Fix + Foxy鈥檚 Dark Noon is coming Off-Broadway to St. Ann's Warehouse later this summer, and its company of players has been assembled.
Dark Noon, which will run from June 7 to July 7, was a 半岛体育 Pick at the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show sees South African artists (including co-director and choreographer Nhlanhla Mahlangu) and seven South African actors join forces with acclaimed Danish director Tue Biering to spin the myth of the American Wild West, as endlessly glorified by Hollywood westerns of the 1950s, on its head.
Performed on a bare stage, the skeleton film set of a Western town emerges in real time as the actors embody the distinctive characters of America鈥檚 past: cowboys, gold seekers, missionaries, enslaved Africans, Chinese workers, Native Americans, prostitutes, Bluecoats, and Confederates.
Said Biering, 鈥淔rom the very start there was always this idea of using these mythologies that are connected to Western movies. The idea that most of these stories are on the frontier of civilization, and the moral compass is not in place yet so you are negotiating all the time between the 鈥榞ood鈥� and the 鈥榚vil.鈥� So [their storytelling] is very binary and very simple鈥� [It was about] combining these very simple narratives with the idea of talking about something very complex.鈥�
The Off-Broadway production of Dark Noon will feature Bongani Bennedict Masango, Joe Young, Kaygee Letsholonyana, Lillian Tshabalala, Mandla Gaduka, Siyambonga Alfred Mdubeki, and Thulani Zwane.
In addition to Biering and Mahlangu, the creative team will include set designer Johan K酶lkj忙r, sound designer Ditlev Brinth, lighting designer Christoffer Gull酶v, prop designer Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz, costume designer Camilla Lind, video designer Rasmus Kreiner, producer Annette Max Hansen, production managers Anne Balsma and Thomas Dotzler, and stage manager Svante Huniche Corell.
Said St. Ann鈥檚 Warehouse Artistic Director Susan Feldman, 鈥淲e are delighted to be working with Glynis Henderson Productions, Edinburgh鈥檚 Pleasance, New York鈥檚 Alchemation, fix+foxy, and Spoleto Festival USA to premiere Dark Noon in America. What attracted me most was the humor and sense of play brought to the outrageous, preposterous, and yet deadly notions of TV westerns. (My dad was an avid fan, and we watched them all the time, especially on Sunday nights.) The cartoonish send-up of our violent upbringing, juxtaposed with the lawlessness of our current predicaments, seems a fun way to refocus the lens on who we are, where we鈥檙e from and how we live. The actors and the audience are having a ball up there on the stage, and the energy is infectious.鈥�
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