Every Year Every Day I am Walking

ASSITEJ SOUTH AFRICA February 24, 2010

DATES:  24 Feb - 13 March, Tues. - Sat. 7.45 pm. 
Matinees 4 and 11 March 4.30 pm.
VENUE:  Oval House, Theatre Downstairs
ADDRESS:  52-54 Kennington Oval; London SE115SW
BOX OFFICE:  020 7582 7680
 
Brent Meersman (Mail and Guardian; 24 Dec. 09) voted Magnet Theatre's Jennie Reznek and Mark Fleishman as 'theatremakers in the vanguard'.  And Faniswa Yisa as a 'pick of the new divas'. 
 
"the play's great achievement is to make it impossible to ignore the millions of individual tragedies bound up in forced migration"
Chris Thurman - Weekender
  
Two sisters, Aggie and Ernestine, play together in their rural idyll and life couldn't be happier.  That is, until their lives are shatterd by violence.  Aggie and her mother are forced to flee their homeland.  They make their way to the promised land:  South Africa.
 
Two actresses trace the story of Aggie and her mother as they travel across Africa to an alien environment.  The production uses very little spoken dialogue, some in English, some in French.  The story is told through physical images and through the evocative musical text:  a drawing of the pastoral village is burnt by hooded militia; parts of shoes in the actors' hands trudge across sprinkled sand; and Cape Town's skyline is revealed in wire mesh. 
 
Featuring: Jennie Reznek and Faniswa Yisa.
Directed:  Mark Fleishman
Music:  Neo Muyanga