NO EASTER SUNDAY FOR QUEERS follows the hate crime murderlove story of Napo and Mimi. The lovers, through the spirit, subconscious,Easter Sunday sermon, return on the anniversary of their wedding death crucifixion to make the church pastor perpetrator Father reconcile reckon with the present and the past and a sacrifice crucifixion he must account for.
No Easter Sunday for Queers seeks to bring attention to the rampant wanton and callous murder of queer people, specifically lesbians, in a society which has normalised terms such as “corrective rape” thus it is an important, timely, hard-hitting, no-holds-barred and powerful indictment on and of society’s treatment of those deemed to be the “other.”, ‘No Easter Sunday for Queers’ seeks to bring attention to the rampant wanton and callous murder of queer people, specifically lesbians in a society which has normalised terms such as ‘corrective rape’ thus it is an important, timely, hard-hitting, no-holds-barred and powerful indictment on and of society’s treatment of those deemed to be the ‘other’.
NO EASTER SUNDAY FOR QUEERS follows the hate crime murder love story of Napo and Mimi. The lovers, through the spirit, subconscious, Easter Sunday sermon, return on the anniversary of their wedding death crucifixion to make the church pastor perpetrator Father reconcile reckon with the present and the past and a sacrifice crucifixion he must account for.
NO EASTER SUNDAY FOR QUEERS follows the hate crime murderlove story of Napo and Mimi. The lovers, through the spirit, subconscious, Easter Sunday sermon, return on the anniversary of their wedding death crucifixion to make the church pastor perpetrator Father reconcile reckon with the present and the past and a sacrifice crucifixion he must account for.
In the programme note to Koleka Putuma’s multiple-award winning playtext NO EASTER SUNDAY FOR QUEERS , currently on at the Market Theatre, Putuma and director Mwenya Kabwe write, ‘The alter is a cross and the subconscious a court room where the dead seek justice for a an act sin committed by their perpetrators’. A reckoning is staged, where the violence against queer people is tallied and those.
No Easter Sunday for Queers is a great script, over and above the strongly relevant theme, but what we saw on Tuesday night was half-baked. The story was too short and lacked depth.
The award-winning No Easter Sunday for Queers makes its Market Theatre debut this women’s month. Poet, playwright and theatre director Koleka Putuma’s script won the Distell National Playwright Competition and follows the love story of Napo and Mimi, a deep, poetic and tragic love story of two women in love who are murdered by the community that they thought would protect them.
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No Easter Sunday for Queers (2019) – a drama about religion and queerness based on one of Putuma’s poems. Poetry. Imbebwu Yesini (2016, editor) Collective Amnesia (2017) Awards. National Poetry Slam Championship (2014) PEN South Africa Student Writing Prize (2016) Mbokodo Rising Light Award (2017)
