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ISBN | 9781776142774 |
Format | PaperBack |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Bib. Info | xxxvi, 48p. |
Product Weight | 150 gms. |
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What Remains is a fusion of text, dance and movement to tell a story about the unexpected uncovering of a slave burial ground in Cape Town, the archaeological dig that follows and a city haunted by the memory of slavery. When the bones emerge from the ground, everyone in the city - slave descendants, archaeologists, citizens, property developers - is forced to reckon with a history sometimes remembered, sometimes forgotten. Loosely based on the events at Prestwich Place, What Remains is a path between memory and magic, the uncanny and the known, waking and dreaming. Four figures - The Archaeologist, The Healer, The Dancer and The Student - move between bones and books, archives and madness, paintings and protest, as they struggle to reconcile the past with the now.