Circle Song

Circle Song is a memory piece. Not quite play or monologue, not quite storytelling, it is spoken to the audience from a narrator’s perspective across an arc of time. Sometimes it is from the voices of people, re-imagined in the past, who left the shores of Ireland and England to begin a life in South Africa. But it rests on the story prompted by a real life event: After a severe brain operation, my mother wakes to the world as a fifteen year old version of herself. The existing narrative was performed for a test audience as part of a trilogy called ‘Bloodlines’, along with

Aldo Brincat’s and Rajesh Gopi’s work (Erin Hall, 29 January, 2022).