Freehold Theatre’s bold and urgent new play, hidden/current, is making its world premiere November 27-29 in Cape Town, South Africa. Featuring a trio of playwrights from Cape Town, Tehran, and Seattle, and an international cohort of actors, hidden/current addresses the global plague of gender-based violence. Director and Freehold co-founder Robin Lynn Smith puts it like this: “There is such an undercurrent—in so many cultures, across class and ethnicity—of this oppression; and the violence perpetrated against women that is often unacknowledged—met with silence. And our surreal realm is a water world, with the fierce spirits of young women who met unjust and violent deaths, who are back to bring these stories to us. The violence and response is often hidden; the current is both the water and the fact that it is still going on—now.”
To learn more about this major work, you’ll definitely want to check out the following:
- An article in the Weekend Special, which includes in-depth description of the play and its themes.
- An article in The Cape Robyn, which includes an interview with director and Freehold co-founder Robin Lynn Smith.
- Bush Radio interview with actor and musician Jen Moore.
- Fine Music Radio interview with director and Freehold co-founder Robin Lynn Smith.
