Fix + Foxy’s Dark Noon began performances Off-Broadway to St. Ann's Warehouse June 7, and the reviews are out!
Dark Noon, which will run through July 7, was a Playbill Pick at the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show sees South African artists (including co-director and choreographer Nhlanhla Mahlangu) and seven South African actors join forces with acclaimed Danish director Tue Biering to spin the myth of the American Wild West, as endlessly glorified by Hollywood westerns of the 1950s, on its head.
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Performed on a bare stage, the skeleton film set of a Western town emerges in real time as the actors embody the distinctive characters of America’s past: cowboys, gold seekers, missionaries, enslaved Africans, Chinese workers, Native Americans, prostitutes, Bluecoats, and Confederates.
Read the reviews below.
New York Stage Review (David Finkle)
The New York Times (Jesse Green)*
New York Theatre Guide (Austin Fimmano)
Stage and Cinema (Gregory Fletcher)
TheaterMania (Kenji Fujishima)
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Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.
The Off-Broadway production of Dark Noon features Bongani Bennedict Masango, Joe Young, Kaygee Letsholonyana, Lillian Tshabalala, Mandla Gaduka, Siyambonga Alfred Mdubeki, and Thulani Zwane.
In addition to Biering and Mahlangu, the creative team includes set designer Johan Kølkjær, sound designer Ditlev Brinth, lighting designer Christoffer Gulløv, prop designer Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz, costume designer Camilla Lind, video designer Rasmus Kreiner, producer Annette Max Hansen, production managers Anne Balsma and Thomas Dotzler, and stage manager Svante Huniche Corell.
For more information, visit StAnnsWarehouse.org.
