ASHES

57pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2015

A play about a young gay man, inspired by three brutal attacks on gay men in the Western and Northern Cape in 2014.

Philip Rademeyer was born in Johannesburg and lives in Cape Town. He c-founded the Cape Towm-based theatre collective, Rust Co-Operartive, with Penelope Youngleson in 2012. He is also the author of the play "The View", which won the Oscar Wilde Award for Best New Writing and Doric Wilson Intercultural Dialogue Award at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in 2013, and "Siembamba", which won a Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award at the 2014 National Arts Festival. "Ashes" won a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the 2015 National Arts Festival.