Opening on the 9th of July at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town is South Africa’s first full-length, original a cappella musical - Noah of Cape Town.

The musical is an intuitive look into a future where Cape Town, like every other city in the world, is suffering from the effects of global warming, environmental disasters, fuel shortages, war and corruption. There is also an oppressive government struggling to maintain control, that tolerates little or no opposition, as desperate people do whatever it takes to obtain food and water...

And of course there is a character nicknamed Noah, who has visions of... a flood.

Our human culture is fascinated by myth. Whether or not these myths are true is open to debate reflected in works by historians, and religious texts. But, certain myths tend to invade our consciousness, regardless of religion or race. The major 7, into which even our current news stories fall(if you look at them closely enough), are: the victim, the scapegoat, the hero, the good mother, the trickster, the other world and of course, the flood. Obviously, the interpretations are not completely literal, most of the time.

Modern society tends to frown on the idea of myth – seeing it as non-intellectual and uncivilized. But we live in an age that has decontructed everything - from the atom to our minds - and it seems right, now, to construct or apply an idea, or myth, not to the past – but our future.

The script for Noah is written by Megan Furniss and Graham Weir, whilst Weir composed and arranged the original songs and music.

A cantata version of Noah was performed as part of Artscape’s New Writing Season in 2005, received critical acclaim and sold-out for the duration of its short run. Finally, after years of talking, meeting, dreaming and plotting, Graham and Megan teamed up with Simon Cooper and formed Uncomfortable Productions, and the full scale production of Noah was born.

Noah of Cape Town brings together evocative, beautiful music, with environmental issues, humour, esoteric elements, set design and a story (or myth) about the unique human condition.

Tickets can be purchased through Computicket. Don't know about you, but we're certainly going to see it!