William Kentridge's epic, five-years-in-the-making project opens in Johannesburg this month.
It has been five years since The Head and the Load, William Kentridge’s ambitious project about the experiences of Africans in World War 1, debuted on a 75m stage in the Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern. After much negotiation and planning, and the abandoning of a wild idea that it would be mounted in the concourse of Joburg’s Park Station, the production was scheduled to take place at the Joburg Theatre in April 2020. Covid-19 put paid to that...
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