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Fig Trees (2009)

ALL 02/09/2009 (en) Documentary, Music 100 Min
  • Release
    02/09/2009
  • Production
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  • Original title
    Fig Trees
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.

  1. John Greyson

    Director

  2. Story

  4. John Greyson

    Producer



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  1. Van Abrahams

    Christopher Moraka

  2. Zackie Achmat

    Christopher Moraka

  3. Stephen Chen

    Saint Caesura

  4. Ezra Perlman

    St. Martin

  5. Ashton Williams

    Nkosi Johnson

  6. Denise Williams

    St. Teresa of Avila

  7. David Wall

    Tim McCaskell

  8. Deborah Overes

    Gertrude Stein

  9. Mark Hartmeier

    St. Peregrine

  10. Justin Bacchus

    Christopher Moraka

  11. Stephen McClare

    Translator

  12. Jennifer Moore

    Thabo/Manto/Rat

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 12 , Crews : 11

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Fig Trees (2009) 100 Min

ALL 02/09/2009 (en)
Documentary, Music
  • Release 02/09/2009
  • Production
  • Original title Fig Trees
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.

  1. John Greyson

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Jared Raab, Bill Layton

    Editor

  4. John Greyson

    Producer



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