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Footers
Group: UK Arts International & Shay Linehan |
| Dave Clements | |
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Footers is about a journey taken by the two central characters, in this play set in Zambia - one, a street boy, the other a teacher travelling from village to village. The street boy steals money from Papa Jo, the local mafioso type. Poverty is relative says the teacher, 'yes, my relatives steal everything' he responds. The street boy convinces the teacher to do 'something African' ie impersonate a witchdoctor to convince Papa Jo that the thief is someone else. This falls flat, but he decides instead to exploit the teacher and sell his 'magic mushroom medicine' to the city folk. They've so many problems they'll try anything, he thinks. (The street boy also goes African eg performing an exorcism and speaking in tongues to convince punters that his quackery is for real). But Papa Jo wants a piece of the action and pressures the street boy to find the secret ingredient. What begins as a promising satire on the romanticisation of backwardness and poverty becomes a morality tale - and a depressing one at that. Towards the end, they agree that footing is their destiny, and walk off in search of their humble dreams. 'We are all the walking wounded on this journey of life'. Yuk. 1 August to 25
August.
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