Programme
11.00 am Bunraku – The puppet with there (3) puppeteers
Bunraku is based on the traditional Japanese puppet theater form founded in Osaka in 1684 whereby three puppeteers manipulate one puppet. The performance is fused with a mixture of contemporary African puppet theatre technique and music
Sahara is a Bunraku puppet manipulated by three puppeteers; he is a mute puppet male of gender and in the mid 60s in age.
The major objective of this performance is to entertain and educate on issues touching on the life of every individual on a daily basis on issues like corruption, poverty, hunger etc. The show starts when Safari is asleep on stage; he wakes up from sleep and narrates a story about long time ago
Performance style
Bunraku puppet is complete puppet performance manipulated by three puppeteers. This is a performance intending to capture a variety of styles of puppet in combination with light simulations and sound tracks. In the safari performance styles included are the Bunraku puppet itself, mask dance and shadow puppet
Duration: 30 minutes.
3.00 pm The Last Man Standing
The Last Man Standing Puppetry Performance is an out-of-the ordinary performance from the world of the dead and the living. It is a tale of a brave wildebeest called Mara and recounted by Bones (Mara’s Carcass) in the year 2070. A letter written by the Mask in 2010 is warning people of the pending danger caused by climate change years before the wildebeest were wiped away. Mara goes through the most trying moments in her life, ending up as the last carcass – (BONES). This is a story that will take the audience through the life cycle of a wildebeest, times of struggle, bravery, famine, life and death.
Technique:
Performance is a multi-disciplinary, multi – cultural performance from two worlds (dead and living) deviating from the conventional theatrical presentations, yet at the same time incorporating existing modern and traditional theatrical genres together with other art elements such as puppets, objects, figures, architecture, installation, dance and music.
Duration: 50 minutes
5.00 pm Atieno – Story of a young African girl
“Atieno” in Kenyan literature is symbolic of the girl who goes through a lot of suffering and tribulations more so due to society’s structures, attitudes and perceptions towards the Girl. Perhaps Atieno will represent he contemporary African girl who is at the crossroads between education, development, relationship marriage and career. Atieno is the story of a young Girl brought up by her grandmother who lives by the edge of the forest, they live normal lives continuing with their daily chores as an ordinary village family. Through deceit and trickery a young Man, Obi takes atieno away from her home into a strange land filled with evil monsters and creatures. Atieno goes through a lot of tribulations in this strange land. She finally manages to free herself and reach even greater heights through self talent search and ends up back to her grieving grandmother
Performance style
The play utilizes puppetry as its main discourse. Through fusion of different types of puppetry techniques that include, object theatre, contemporary masks, rod puppet spectacle and black theatre techniques. The performance is accompanied by poetry, traditional and contemporary music.
Duration: 40 minutes
Poetry by: Sonnia Gitome
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