Finally

And so it is done! Finally!

I have submitted the registration form for the Grahamstown National Arts Festival. I really feel like somehow the rest of my life has finally started... a bit dramatic, I know, but so true.

I have heard people refer to a human being's 33rd year on this earth as "their watershed year". This could not have been more true. I am only half way through mine and boy have I reached some turning-points in my life. The biggest one undeniably finally getting my act together and submerging myself with what I really love doing... It took me such an incredible long time to muster the courage.

Finally... finally I am writing, directing and acting! It is early days, but I am convinced that the renewal of old desires will not leave me wanting this time.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you (a huge drumroll) : Rattling the Cage!

Not only the name of my very first Grahamstown Production, but also what I continuously intend doing :-)

I've been working on the play since July last year, but here is a 50 word description for now.

Offenders are pronounced enemies of the people, and consigned to institutional confinement, then they are dumped back on society, with every assurance that changes have taken place in them for the worse.

We are keeping our future hostage and we have imprisoned the memory of our national past by not asking "Why?"

Restorative Justice rattling the cage!

Inspired by the movie: "Julie and Julia", I will blog the progress over 159 days, as we count down to the Grahamstown Festival!