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Jessie, Die Man en die Maan
Project Type
Theater
Date
2019
Performed At
Free State National Arts Festival, Bloemfontein, 2022
Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, 2023
Toyota US Woordfees, Stellenbosch, Woordfees, 2023
Cast & Crew
Written and Directed by Kanya Viljoen
With Carlo Daniels
Stage-Managed by Keandri van Wyk and Amber Fox-Martin
Development Support by Jakes Gerwel Foundation, Nationale Afrikaanse Teater Inisiatief (NATi), Suidoosterfees and UCT’S Centre for Dance, Theatre and Performance Studies
Press
Jessie, Die Man en die Maan tells the tale of a young man, AB, that loses both his wife, Jane, and their son, Jessie, to the ‘moon’.
What initially started as a big love between AB and Jane, turns into a marriage of pain and misuse, over the years. Specifically when Jane falls pregnant and develops Pelvic Girdle Syndrome, a condition that could lead to paralysation in extreme circumstances, within the pregnancy. The little boy, Jessie, is born on a full moon, an occurrence that AB’s father warns him about. Throughout Jane’s frustration with her paralysed body, anger and resentment festers within the relationship, leading to a night where the couple becomes physical with one another, with AB pushing Jane and accidently causing her death. It is within this moment that Jessie starts to unravel, searching for his mother within the moon, a place she often told him stories about. For years it becomes a struggle between a man, his son and the moon. A fight which AB eventually loses.
