{"id":126,"date":"2008-11-08T17:44:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?p=126"},"modified":"2012-11-12T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:13:25","slug":"flora-smith-introduces-son-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/2008\/11\/flora-smith-introduces-son-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Flora Smith introduces Son of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s Forest Row Film Society screening of <span class=\"filmTitle\"><a title=\"See previous post about the film\" href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/2008\/11\/special-screening-of-son-of-man\/\">Son of Man<\/a><\/span> drew a packed house of over 120 people. Introduced by Flora Smith who, with Mark Dornford-May, worked heavily on the original theatre production on which the film was based, the audience were treated to the remarkable story of the project and the creation of the film.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\" width=\"200\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Flora Smith introduces Son of Man\" src=\"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/images\/flora.jpg\" alt=\"Flora Smith introduces Son of Man\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:90%;text-align:center;\">Flora Smith introduces Son of Man<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cast entirely using non-professional actors and singers from a South African township, the original theatre company created powerful and at times controversial Xhosa versions of Carmen and the Chester mystery plays. These were performed not only in South Africa, but also in London and on a subsequent world tour to great acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>The Carmen production was filmed first (released as <span class=\"filmTitle\">U-Carmen eKhayelitsha<\/span>) and the mystery plays rewritten and released as <span class=\"filmTitle\">Son of Man<\/span> in 2006 utilising some of the words of Steve Biko in Jesus&#8217; sermons and speeches.<\/p>\n<p>The audience responded very positively to the film, talking afterwards of the current resonances with events in Congo, and also in the context of the US election results. We look forward to screening <span class=\"filmTitle\">U-Carmen eKhayelitsha<\/span> next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s Forest Row Film Society screening of Son of Man drew a packed house of over 120 people. Introduced by Flora Smith who, with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}