Saturday Live show -Comfort Ye coming to Artscape
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Comfort Ye coming to Artscape
“Comfort Ye” is an engrossing new work of music theatre in which young people from a community near Cape Town tell their own stories. Music by Handel, Milliken, and the young singers combine with words to make a moving and uplifting work based on contemporary issues.
The world premiere performance of “Comfort Ye”, which has already received international invitations, takes place at Artscape’s Drama Theatre on 6 March, 2015 at 7pm, with further performances on 7 and 8 March at 3pm.
Featuring a strong cast of South African professional singers and actors, a baroque/ jazz chamber orchestra, and exceptional young singer/ actors from the choir of Bloekombos Secondary School, Kraaifontein, “Comfort Ye” is directed by an international team assembled by Umculo for this production. A year and a half in the making, “Comfort Ye” was born at writing workshops held in Kraaifontein in November/ December 2013. The stories told and the songs written by the young choir members became the basis for this new work.
German stage director and librettist Robert Lehmeier, Australian composer and educationalist Cathy Milliken, Vienna-based Swedish conductor Warwick Stengards and Johannesburg lighting designer Michael Maxwell join forces with writer/ mentor Fatima Dike, choir conductor Siyabulela Sulelo, and harpsichordist Erik Dippenaar to create a polished, intimate performance about the harsh challenges faced by Cape Town’s disadvantaged young people today. In a world of violence, abuse, crime and mistrust, where do we find hope? This dark story, full of ambiguity and shadow, finds its way to an optimistic conclusion.
Founded in 2010, Umculo is an international music organisation that supports lasting social change through music in South Africa. This production is supported by the Hilti Foundation and Business Arts South Africa.
“Comfort Ye” is an engrossing new work of music theatre in which young people from a community near Cape Town tell their own stories. Music by Handel, Milliken, and the young singers combine with words to make a moving and uplifting work based on contemporary issues.
The world premiere performance of “Comfort Ye”, which has already received international invitations, takes place at Artscape’s Drama Theatre on 6 March, 2015 at 7pm, with further performances on 7 and 8 March at 3pm.
Featuring a strong cast of South African professional singers and actors, a baroque/ jazz chamber orchestra, and exceptional young singer/ actors from the choir of Bloekombos Secondary School, Kraaifontein, “Comfort Ye” is directed by an international team assembled by Umculo for this production. A year and a half in the making, “Comfort Ye” was born at writing workshops held in Kraaifontein in November/ December 2013. The stories told and the songs written by the young choir members became the basis for this new work.
German stage director and librettist Robert Lehmeier, Australian composer and educationalist Cathy Milliken, Vienna-based Swedish conductor Warwick Stengards and Johannesburg lighting designer Michael Maxwell join forces with writer/ mentor Fatima Dike, choir conductor Siyabulela Sulelo, and harpsichordist Erik Dippenaar to create a polished, intimate performance about the harsh challenges faced by Cape Town’s disadvantaged young people today. In a world of violence, abuse, crime and mistrust, where do we find hope? This dark story, full of ambiguity and shadow, finds its way to an optimistic conclusion.
Founded in 2010, Umculo is an international music organisation that supports lasting social change through music in South Africa. This production is supported by the Hilti Foundation and Business Arts South Africa.