A Vrystaat Arts Festival Production, made possible by NATi

An attempt at a one-person play, or a struggling poem, based on, and with apologies to, Shakespeare’s Hamlet (also apologies to Jonker / De Villiers / Malherbe / Totius/ Opperman / Yeats). It is a tentative yet violent exploration of the emotional landscape of what it means to be a South African. With ancestors rooted in both Africa and Europe, the disillusionment of humanity and essential emotional suicide, the search for identity is portrayed through the extrapolation of the various characters in the original text, all speaking from the same mouth.