Australopheticus is a satirical play inspired by some professors. In a 1936 Pretoria kitchen, Professor Robert Broom is conducting a ‘scientific’ experiment: his wife Mary’s soup on the left; a Korana skull in the middle; Black Damara feet on the right, Broom’s two-pot system. When Prime Minister Smuts arrives to recruit him for an expedition to select Bushmen as “living fossil” displays, Broom proposes simply extending the two-pot system to the exhibition subjects once they die in the city.
 
Smuts is appalled but cannot satisfactorily explain why this differs from what Broom is already doing. It has fallen to Elisa Mokoena, the new housemaid, on her first day, to mind all three pots. She has been watching. She is done. Australopithecus exposes the dehumanizing logic of colonial anthropology and the way institutions simultaneously enable and disavow their own brutal practices.

PARKING, ACCESSIBILITY, REFRESHMENTS, RULES

PROHIBITED: NO CAMERAS OR RECORDING DEVICES ARE ALLOWED – ONLY AUTHORISED PERSONNEL

WHAT PARKING FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED AT THE VENUE?
• Safe parking available via the Station Street Entrance – off Jorissen Street after 17h00.
• For daytime shows, all visitors should park at the visitors parking on Yale Road at the Anglo – Dome.
• For visitors on foot, please use the Sutton Close Entrance, to scan your ID and make your way to the Wits Theatre
• For high schools coming to attend, all schools should report to Wits University an hour before the show, park buses at the visitors’ parking spaces by the Anglo - Dome and may make their way to the Wits Theatre.
• For Uber drop off, please use Sutton Close Entrance, to scan your ID and make your way to the Wits Theatre
• All visitors and guests PLEASE HAVE YOUR VALID DRIVER’S LICENSE OR I.D WHEN VISITING THE CAMPUS

ARE REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE AT VENUE? YES

WHAT DISABLED FACILITIES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE VENUE? WHEELCHIR RAMP & ELEVATOR