Phillip Rademeyer’s Huishou – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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WOMEN in love: Dirkie (Nadia Valvekens) and Hester (Cintaine Schutte). Photograph by Leslie van Wyk.

VERY, VERY RARELY may a play cross your awareness that is so perfect in all its criss-crossing of parts and references, of loss and love and birth and possibility, that you feel completely absorbed in the characters’ lives. And you hold on to each unfolding dialogic second because it is crafted with such wisdom and balance and performed with such empathetic candidness. Its perfection has as much to do with structure and narrative, and with character realisation as with the work’s inner architecture. You will weep real tears within the first ten minutes of this play as you sit on the outside looking in at the messy complexity of a relationship that could be yours. This is Phillip Rademeyer’s Huishou, the play that wowed the Aardklop festival in 2018.

Reworked for radio by Eben Cruywagen, Huishou is about Dirkie (Nadia Valvekens) and her wife Hester (Cintaine Schutte)….

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