A couple of months ago, The Sundance Institute from the USA invited me, amongst others, to participate in a multiple-day workshop on Theatre, that they were coming to organise in East Africa.

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As someone who had been aware of Sundance due to an over-exposure to Robert Redford in my itinerant youth (I had lived in 5 different countries before I was 25 years old), I was aware of the Institute as an earnest artistic development of Redford\’s career in the arts. I remembered his acting most from a film called The Hot Rock, about some African diplomats in the US trying to organise the retrieval of a diamond that belonged to their country through hiring a team of bungling burglars of whom Redford was the leader. I remember, as a young man, really liking the way the Africans were portrayed. So much as he was only an actor in the film, I thereafter developed a liking for All Things Redford. Years later, I saw his brilliantly directed low-key film: The Milagro Beanfield War. The film was basically about the deliberately attempted impoverishment of a small Hispanic rural community, that made me think of Native Americans. Continue Reading »

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