African footprint

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

African Footprint is a South African musical based on poems by Don Mattera ; Richard Loring wrote his music . It tells of new beginnings, hope and a new beginning in South Africa .

The premiere of the musical took place on May 11, 2000 in the presence of the South African President Thabo Mbeki in the newly opened Globe Theater at the gates of the South African metropolis of Johannesburg . The group (with around 30 actors each) went on a world tour from the USA via Australia, China, Austria and Italy to Germany. In 2010 the musical will be guest in Canada.

The piece was written to encourage the young South African democracy in a disco in Johannesburg. The majority of the actors were deliberately brought from Soweto . Many of them had no previous training and no stage experience.

It is not an unusual sight for Europeans to see people of color and white on stage together. That this is by no means so self-evident in a country where apartheid was less than 10 years ago, the example of the actor Alfred Phakathi, whose mother was arrested just because she picked up the fallen wallet of a white woman and lightly hers Hand brushed - it was forbidden to touch whites.

Web links