


Written and performed by the internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning, multi-disciplinary artist, Aldo Brincat - and directed by the award-winning theatre maverick, Sophie Joans - Masc is a comedy that celebrates friendship, love, sex, and gender.
In Masc, we meet this same young man, decades later, as he recounts these poignant and hilarious influences, and how they shaped him to be the person he is today. While Brincat plays an array of characters through the medium of physical theatre, it is his brilliant use of theatre masks which elevates this production into a truly unique theatrical piece. Brincat wanders through this sharp, 60-minute solo performance, with a heavy comedic touch; deftly dishing out dollops of pathos and irony along the way - leaving audiences both devastated and enchanted in equal measure.
Production Credits
Aldo Brincat - Playright and Performer
Sophie Joans - Director
About the Artists
Aldo Brincat’s primary career in the performing arts, was founded under the tutelage of the legendary Jacques Le Coq in Paris in the late 80’s. Upon his return to South Africa, Brincat established Brincat Productions, an ad-hoc theatre company which focused on original, socio-political work, community theatre initiatives, and site-specific activations. During this time, Brincat received an invitation to perform for His Excellency, Nelson Mandela, on his birthday in 1997; and an invitation to showcase his environmental theatre work, Woza Waste Water, at the World Bank in Washington D.C., in 2000. In 2018, Brincat was commissioned to write a theatre piece, Light, for Ian Khama to celebrate his accession to the Presidency of Botswana. Brincat has been nominated for, and won, several theatre and community initiative awards, and was voted by the Mail & Guardian (SA), as among The Top Five Stage Performers of the Decade, 1999 – 2010. Brincat’s theatre career served as the foundation for his recent expansion and immersion into the visual arts. In 2018, his epic photography exhibition, Foreign Nationals, was invited to the Brunei Gallery at SOAS, at the University of London. Brincat has since completed his postgraduate degree in Fine Art at UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Art (with a Distinction), and a Master’s in Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University (Cum Laude). To date, he has had multiple solo visual art exhibitions in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, England, India, and recently, Sweden. His 21st solo exhibition, At The Edge Of The Vanishing, was staged recently at The Gallery at Glen Carlou, in Cape Town.
- Venue: Gymnasium
- Location: Victoria Girl's High School
- Ticket price: ZAR 120.00
- Programme type: The Fringe
- Genre: Theatre
- Duration: 60 minutes
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Ages:
16+
- M - MATURE CONTENT, P - PREJUDICE