Event Description
Performance duration: 1 hr 45 minutes, no interval.
An untold story of the Wild (Wild) West.
Fix+Foxy, Glynis Henderson Productions & The Pleasance | SOUTH AFRICA & DENMARK present Dark Noon, flipping the script on the Wild West, envisioning American history as equal parts absurd, horrifying and deeply profound.
On a stage covered in the red dirt of the prairie, a pioneer town springs up in real time as an extraordinary cast of South African actors reimagines the story of the American frontier through an outsider’s lens.
Directed by Danish visionary Tue Biering and South African co-director and choreographer Nhlanhla Mahlangu, Dark Noon challenges everything you thought you knew about the Wild West. Through gunslinging cowboys, Native Americans, missionaries, enslaved Africans, Chinese workers and European settlers, it tears down Hollywood tropes with slapstick humour, breathtaking stagecraft and biting satire.
Fresh from five-star runs at New York’s St Ann’s Warehouse, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Factory International, Dark Noon transforms Sydney Town Hall for a limited season, pulling audiences into a raw, immersive ride through history that confronts power, race and displacement.
A fearless and unmissable festival experience. Head to Sydney Town Hall before Dark Noon to enjoy a drink at the Sydney Festival Theatre Bar, brought to you by Doltone House. Bar opens one hour prior to the show.
