Set in a campsite in South Africa’s famed Kruger Park, the show is composed of eight interlinked stories told by activist and poet Mona Morse, who has fled civilization for the bushveld. The postcards she sends home claim that she’s transformed herself into a hyena.

After a six-year international tour with her award-winning solo-show Sea Peach, Kidd published her first novel, but has now returned to her signature performance style, hybridizing poetic rhythm and rhyme with traditional prose narrative, to enhance the inherent musicality of language and create a heightened, magical perspective of reality. In the tradition of the Künstlerroman, Morse’s stories implicitly chafe against the skewed values of her society. Her stories concern social conflicts shared by humans and non-humans alike—such as those between freedom and security, individual and collective, predator and prey, civilized and savage. At their root, these stories question the nature of personhood, and what it means to be granted the status of “person.”

See more of Cat Kidd's work at www.catkidd.com.