2009
Fig Trees
5.0/10
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 confe...
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Fig Trees
Genre: Dokumenter, Musik
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.
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John Greyson
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Cast
Van Abrahams
As Christopher Moraka
Zackie Achmat
As Christopher Moraka
Stephen Chen
As Saint Caesura
Ezra Perlman
As St. Martin
Ashton Williams
As Nkosi Johnson
Denise Williams
As St. Teresa of Avila
David Wall
As Tim McCaskell
Deborah Overes
As Gertrude Stein
Mark Hartmeier
As St. Peregrine
Justin Bacchus
As Christopher Moraka