• I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE, a play

I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE, a play

: Reznek (J.)

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62pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2019.

 

A play that draws loosely on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone to explore the inevitability of a young girl's journey into the unknown and the bonds that connect mothers and daughters to each other.

"In Reznek's vision, time turns daughter into mother and goddess into crone, each a new country, distant to each other then near again. The characters dream each other before they exist, imprison each other in their longing, escape each other and ache again to be close...a master work of drama." Gabeba Baderoon

Actress, director and teacher Jennie Reznek is a founder member of Magnet Theatre in Cape Town, where she runs most of the youth development and performance programme together with co-artistic directors Mark Fleishman and Mandla Mbothwe. She is the creator of the physical theatre pieces The show's not over til the fat lady sings and Every year every day I am walking.