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Fig Trees( 2009)

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Van Abrahams

      Christopher Moraka

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      Zackie Achmat

      Christopher Moraka

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      Stephen Chen

      Saint Caesura

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      Ezra Perlman

      St. Martin

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      Ashton Williams

      Nkosi Johnson

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      Denise Williams

      St. Teresa of Avila

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      David Wall

      Tim McCaskell

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      Deborah Overes

      Gertrude Stein

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      Mark Hartmeier

      St. Peregrine

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      Justin Bacchus

      Christopher Moraka

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      Stephen McClare

      Translator

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      Jennifer Moore

      Thabo/Manto/Rat

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    English

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