Dead Yellow Sands
Dead Yellow Sands is a one person play written by Graham Weir (1959-2020).
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Completed as a series of sketches at the end of 2014, the one-person play has an actor tell the stories he has lived. According to Weir: "With this work, I really wanted to examine the essence of theatre. I wanted one of the characters to be lit so that he was like a floating head, another character (a blind man) to be lit so that the audience experienced the blindness he talked about, and so on."[1]
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Performance history in South Africa
2016: Opened at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in July, then went to the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio stage for a limited season from 31 October to 26 November. Performed by Weir, with direction by Bo Petersen and lighting design by Darron Araujo (from a lighting concept by Guy de Lancey). The play won the year's Fleur du Cap Awards for Best Performance in a One-Person Show and Best Lighting Design awards,
Sources
https://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=41103
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