Ubu and the Truth Commission

اوبو و کمیسیون حقیقت

Author: William Kentridge · Handspring Puppet Company / Jane Taylor · 1997

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According to Wikipedia, Pa Ubu is often away from home and Ma Ubu suspects a mistress, but he is an agent of a state death squad and the smell on him is of blood and dynamite. After apartheid ends, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is set up and offers amnesty to those who give full and truthful testimony; Ubu, suspecting a trick, wavers between hiding and confessing. According to Mark Fisher in the Guardian, he feeds his documents, tapes and instruments of torture to a paper-shredding crocodile, while real testimonies of victims are heard through puppets and Kentridge's animated drawings. The piece draws on Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi and on the actual hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

به نوشتهٔ ویکی‌پدیا، پا اوبو مدام از خانه غیبت دارد و ما اوبو گمان می‌کند معشوقه‌ای دارد، اما او مأمور جوخهٔ مرگ دولتی است و بوی تنش بوی خون و دینامیت است. پس از پایان آپارتاید، کمیسیون حقیقت و آشتی برپا می‌شود و به جنایتکارانی که کامل و راست اعتراف کنند عفو می‌دهد؛ اوبو که آن را دام می‌پندارد، میان پنهان‌کاری و اعتراف دودل است. به گزارش مارک فیشر در گاردین، او اسناد، نوارها و ابزار شکنجه را به تمساحی کاغذخردکن می‌خوراند، در حالی که شهادت‌های واقعی قربانیان، با عروسک‌ها و نقاشی‌های متحرک کنتریج، روی صحنه شنیده می‌شود. نمایش از «اوبو شاه» آلفرد ژاری و از جلسات واقعی کمیسیون حقیقت و آشتی آفریقای جنوبی ساخته شده است.

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تماشا · Full feature of the production, directed and animated by William Kentridge, puppets by Adrian Kohler, with Dawid Minnaar, Busi Zokufa, Basil Jones, Adrian Kohler and Louis Seboko, official Handspring Puppet Company channel ▶ Listen at the source ↗

تریلر · Trailer for the run at La Villette, Paris, 24 November to 12 December 2015, official La Villette channel ▶ Listen at the source ↗

اجرا · {GB} William Kentridge · Dawid Minnaar, Busi Zokufa; puppeteers Gabriel Marchand, Mongi Mthombeni, Mandiseli Maseti · Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival · 2014 · festival's official trailer ▶ Listen at the source ↗

نقد · Mark Fisher · The Guardian, 29 August 2014 · mixed ▶ Listen at the source ↗

نقد · Vera Liber · British Theatre Guide, Edinburgh 2014 · admiring ▶ Listen at the source ↗

نقد · Andrzej Lukowski · Time Out London, October 2015 · critical ▶ Listen at the source ↗

These performances are variants of the piece and may differ from the score on this card.

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Author
William Kentridge · Handspring Puppet Company / Jane Taylor
Year
1997
Language
English, with testimony in South African
Class
New Directions in Performance
Type
Theater
Source
Ganjineh

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