WW1

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• The first part of the book extensively details the first year of existence of the 60th Australian Infantry Battalion.
• Each man was someone's son, someone's brother, someone's relative, someone's friend, and possibly ... someone's sweetheart.
• They were loved and cherished when they were alive and dearly missed after their death.
• The second part of the book is an investigation concerning the "Needle Trench 10."

• South African artist William Kentridge became world famous for his charcoal drawings and hand-drawn animated films, but his work continued to grow in scope and he began staging performances.
• The production was first performed in London in 2018; its South African premiere was delayed by three years because of the COVID pandemic.

How was the idea for the production hatched?

• It’s an old military structure 85 metres long – so the idea came for a processional piece using that length, connected to the military.
• And that brought us back to the idea of the First World War.

What did you find out about Africans in WW1?

• So the idea was to look at this hidden history of Africa in the First World War.
• And the Head & the Load is an attempt to note their actions and give recognition and record them.
• They were not inscribed in stone in the way that so many European names are, both in Europe and in the former colonies.

How do you achieve the combination of so many art forms?

• We used that letter as part of our text.
• And there are dances done in the north of South Africa in skirts, based on the kilts of Scottish soldiers.
• This mixture of African dance and military drilling is still performed today, a remnant of the war.
• So we used all these mediums to try to make a collage of experience for a viewer watching the play.

Where did the title come from?

• It implies that there is both the physical load on the shoulders and a historical load of history which is borne by people going through the world.
• And there is a psychic load – the sense of being ignored, of being silenced, of being invisible.