NewFoundLand focuses on the intertwining lives and dreams of two South African men Jacques: an Afrikaans anesthetist based in a Pietermartizburg community hospital and Sizwe: a choreographer and student at UKZN who has received a calling (Ukuthwasa) from his ancestors to become a Sangoma. Both men have been raised in conservative communities and are attempting to forge spaces for themselves separate from the cultural, historical and religious forces that seem to bind them to the past. When Jacques and Sizwe meet for a casual sex hook-up, what is meant to be a brief exchange turns into a profound journey into shared consciousness, and an exploration into the seemingly invisible materials that exist between religion and science, medicine and faith and memory and forgetting.
NewFoundLand was presented as a reading at the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Simon Godwin, with Kieran Bew, Gary Carr, Sope Dirisu, Prudence Jezile, Glynnis Masuku, Cecilia Noble, Maggie Steed and Chinna Wodu.