The Red On The Rainbow

The Red on the Rainbow
Written by diartskonageng’s founder, the play has had successful seasons at the South African State Theatre and the Market Theatre. The play premiered at the Soweto Theatre for a short run and was also seen at the Northern Cape Theatre and the Jika Performing Arts College in  Botshabelo.
 
Primarily inspired by recent real life events in Coligny, the play follows the aftermath of the death of a young man on a maize farm at the hands of a farmer’s son and his friends. The play explores how time seems to remain frozen, picture-style, in an unending apartheid-ghost-dance. Faced with the death of her only son, a mother must decide whether to surrender to these unchanging rhythms of the baas’s kitaar and the zombie dance it demands or to mshoza-style, trample down the toy story heaven in an eternal scream for justice.