Theatre on the Square to present Craig Higginson’s The Imagined Land

Starring Nat Ramabulana, Janna Ramos-Violante and Fiona Ramsay, The Imagined Land is directed by Malcolm Purkey. Set and lighting is designed by Denis Hutchinson while costumes and props are by Joanna Glanville. The Imagined Land is produced by Daphne Kuhn

The Imagined Land revolves around a famous Zimbabwean novelist who is about to undergo brain surgery. Her daughter, a literary critic studying in America, is coming home to Johannesburg to take care of her.

A young biographer – also originally from Zimbabwe – arrives at the front door, requesting to write the biography of the woman who changed the course of his life.

Higginson, the writer of Dream of the Dog and The Girl in the Yellow Dress, returns with a new state of the nation play for our troubled, troubling times.

How do we represent ourselves through narrative? How do we represent each other? Is it true, as Oscar Wilde claimed, that all criticism is a form of autobiography?

This gripping, witty, sexy, heady drama draws on echoes from the lives of Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer. It takes a look at relationships and soon evolves into timely meditation on some of the central dilemmas of our time.

Directed by former artistic director of the Market Theatre, Malcolm Purkey, this production features a dynamic cast including the legendary Fiona Ramsay as Bronwyn and the newest, brightest stars in our theatre scene Nat Ramabulana (Edward) and Janna Ramos-Violante (Emily).

The play transfers to the SA State Theatre later in the year.

Bookings can be made by phoning the theatre’s box-office on +27 11 883-8606 or Strictly Tickets on +27 82 553-5901. Tickets can also be purchased online, here.