Khunum Productions: Women Playwrights International and University of Cape town, welcomes Food for the Gods

KHUNUM PRODUCTIONS

is currently at the beginning stages of recognizing itself as a platform for creative anthropology. Essentially we are storytellers. Be it through arts education, personal narrative, experimental theatre or grand scale spectacle, we are committed to the arts of enchantment. We explore questions of and celebrate the magic of the living soul animated through human experience. Khunum Productions aims to penetrate and transform the human heart with beauty based on the blueprint of creation.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Women Playwrights International and University of Cape town, welcomes Food for the Gods

The next Women Playwrights International Conference will be held in Cape Town South Africa, hosted by the University of Cape Town. The theme this year is "Without Words" and Food for the Gods was selected and invited as one of the plays to be presented.

Inspired by the killings of Black men at the hands of police and other institutions of authority, this work utilizes mixed-media and mask-puppetry to explore the process of dehumanization, positive and negative space, invisibility and well…the MAGICAL-less-ness of it all. A three-part expression of rage, indifference, and celestial knowings. Food for the Gods is an experiential triptych of sort, an audience immersive performance installation that takes place in three unique settings. It juxtaposes harsh reality with piercing beauty.

"Yes, there are subjects that are beyond words. While studying this issue of dehumanization in America, without knowing it, I found myself “beyond words.” There was only raw emotion. Within Food for the Gods, I attempted to captured that emotion through images, movement, transformative space, and sound. The characters do speak, however, this is not a play of dialog. Rather, it is a sensory experience of visceral expression documented in words. WPIC international will be held June 29th to July 2nd 2015.