Project: Volume Please!

Mxolisi Norman is a South African writer, performer and musician. I worked in collaboration with him on Volume Please!, an exploration of his heritage in apartheid South Africa. Through storytelling, poetry, music and song he introduced his mother as ‘Queen of the Shabeen’ and showed his father’s rejection of ‘coloured-ness’.

I directed this piece, collaborated on script edits and structure and performed double bass to Xoli’s trumpet.

This piece has been performed in the UK and South Africa.