QUBULA – A DEEP RED CHANT!

Conceptualised & performed by | Nhlanhla Mahlangu & Catrin Dowd
Directed by | Gerard Bester
Music by | Nhlanhla Mahlangu & Catrin Dowd (double bass)

Qubula – A Deep Red Chant tells the tale of a character who has left home in pursuit of work, joy, and the idea of a better life in a city as brutal, industrial, and multifaceted as Johannesburg.

Collaborators Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Catrin Dowd employ vocal and physical storytelling, and the use of intuitive and experimental sound in order to convey the myriad tales of this complex character from their own points of view. Audiences traverse the city’s side streets, main-roads, office spaces, marketplaces, hospital theatres, and more, exploring the cruel contradictions that make up the city of Johannesburg in order to find resonance in the disarray.

Qubula – A Deep Red Chant is a performance exploring the journeys we embark on, and the things (or people) we lose through a life-long, bloody-minded search for the good life.

Cinematography and Editing by | Noah Cohen
Writing by | Dave Mann