Bridling

Bridling, written by Nadia Davids, is the third collaboration between the playwright and director/choreographer Jay Pather. Davids’s adaptation of her Caine-Prize award-winning story of the same name, is an electric new work in which a young actor wins a prize role in an edgy performance art production helmed by a lauded male director.

 Performed by Buhle Ngaba, and supported by dancer Shaun Oelf, the play charts the actor’s journey from audition to opening night, containing within it a dark, unsettling meta-commentary about creativity, feminism, compromise and rebellion.

 Pather takes up Davids’ feminist tale - described by Caine Prize judges as “a triumph of language, storytelling and risk-taking”- to create an exquisite multi-disciplinary work that seamlessly merges text, movement, set and image in his singular, innovative style.

(Image credit: Mark Wessels)