Gregory Maqoma’s GENESIS: The Beginning and End of Time

Gregory Maqoma’s GENESIS: The Beginning and End of Time is a powerful and allegorical journey through the half-life of colonial history, the timeless quest for liberation, and the inner and outer battles human beings face on the way. Inspired by the revolutionary ideas of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Steve Biko, and the poetic defiance of migrant communities across the world, Maqoma and team confront the ghouls of colonial legacies and their role in perpetuating contemporary injustices.

GENESIS adopts a hybrid form, the dance opera – where movement, live music, and text weave seamlessly into an intensely theatrical and poetic narrative –and sets the story in a parallel time, one suffused with biblical imagery, regional myths, and recent history.