Hearts and Eyes presents

Ncamisa! Kiss the Women

2010

Directed By: Peter Hayes
Performed By: Pamela Ngwabeni

Ncamisa! Kiss The Women is the moving story of a football-playing black lesbian growing up in one of the townships in South Africa. The production presents a raw and gritty world of deep passions, serious relationships and casual violence woven together with soccer and song.

In 2007, Zoliswa Nkonyana was chased by a group of young men and beaten and stabbed to death in front of her partner. They made it clear that she deserved to die because she was a lesbian. Ncamisa! Kiss The Women, instead of pointing the finger, is a celebration of the lives of women like Zoliswa.

Ncamisa! Kiss The Women is an emotional piece of theatre but is also packed full of humour, which makes the issues covered by this one-woman show even more touching.

The piece consists of a series of dramatised scenes of Ngwabeni's own experiences of living in a black community and the violence that a different lifestyle can evoke. These scenes are connected smoothly and framed with a contemporary soundtrack including Antony and the Johnsons and Lucinda Williams.

"A groundbreaking new play" Mail and Guardian

"An emotionally gripping production" Cue TV

"Pam Ngwabeni's monologue literally takes the bull by its horns and shakes up the myths and preconceptions that surround sexual orientation...the empathy moved one to tears. This is the kind of theatre needed to change attitudes" The Citizen