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JM Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K, adapted for the stage by Lara Foot, in collaboration with the Tony Award-winning Handspring Puppet Company comes to The Market Theatre.
Epic in scale, the multi-layered theatrical staging which combines puppetry, performance, film and evocative music, gives life to Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning novel and brings together some of South Africa’s most revered, multi-award-winning artists and creatives.
The hauntingly beautiful story follows Michael K, a simple man who embarks on a journey through South Africa, ravaged by civil war, to return his mother to die on the farm where she was born. He finds strength in his own humanity, his profound connection to the earth and his unique path which, as it unfolds, reveals to him his reason for living.
Since its debut the production has received high praise from leading arts critic in SA, Germany, China, Edinburgh, Ireland and the USA, where it just had its internationally acclaimed tour. It was named as the New York Times Critic’s Pick and the Playbill Pick, with several five-star reviews.