"We have art in order not to die of the truth," Friedrich Nietzsche once said. The theatre piece Hate Radio, which opened at the Wits Theatre last week is probably the kind of art Nietzsche? was envisioning at the time.
Slaughter and mutilation
We should be paying attention to art like Hate Radio more than ever.
The Rwandan genocide acts like a prism for every human to see the absolute worst of humanity.
For in the slaughter and mutilation of the Tutsi's in Rwanda, lies the face of hatred, the face of persecution and oppression.
Whether a war on a people is due to race, class, gender, religion or sexual orientation, we can all see these persecutions there in this historical recreation.
And I guess that's the point, we have art in order not to die of the truth.
For more details about the show, click here.