{"id":3484,"date":"2019-07-03T21:42:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2020-03-30T22:26:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T21:26:31","slug":"quickies-warona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=3484","title":{"rendered":"Quickies: Warona"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3485\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3485\" src=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Warona.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Warona.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Warona-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Warona-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Asanda Rhilityana, Warona, and Siphokazi Mpofu (left to right)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is why we love the fringe. Singing to give you goosebumps, enviable ensemble connectivity, and puppets in the style of Handspring. Well, that&#8217;s because the Ukwanda Puppets and Designs Collective was founded by several former members of the Handspring Puppet Company. To whoever sculpted the dog puppets in <em>Warona<\/em>, we thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there were a couple rough edges in the performance. Opening show growing pains perhaps. But like the chunks of (prop) meat at the butchers, this just enhances the rawness of the story they&#8217;re telling. Violence, being abandoned by the government, marginalised by the police, ignored by the privileged&#8230; a story of desperate vigilantism to rid their forgotten community of drug addiction. None of this is a shiny affair.<\/p>\n<p>Although schoolgirl Warona\u2019s story starts with dreams and hopes, this work about the streets of a fictional informal settlement, KwaNjandini, has no happy ending. You&#8217;ll find no glimmer of a tidy resolution here. No &#8220;see things aren&#8217;t that bad, she made it out, there&#8217;s hope&#8221;. Niks. It&#8217;s real and harsh and it&#8217;s got grit.<\/p>\n<p>The next show is on 04 July at 16.30. Details &amp; bookings: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalartsfestival.co.za\/events\/warona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukwanda company won a Standard Bank Ovation Encore Award back in 2015, and <em>Warona<\/em> is directed by Thando Doni whose work we\u2019ve been impressed by before (<a href=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/ubuze-bam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why we love the fringe. Singing to give you goosebumps, enviable ensemble connectivity, and puppets in the style of Handspring. Well, that&#8217;s because the Ukwanda Puppets and Designs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=3484\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}