intends to challenge audiences to feel, to think and to debate the themes long after they have seen the play.
For more information contact Fahiem Stenllenboom 021 680 3971 or e-mail: fahiem.stellenboom@uct.ac.za
We then spoke to Bernie Rosse from LifeLine/Childline Western Cape.
LifeLine/Childline Western Cape is proud to be involved in a youth development project, currently being piloted at the Forest Heights High School in Eersteriver.
Using cricket as the medium, they are working in partnership with the Western Province Cricket Club and the Exercise Training Academy, with funding and support from UK Sport and the British Consulate General, to offer cricket training and life skills programmes to youth at risk.
For more details you can contact Bernie Rosse on 021 461 1113 or e-mail ruth@lifelinewc.org.za
Tackling one of the most contentious themes of the time - relations between Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities, Brothers in Blood is a powerful drama set in Cape Town in the late 1990s, a time of great division along religious lines in the city. This play takes place five days after the sixth anniversary of 9/11. While set locally, the play resonates with the global themes of racial and religious prejudice, intolerance the growing need for respect for cultural diversity in a post-9/11 world.
The story is about Brian Cohen, a doctor who works on the Cape Flats, the school principal, Abubaker Abrahams and his daughter Leila, Fadiel Suleiman, a refugee from internecine religious violence in Somalia and Rev Fredericks, the pastor of a church in a poor community collide in a world premised on ignorance and stereotypes about "the other". In the tradition of his previous dramas like Green Man Flashing and Some Mothers' Sons, Van Graan's Brothers in Blood intends to challenge audiences to feel, to think and to debate the themes long after they have seen the play.
For more information contact Fahiem Stenllenboom 021 680 3971 or e-mail: fahiem.stellenboom@uct.ac.za
We then spoke to Bernie Rosse from LifeLine/Childline Western Cape.
LifeLine/Childline Western Cape is proud to be involved in a youth development project, currently being piloted at the Forest Heights High School in Eersteriver.
Using cricket as the medium, they are working in partnership with the Western Province Cricket Club and the Exercise Training Academy, with funding and support from UK Sport and the British Consulate General, to offer cricket training and life skills programmes to youth at risk.
For more details you can contact Bernie Rosse on 021 461 1113 or e-mail ruth@lifelinewc.org.za
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