Gerard Bester is the Creative Director of the Hillbrow Theatre Project, where he works to inspire inner-city children and youth to engage with the world in new and exciting ways. His practise explores the post-modern, anti-hero, and naïve clown.

Bester has worked with The Centre for the Less Good Idea since Season 2 where he both directed an iteration of Nhlanhla Mahlangu’s seminal work ‘Chant’ and was associate director alongside Mahlangu for ‘Enyangeni’, a piece which travelled to The Holland Festival in 2019 with other key works made at The Centre.

Here, Bester shares an early Long Minute reflection that explores themes of yearning and dreaming amongst other things.

Concept, Video & Narration | Gerard Bester
Curator of The Long Minute | Bronwyn Lace