Katleho | Atteindre

Over two weeks in November 2021, members of the Kwasha! Theatre Company in Johannesburg - Khethuthula Jele, Kgothatso Makwala and Mpho Malesa - participated in a workshop facilitated by multidisciplinary artist, Lindiwe Matshikiza. Prompted by the recent work and research of Kinshasa-based rapper, poet and cultural producer, Orakle Ngoy, the company members developed writing and ideas for performance. They also exchanged and recorded their reflections on theatre, context and making with Orakle herself through different forms of long-distance communication. The short film emerges as a record of that process, and of a fragile, intimate moment at the end of a challenging year. Moving between thought, poem, the ordinary and the ethereal, it is a collective exploration of the possibilities of creating together across, with and beyond language and borders.