{"id":1149,"date":"2024-12-05T13:16:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2024-12-08T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:29:47","slug":"isidlamlilo-the-fire-eater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/toneel\/isidlamlilo-the-fire-eater\/","title":{"rendered":"Isidlamlilo\/The Fire Eater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\"><em>Isidlamlilo\/The Fire Eater<\/em>  is an electrifying and acclaimed one-woman show brought to life by actress Mpume Mthombeni and theatre maker Neil Coppen, through their award-winning company Empatheatre. The play is inspired by the true story of a woman who served as a political assassin for the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the build-up to South Africa\u2019s first democratic election. Zenzile Maseko, the protagonist, is a 60-year-old Zulu grandmother living in a small women\u2019s hostel in downtown Durban. Falsely declared dead by the Department of Home Affairs, she finds herself cast into a Kafkaesque nightmare that forces her to confront her past as a hitwoman during the 1980\u2019s, in the fierce battle between the IFP and the ANC. Through modes of magical realism and African folklore, the play explores KwaZulu-Natal\u2019s turbulent history of violence and revenge, but above all, it looks at the remarkable resilience and reinvention of its protagonist. Winner of the Woordtrofee for Best Performance: Technical and Design, Best Performance: Solo, and Best Original South African Script at the Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees (2024).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die bekroonde Isidlamlilo\/The Fire Eater is \u2019n verbysterende solovertoning, aangebied deur die aktrise Mpume Mthombeni en teatermaker Neil Coppen, onder die vaandel van hul bekroonde Empatheatre. Die toneelstuk is ge\u00efnspireer deur die ware verhaal van \u2019n vrou wat \u2019n politieke sluipmoordenaar vir die Inkatha Vryheidsparty (IVP) was in die aanloop tot Suid-Afrika se eerste demokratiese [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,23],"tags":[],"datum":[10,11,12],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drama","category-toneel","datum-1-april-2025","datum-2-april-2025","datum-3-april-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"datum","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/datum?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}