Australopithecus

Written and Directed by Dr Kgafela oa Magogodi.

Australopithecus is a satirical play inspired by some professors. In a 1936 Pretoria kitchen, Professor Robert Broom is conducting a 'scientific' experiment: his wife Mary's soup on the left; a Korana skull in the middle; Black Damara feet on the right, Broom's two-pot system When Prime Minister Smuts arrives to recruit him for an expedition o select Bushmen as "living fossil" displays, Broom proposes simply extending the two-pot system to the exhibition subjects once they die in the city. Smuts is appalled but cannot satisfactorily explain why this differs from what Broom is already doing. It has fallen to Elisa Mokoena, the new housemaid, on her first day to mind all three pots. She has been watching. She is done Australopithecus exposes the dehumanizing logic of colonial anthropology and the way institutions simultaneously enable and disavow their own brutal practices With Sibusiso Mkhize as the musical director. Sinenhlanhla Mgeyi as the Movement Director and Sinenhlanhla Q Zwane as the stage designer - this production is one that you cannot miss.

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