TAU

Does culture protect one’s identity or does one’s identity protect culture? The story of a boy who is turning with time, like a wheel where change and time are the only constant variables. Tau goes through himself as he goes through the world, trying to understand the world, his world. Finding and losing himself in his friends, family and village. How can you be like others when you are so different that it scares you? What is it that really defines a man?

The story is set in the modern Free State were cultural norms and traditional practices play a huge part in the community. The main character, Tau, lives in a conflict of modern and traditional domestic rules deeply rooted in the African history and mythology. His father is a traditionalist and a community elder and his mother is a neo-traditionalist with the ability to be swayed. Once confronted with this conflict, he embarks on a journey of discovering his manhood, himself and his Basotho culture.

The story of Tau deals with cultural issues that are so sensitive that they have been the same way for centuries and no one has ever questioned them.  It also deals with the taboo issue of homosexuality in the midst of a sacred “manly” ceremony. The play does not wish to shun the cultural beliefs of audiences, rather it wishes to ask people to look to themselves and ask whether they are abusing customs on the grounds of ignorance.

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