PURGATORIO, by Ariel Dorfman, directed by Clare Stopford, visual score by Kai Lossgott

PURGATORIO

Award winning actor David Minnaar loses himself in a maze of memory for Kai Lossgott's experimental visual score for Clare Stopford's production of "Purgatorio", by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman.

Working in his capacity as experimental filmmaker, Kai Lossgott has composed a sensitive visual track that complements, counterpoints and underlines Dorfman's complex script.

"Ariel Dorfman's riveting play Purgatorio deals with a Man and a Woman in purgatory - a stark and soulless waiting room. Their identities are fluid and as the drama unfolds it emerges that they are each other`s interrogators, searching for clemency and contrition. Their fates are bound together by a horrific past, and freedom depends on their willingness to sacrifice themselves, each for the other. Trapped in the resonance of their actions and with the roles reversed, the inquisition and the healing begins as each of the characters search for understanding, forgiveness and redemption."

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Graeme College
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