Third World Bunfight presents

Blood Diamonds

Throughout 2012

Site specific

Blood Diamonds is a site-specific concept rather than a ready-made production. It is a response to the city and location in which it is staged and the social and historical tensions that play out there: how the roots of the troubled present reach back into the complex and multi-layered past; how the world we live in tells an extraordinary story that we seldom have the time or concentration to consider.

Blood Diamonds involves working with local people – historians, sociologists, social workers and storytellers – in order to create a landscape of performance installations that spin a web of associations and connections.

In 2009, Blood Diamonds premiered at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. It took place in the railway station where the audience was ushered into the long ticket office before being taken by the hand by a young “street child” – down the platform, over the railway bridge, and finally into the graveyard beyond. The journey was punctuated by a series of performance installations illustrating the elemental fracture in the South African soul – the great bloody fault line that divides Colony and Africa, Savage and Civilised.

“This brilliant piece forges a shift in your emotional equilibrium and touches your understanding of others and the social flaws in a Festival of this nature” -  Cue

If you would like to book Blood Diamonds please contact Jan Ryan  

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