We Say Our Names When We Pray explores the tapestry of four transgender identities across three different generations. The women navigate their lives in secret and gather at Madibuseng’s house as a form of communion to relieve themselves from the world’s violence. Their peace is disturbed when a massacre imposes itself on them and they are confronted with legal implications of being ‘men who cross-dress’.
The play confronts love, loss and the meandering routes of becoming. We Say Our Names When We Pray is a choreopoem that borrows from the African ritual and praise poems such as Ditlhaloso or Izithakazelo. It encapsulates heightened text and movement through physical theatre
