FringeNYC: Ndebele Funeral – Location, Tickets, Reviews
A Maxamoo recommendation
Set in shack near Soweto, South Africa, this searing production examines two lives cut down in their prime by disease and poverty. It also questions the well-intentioned but failing attempts by government to address modern social concerns. While these are lofty issues, the performances are personal, intimate, and focused. The production incorporates original music, beautifully sung by the cast, from Swaziland-based musicians Spirits Indigenous and lively, staccato gumboot dancing. The play, although overall heavy in tone, is scattered with light, genuinely humorous moments. We recommend this play as a solid production with gorgeous performances that will make you think.
Zoey Martinson, playwright and star of Ndebele Funeral, sat down with Maxamoo to talk about the play, workshopping it in South Africa, and wanting to be a dummy, ahem, an actor when she grows up. Watch the video interview.
UPDATE
August 26, 2012
Ndebele Funeral won a FringeNYC 2013 Excellence Award for Overall Play.
LOCATION
Teatro Circulo
64 East 4th Street, New York City
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RUNNING TIME
80 minutes, no intermission
TICKETS
$15 in advance, $18 at the door (click here for tickets)
DATES
FringeNYC 2013
Thursday, 9/19 at 8PM
Friday 9/20 at 7 PM
Sunday 9/22 at 3PM
Friday 9/27 at 8PM
Sunday 9/29 at 3PM
FringeNYC 2013
Sunday 8/11, 8:45pm
Friday 8/16, 5:30pm
Sunday 8/18, 4pm
Friday 8/23, 7pm
Sunday 8/25, 2pm
REVIEWS
NYTheatre
This is a heartbreaking yet beautiful story.
Theatermania
Ndebele Funeral is socially relevant theater, told with maximum efficiency.
Theatre Is Easy
This unequivocal gem from Zoey Martinson is a testament to percussion; a devised announcement that the heart’s beat is the greatest rhythm we possess or encounter.
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Written by Zoey Martinson
Directed by Awoye Timpo