Fig Trees (2009)

Özet

FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.

Oyuncular

• Van Abrahams

  Christopher Moraka

• Zackie Achmat

  Christopher Moraka

• Stephen Chen

  Saint Caesura

• Ezra Perlman

  St. Martin

• Ashton Williams

  Nkosi Johnson

• Denise Williams

  St. Teresa of Avila

• David Wall

  Tim McCaskell

• Deborah Overes

  Gertrude Stein

• Mark Hartmeier

  St. Peregrine

• Justin Bacchus

  Christopher Moraka

• Stephen McClare

  Translator

• Jennifer Moore

  Thabo/Manto/Rat

Ekip

Yönetmen

John Greyson

Yapımcı

John Greyson

Kurgu

Jared Raab