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Fig Trees (2009)
4 Throats from John Greyson's Fig Trees
FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal...
12 cast members
Van Abrahams
Zackie Achmat
Stephen Chen
Ezra Perlman
Ashton Williams
Denise Williams
David Wall
Deborah Overes
Mark Hartmeier
Justin Bacchus