“The Promise”
A live Theatre stage show -adapted from the best-selling, Booker Prize-winning novel -by Damon Galgut
Directed by: Sylvaine Strike, Written by: Damon Galgut & Sylvaine Strike, Produced by: Club Dezza Productions and The Market Theatre, Lighting Design: Josh Lindberg, Designed by: Josh Lindberg, Musical Direction: Charl-Johan Lingenfelder.
Starring: Daniel Geddes
winner:
Naledi Theatre Award & Fleur du Cap Theatre Award
-Best Set Design, Best Sound Design
This ground-breaking theatrical adaptation of the 2021 Booker
Prize-winning novel sees Damon Galgut and Sylvaine Strike collaborate
with a stellar cast and creative team to bring you the world premiere of
THE PROMISE – ON STAGE.
Club Dezza Productions and The Market Theatre are proud to present
THE PROMISE – ON STAGE this spring at The Star Theatre at the
Homecoming Centre in Cape Town, followed by a run on the John Kani
stage at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg.
The Promise is a menacing portrait of the Swart family – “a typical bunch of
white South Africans” – attempting to hold the family unit together through
the violent lurches of recent histories. Set on a small farm just outside
Pretoria, the Swarts have promised to give a small piece of land with a tiny
house on it to Salome, the black woman who has worked for them her whole
life. The property is worthless, but still, they refuse to give it up. One by one,
members of the family die, and while the world and contemporary landscape
around them change, they are determined to remain the same. Only two
siblings will eventually be left, facing each other over a great divide: Anton,
the tormented older brother, and Amor, his strange younger sister. A journey
spanning four decades, this work is an exploration of our lived realities and a
playful excavation of the essence of the human condition.
