Drama - Play
Witness
Ujamaa Productions
2010
Abstract
Witness, co-written by award-winning Tanzanian-Australian filmmaker Martin Mhando and WA actor and writer David Moody, explores the law of probability as it plays out in bitter human conflicts, retelling stories of torture and atrocities from Chile to Cambodia in a constantly morphing, fractured form. As the play progresses, the men perform a collage of vignettes in which the roles of white, black, male, female, jailer, prisoner, aggressor and victim are endlessly exchanged. At one point Moody dons a curly black wig to play a comical Colonel Gaddafi; elsewhere both men perform a disturbing Auschwitz cabaret scene as “Hymie and Abe,” complete with Marx Brothers nose-and-glasses
Details
- Title
- Witness
- Authors/Creators
- M. Mhando (Author/Creator)D. Moody (Author/Creator)S. Tampalini (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- Martin Mhando (Written By)David Moody (Written By)Martin Mhando (Actor)David Moody (Actor)Lesley-Anne Philips (Actor)Serge Tampalini (Director)
- Publication Details
- Ujamaa Productions
- Identifiers
- 991005543215107891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media, Communication and Culture; School of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Drama
- Additional Information
- Witness, first performed at The Blue Room Theatre, Perth 4-22 May 2010.
- Company Credits
- Ujamaa Production; Blue Room Theatre
- Resource Sub-type
- Play
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