When the statue of Cecil John Rhodes was dismantled at the University of Cape Town seven postgraduates wrote this insightful story.
THE FALL – UK Premiere This production is a vital and frank collaborative piece of workshop theatre devised by the cast that took South Africa by storm when it premiered. Seven University of Cape Town drama graduates share their experiences during the #RhodesMustFall and subsequent student demonstrations in 2015 and 2016.The #RhodesMustFall protest was originally directed against a statue commemorating Cecil Rhodes, situated at the foot of the University’s famous Jameson Steps. A month later, following a UCT Council vote the previous night, the statue was removed. The campaign for the statue's removal led to a wider movement to decolonise education across South Africa, garnering global attention.
Race, class, gender, sexism, colonialism, and ideologies of patriarchy – core to global conversations and interventions today - are tackled head-on, seeking to unpack discrimination in all its forms. The play does not offer solutions to the questions raised by the movements which inspired it but aims to create and nurture dialogue on intersectional and institutionalised discrimination against the marginalised. The mass student demonstrations provoked worldwide discourse and action and served as a major clarion call to a great number of people of colour at UCT as well as other tertiary institutions all over the country. The Fall adds its voice to the national and worldwide debate and youth-led revolutions against injustices, inequality in education, cultural representation and many other contemporary conflicts.
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