For longer than 10 years, Craig Palm had his brain zeroed in on building a name for himself in the TV and entertainment world. That worked for him since he scored many energizing jobs in TV shows and movies like Yizo, Generations, Backstage, Isidingo and Rhythm City.
Today, Palm is an easily recognized name. He gets back to theater acting in something he last did at school 21 years prior. The entertainer, who turns 40 in November, gets back to the stage with Athol Fugard’s exemplary play Blood Knot.
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The play opens at the Market Theater on October 15. Palm, a man who characterizes theater as an otherworldly encounter, is eager to be back in front of an audience. Palm enjoyed some time off from theater after his representative, the late Moonyeenn Lee, proposed he center around TV and film since it was an in-thing.
“I have not done performance center in 21 years. I’m trusting with my return I will make Moonyeenn glad. The two universes are unique. Film is about the story and theater is about the entertainer recounting a story. With this show James Ngcobo has touched off an old sparkle.
I feel magnificent in light of the fact that I am assuming a part that was played by the incredible Fugard. What makes it significantly more extraordinary is that he is as yet alive and turning 90 one year from now. What more could I request?”
In the two-hander show, coordinated by Ngcobo, Palm acts close by the prepared stage and TV entertainer Mncedisi Shabangu. The show is around two siblings Morris (played by Palm) and Zacharia (played by Shabangu), who explore the complexities of being caught in a spot that offers them only destitution.
“Blood Knot is about the connection between two siblings. It is tied in with being baffled by how their current circumstance restricts their fantasies. It is about land issues and most certainly it returns you to where we come from in the wake of being colonized.
Through narrating, we take you to during the Dutch and politically-sanctioned racial segregation times. The show is extremely educative and exceptionally pertinent to numerous circumstances we experience presently,” Palm says.