A box arrives in an empty space! What could be inside? Aha! Wool!

 

Pulling out the thread, the actors weave themselves and the children into the wondrous world of wool.

 

This playful performance explores what wool can do, what we can make from it, how we can play with it and how the shapes that it makes can stimulate the imagination.

 

 

Balls of wool, knitting needles, a huge tangle of yarns – the four performers try out different things and search for the meaning.

 

With a lot of self-irony and humour, they follow the material and develop their own rules. Failure is par for the course – just as much as the joy in pulling oneself back up, in never giving up and in trying out new things again and again.

Directed by: Nwabisa Plaaitjie

Designed by: Asiphe Lili

Cast:Beviol Swarts, Zizipho Quluba, Luthando Mvandaba, Emmanuel Nkosipendule

 

 

Magnet Theatre is an independent South African physical theatre company that has operated for the past 29 years regionally, nationally and internationally. Magnet Theatre was formed in 1987 to produce Jennie Reznek’s first one-person performance, Cheap Flights.

 

Our mission is to create an original repertoire of South African productions, inspirational performance events and effective educational processes that emphasise the primacy of the human body in the act of theatre. Through explorations of our historical, contemporary and stylistic contexts we dedicate ourselves to raising levels of resources and energising audiences and theatre practitioners in the community at large.