Boklied

A number of somewhat outdated actors come together in a time of crisis in a closed space – an established, unused hall or perhaps just a prison. Away from the so-called “normality” outside, they reflect on love, life and death. Together, under a cloud of political reality in a time of inevitable change, the handful of poets act out a survival ritual in the tradition of the first Greek dramas, or “Goat Songs”. As in Aristophanes’ comedy The Birds , the lot negotiates a possible future under a new order, but rituals require blood, a sharp knife and a scapegoat… Goat Song is the poet Breyten Breytenbach’s sensational first drama. Poetic. Comprehensive. Screaming. Funny. Overwhelming.