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Credits:

Production: Handspring Puppet Company
Director: William Kentridge
Script: Jane Taylor
Puppet Director: Basil Jones
Animation: William Kentridge
Animation Assistants: Tau Qwelane, Suzie Gable
Choreography: Robyn Orlin
Assistant Director and Puppet Conception: Adrian Kohler
Soundtrack: Warrick Sony, Brendan Jury
Research on the Truth Commission and Reconciliation: Antjie Krog
Lightning Design: Wesley France
Sound Design: Wilbert Schubel
Film Editor: Catherine Meyburgh
Cast: Dawid Minnaar, Busi Zokufa, Gabriel Marchand, Mongi Mnthombeni, Mandiseli Maseti
Executive Producer: Basil Jones
Associated Director: Janni Younge
Executive Production Assistant and Company Manager: James Nilsen
Assistant Manager: Melanie Roberts
Company Director: Wesley France
Stage Manager: Jessica Mias
Sound Technician: Simon Mahoney
Producer: Handspring Puppet Company
Associated Producer: Quaternaire
Co-producers: Edinburgh International Festival (UK), The Taipei Arts Festival and Taipei Culture Foundation (Taiwan), Festival de Marseille _ danse et arts multiples (France), Onassis Cultural Centre (Greece), Cal Performances Berkeley (USA), BOZAR Brussels (Belgic).

Synopsis:

Ubu and the Truth Commission combines puppets, actors, music, documentary scenes and animation. The show is based on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s of South Africa’s interrogatories and on the play Ubu Roi (King Ubu) created in 1888 by the French playwright Alfred Jarry. In this production, Ubu is a police officer for whom torture, murder, sex and food are variations of a single coarse appetite.

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