The event was to launch this year’s play by the Kwasha! Theatre Company, a group formed to give graduates from the Market Theatre Laboratory their first professional job and a guaranteed salary for a year. Except that the latest batch of students graduated into a world where theatres were closed, audiences were banned and nobody knew how it would all survive.
Its members have explored digital opportunities, and worked on various Zoom events including some international cooperations. They recently launched what would normally have been a “proof we’re professional” stage show, but instead of filling an auditorium they turned Boris Vian’s absurdist play