The Book of Shade invites you to walk along the paths of two women, many women, maybe even every woman...
Footprints varying in size and shape.
Their journeys parallel and they intersect.
No plot.
Just a constant exchange of roles, unfolding situations of passion, connection, desperation, loneliness, surveillance and love.
A relationship between two characters
framed in rituals that reveal different dimensions of their realities.
Shades, shadows in lighting
Shades, shadows and lighting
Battles, sweet, humorous
Images that allow the audience to interpret through their own lens.
Leaving you to ask:
What it is?
Why it is?
Can it?
Does it?
Whose is it?
Conceptual triggers for movement
'holding on and letting go'
(Tshego Khutsoane)
Chapters of the story of these two caracters.
What is hidden, what is in shade?
Words of inspiration:
She doesn't want to face realities.
She hides her smile (or her voice?) with polite gestures... too much calculated to be honest.
She uses her sexuality to seduce and she can be very feminine.
Behind the curtains she evolves shades of brown and silver to contrast the blue in her mind.
She is strong and she runs fast in the fields.
She rather be in the dark, but sometimes, she shows the contours of her body in the light.
(Adriana Cunha)
Her eyes
They were like the presence and confidence of an Ikarus sunflower.
Long yellow petals with a dark centre.
They made those around her think life is a breeze...
Her eyes lied.
They distracted everyone from the dark centre that she was holding onto, just as the petals on the Ikarus grip onto the dark centre.
At night her eyes shape shift, drop into sadness like the flower curling itself into sleep.
Not as pretty after all.
The people were mislead by the beauty of her eyes.
(Bulelwa Ndaba)
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