PROFOUND AND POIGNANT PLAY HEADED TO MICHAELHOUSE
Iam not ashamed to say that seeing The King of Broken Things for the first time left me deeply moved. I even shed a tear or two.
Michael Broderick’s award-winning one-hander, which is being staged at the Schlesinger Theatre at Michaelhouse, is quite simply one of the most beautiful works I have been privileged to see on stage.
It stars Cara Roberts as a young boy with a broken heart, who shares his journey of discovery through his experiments, projects and creations, challenging the audience to acknowledge their own ‘brokenness’.
Through his love for discarded objects, this ‘King of Broken Things’ teaches us all the importance of reparation and how all things, seen and unseen, can be mended, creating new things from old.
His story bleeds from the fun and frivolous into one increasingly poignant and personal, where the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to include people and hearts.
It touches on the many issues facing society today, including: bullying; prejudice; gratuitous waste; absent fathers; and the futility and consequences of war.
Speaking about his play, which won a gold Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival and three awards at the Golden Dolphin International Puppet Festival in Bulgaria, Taylor Broderick says: “The King of Broken Things dares its audience to imagine, to dream and most of all, to believe.
“It is a show about hope, about fixing and mending, about forgiving and about healing, all of these are key ingredients that are much
needed in our beloved country [and the world] right now.”
Don’t miss this whimsical, profound and poignant one hander. It’s more than worth the trip to Balgowan.
The King of Broken Things can
be seen at 7pm on Friday, January 26. Tickets are R120 at www.quicket. co.za.
For more information call 033 234 1238 or email theatre@michaelhouse.org