The Elephant in the Room
Event Information
- Date
- 25-25 Aug
- Time
- 17:10
- Event type
- Theatre
- Company name
- PolyXo
- Event Warnings
- Contains disturbing themes, scenes of a sexual and violent nature, distressing audio-visual content
The Elephant in the Room
A new play. Performed by Faith Abongo.Love in the twenty-first century
is an eclectic ideology and culmination of dreamy, programmed
constructs. A concocted, conditional fairy-tale embedded deeply in the
phenomena of current social complexities. Based on externalised fantasy,
we idealise what and who our partners should be. The love they should
provide. The expectations of what our unions should yield. Largely,
contemporary love is based on hazy perspectives that doesn’t reflect
truth: it is an elusive perceived experience that deletes the intricate
dynamics which comprise realistic human experience and exchange. When
the curtains drop, the illusions become a bitter unpalatable truth.
Written,
Created and Performed by | Faith Martin Abongo
Directed and Produced
by | Faith Martin Abongo
Cast in order of appearance | Faith Martin
Abongo & Temisanren Uwawah
Set, Costume and Lighting Design by |
Faith Martin Abongo
Sound Design by | Christine Atieno and Faith
Martin Abongo
Intimacy coordinator | Christine Atieno
Thanks to |
Christine Atieno, Africanus World