THEATRE REVIEW: The Red On The Rainbow
The Red On The Rainbow stage production written and directed by Monageng Vice Motshabi at the Market Theatre’s Mannie Manim theatre welcomes you with an incidental jazzy sound. The arrangement of the seating is Thrust Stage, where the seating is fashioned in such that the audience sit on three sides, with the fourth becoming more art of the stage. The set design culminates five plinths flanked by empty 9 liters empty buckets red in color, dimly lit. Cast members on stage. Picture by Ihsaan Haffegee. Hlomohang Mothetho’s lighting creates a sense of urgency to listen to the story whilst their costumes by Natalie Paneng takes you back in time - to an ancient African men of letters, the griots of Timbuktu in Mali centuries ago. Red on The Rainbow is a powerful piece that reflects on how the absence of political will and unpatriotic civil servanthood can taint citizen’s faith in government and nudges the lives of community members into danger, the very people who should be protected b