Aldo Brincat's The Moon Looks Delicious From Here

Aldo Brincats' The Moon Looks Delicious from here

Winner of The Special Jury Award Bitesize Festival London 2024

13-06 | 20:00

"Aldo's mesmerising performance and copipelling story makes for a wonderful hour in the theatre. A true original, this story is authentic, endearing and moving in equat measure."

Tony Lankester - ED Riverside Studios

Directed by Sjaka Septembir

Music By Bongeziwe Mabandla

"I had a most magical upbringing. Literally. My formative years were rich – a heady mix of the arts, foreign ancestral and local cultures, strict (Latin) Catholicism, and fraught-yet-loving family dynamics - all set against the sensorial beauty of my coastal home city, Durban, its people, its humidity, and its vast Indian Ocean. 

Durban was, of course, not exempt from the tightening grip of apartheid. Around the mid-80’s (when I was saying goodbye to my youth), one could not separate the lushness of Durban from the constant drone of security police helicopters hovering over the plumes of smoke rising above Cato Manor, KwaMashu and Umlazi. 

In our home, my mother held strong conservative opinions while my father was what we might today call ‘non-racist’, leaning towards ‘anti-racist’. That these two souls from different parts of the globe negotiated their love for each other, their deep disappointments, and disparate worldviews, is not only a mystery to me, but a marvel. 

The Moon Looks Delicious From Here is born out of my practice-led research at Stellenbosch University (Master’s in Visual Arts), looking into how we convert memory, loss, grief, shame and the passing of time into commemorative markers. Writing and performing this ‘commemorative marker’ offers me an opportunity to take you with me, not only as audience, but as witnesses, as I - like you - (re)invent and (re)imagine bits of my past, toward exorcising demons of old and embracing uncertain futures. 

Thank you for attending." - Aldo Brincat