A poetic, genre-blurring film, Variations on a Theme excavates ancestral grief, memory and forgotten histories in a Northern Cape community still waiting for justice

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It also explores the patriarchy, the role of women in a male-dominated society and the concept of love versus sex

By fighting for her artistic voice, theatre-maker, playwright and 2022 M&G 200 Young South African, Slindile Mthembu, is taking the evolution of theatre beyond the traditional

Originally a play, Unfathomable is now an art-as-research film that tenderly explores inter-generational loss and trauma.

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