Sarah by Karien Polley 2016

It is a cold, windy evening in the Eastern Cape. Sarah Baartman and “History” is conversing around a fire in the open veld. “History“ wants to rewrite Sarah’s life story , he want to give a more objective view of her tragic fate. He wants her side of the story. Sarah is not who she was 200 years ago, when she died exploited and abandoned in Paris. She now sees her life in context. Can her tragic life give us insight into the past and how prejudice leads to racial stereotyping? Sarah voices her contempt for patriarchy and her concern for the increasing violence against women and children.