Tswalo - A Sonic Experience | Billy Langa in collaboration with Mahlatsi Mokgonyana.

Tswalo - A Sonic Experience

by Billy Langa in collaboration with Mahlatsi Mokgonyana.

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	1.	Billy Langa - Tswalo Site A 23:36		buy track
	2.	Billy Langa - Tswalo Side B 19:09

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From the multi award-winning Theatreduo comes Tswalo, a celebration of the art of solo performance. Tswalo, re-published as a book and e-book by iwalewabooks in 2019, entwines poetry and physical storytelling to interrogate the rules that govern life on earth, such as power, creation, politics, connection, and intuition – the performer's expression of his ‘source’. It is the product of a creative collaboration: written and performed by Billy Langa with Direction, Dramaturgy and Design by Mahlatsi Mokgonyana in collaboration with award-winning composer and sound designer John Withers.

As an audio piece on a tape, it comes with a link to a digital copy on bandcamp. You can enjoy Tswalo in full analogue as well as digital audio sensation!

Tswalo is the winner of the Standard Bank Ovation Award, Cape Town Fringe Fresh Performer Award and Cape Town Fringe Fresh Creative Award for Directing, and has toured South Africa, Namibia, Germany and Scandinavia. Tswalo is a body of poems constructed to fragment a narrative that is carried in both physicality and voice. It is placed in a timeless space of existence, which explores the primary themes of being, chaos and beauty, blood and birth, love and war in the same frame.

Tswalo combines ritual, physical storytelling and heightened text to create new distinct theatrical language as a way of reconstructing and deconstructing the orthodox and the traditional chronology of telling stories. “This is what theatre should, and can be”, the critics of Weekend Special wrote.

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released October 16, 2022

© 2022 by iwalewabooks

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