In honor of Tony Award-winning playwright Athol Fugard's visit to UNC, StreetSigns presents ACTS OF WITNESS, two theatrical events in rotating rep, featuring Athol Fugard's BLOOD KNOT directed by Joseph Megel and POETIC PORTRAITS OF A REVOLUTION created by Kane Smego, Will McInerney, Mohammad Moussa and Sameer Abdel-khalek.
Athol Fugard's BLOOD KNOT is the story of two South African brothers whose lives are twisted by the madness of apartheid. The New York Times calls the play "a contemporary classic . . . . both a deeply human experience and a symbolic statement." The powerful allegorical story continues to resonate deeply in a world still unable to deal openly with issues of race and wracked by seismic shifts in response to social injustice from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. The cast features J. Alphonse Nicholson, highly-praised for his recent performance in Mike Wiley's THE PARCHMAN HOUR at PlayMakers, and Lucius Robinson, whose work locally has ranged from his adaptation of VERTIGO in which he played the Jimmy Stewart role to memorable performances on area stages from Manbites Dog to Cary's Koka Booth Amphitheatre, as the two brothers. Joseph Megel directs.Are you an avid theatergoer? We're looking for people like you to share your thoughts and insights with our readers. Team BroadwayWorld members get access to shows to review, conduct interviews with artists, and the opportunity to meet and network with fellow theatre lovers and arts workers.
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