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Jungle Theatre Company presents

Vallende Maan
Date: 25 – 28 September Venue: Artscape Arena Time: 10.30am Bookings: Computicket
Stacey Francke in Falling Moon, photo Lorraine Tanner

Tickets: R50

Left: Vincent Meyburgh and Unathi Speelman in Falling Moon, photo: Lorraine Tanner

Many different people from all over the world look up into the night sky at the same moon, and because of this many stories have been told about the moon. The bushman or Khoisan like telling stories about the moon and they dance under the moonlight, calling for rain when it is dry. At Jungle Theatre Company, we also like telling stories and have turned Khoisan stories into modern theatre plays. One such folktale is about the moon falling out of the sky, which we have transformed into a play called Vallende Maan. In the play the moon falls out of the sky and lands in a semi desert of the Klein Karoo. Three very different characters - a dancer, a scientist and a businessman find the moon. They decide to take the moon to Cape Town and go on an adventure over deserts, rivers and mountains. A storyteller invites the audience to come and help the characters on their journey. But things start to go wrong on the way to Cape Town and the characters start fighting. The moon begins to die, the earth starts crying and the three characters need help to get the moon back to where it belongs. Tell your parents that