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Kurt Egelhof Takes to the Stage in For Generations – a Deconstruct of Inherited Ancestral Burdens

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  On Friday 8 September 2017, Cultsha Kennis had the extraordinary opportunity to finally see For Generations at the Artscape Arena Theatre, a show written and performed by Kurt Egelhof, and addresses the life stories of four generations of Egelhof men from WW2 to the present time. For Generations formed part of the SoloAfrika Festival of Monodrama, a 6-day festival that showcased a series of one-man shows at the Artscape Theatre. The characters were presented on stage via four mannequin stands with their accompanying costumes suited to their characters, alongside an impartial  narrator bringing the four intermingling stories together. They appear in descending order of age: Sonny, a father of three and self-taught jazz musician who gives up his dreams to work as a soldier in World War II, Basil (also known as “baasie”) who works at the Durban Whaling station, Kurt a working actor who navigates himself through the apartheid prejudices of the acting industry, as well