Brothers, Friend & Go Hasigu! by Umsindo & STUT (South Africa & Utrecht)

In November 2013, actors Hassan Oumhammed and Güner Güven of Stut theater opened the Isigcawu festival in KwaMashu township near Durban. The double bill they performed there, Friend/Mahmoud, is partly inspired by their own youth in the rough Utrecht-neighborhood of Overvecht. In Durban, Hassan and Güner also met two young artists who call themselves Umsindo and run their own cultural center where they offer free art courses to township youth. The two, who are twins, are also powerful performers in their own right and together they created Brothers, a highly physical but also metaphorical performance about life in the township and how it relates to South Africa as a whole. Both of these shows are performed at ICAF, together with a new short that Stut and Umsindo have created together.

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