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The tale of interminable and indispensable human idiocy staged at the Market Theatre

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You Fool How Can The Sky Fly, Pic Credit: Supplied Soft music is playing in the background, the platform on which this play is being delivered is a thrust theatre stage known by its arrangement which consists of being surrounded by audience on the three sides, antiquated brown sofa is displayed lazily, with cushions grazing unassertive on it and a pair of black shoes graced the floor. The open stage allows for chairs to be planted erratically here and there. At the brims of the stage, there are books, installation of old books made with the untold juxtaposition of what the play will unfold. Slight above the stage, set and costume designers; Karabo Mtshali, Nthabiseng Mokone and Nthabiseng Malaka must have had fun in designing the set because there is a visual sound of chaos in the arrangement of chairs and how the screen made of a bed sheet cover is hanging onto the fence, as if the parliamentarians were on some beef or the committee on certain portfolio just finished roasting t