Zeno at 4am

Zeno at 4am is a shadow oratorio by William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company.

The original text

A precursor to the play Confessions of Zeno, it was created as a shadow oratorio which combines a range of media to depict Zeno during in the state between waking and sleeping and the dilemmas which swirl through his mind – about his wife and his mistress, whether his pleasures (smoking being one) will cause his death, his precarious business dealings and the death of his father whom he did not love enough when he was young.

Performance history in South Africa

2001: Directed by William Kentridge with Dawid Minnaar, Otto Maidi, Pumeza Matshikiza (tall), Lwazi Ncube (short). Performed in Brussels, Paris, Angoulême, Toulouse, Amiens, Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York.

Sources

https://www.handspringpuppet.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handspring_Puppet_Company

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_Conscience

https://www.handspringpuppet.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handspring_Puppet_Company

Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)

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