ODD ENJINEARS
African Laboratory for unusual Site-Specific Theater
1999-2002
Odd Enjinears: 'One City many Cultures', Cape Town 1999
Odd Enjinears: 'One City many Cultures', Cape Town 1999
Odd Enjinears: 'Blacksmith' at the Forge, Bijou, Cape Town 2000
Odd Enjinears: 'Blacksmith' at the Forge, Bijou, Cape Town 2000
Odd Enjinears: 'Blacksmith' at the Forge, Bijou, Cape Town 2000
Odd Enjinears: 'Blacksmith' at the Forge, Bijou, Cape Town 2000
Odd Enjinears: 'Blacksmith' at the Forge, Bijou, Cape Town 2000
Odd Enjinears: '@ the Power Station', National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2001
Odd Enjinears: '@ the Power Station', National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2001
Odd Enjinears: '@ the Power Station', National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2001
Odd Enjinears: '@ the Power Station', National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2001
Odd Enjinears: '@ the Power Station', National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2001
Odd Enjinears: '@ the Power Station', National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2001
Odd Enjinears: '@ the Power Station', National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2001
Odd Enjinears: '@ the Power Station', National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2001
Odd Enjinears: '@ the Power Station', National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2001
Odd Enjinears: 'Vee Eye Eye', Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town Festival 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Vee Eye Eye', Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town Festival 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Vee Eye Eye', Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town Festival 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Rolling Rumor', Amersfoort Festival, Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Rolling Rumor', Amersfoort Festival, Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Rolling Rumor', Amersfoort Festival, Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Rolling Rumor', Amersfoort Festival, Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Rolling Rumor', Amersfoort Festival, Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Rolling Rumor', Amersfoort Festival, Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Rolling Rumor', Amersfoort Festival, Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Rolling Rumor', Oerol Festival, Terschelling, Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears 'Rolling Rumor', Oerol Festival, Terschelling,Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears 'Rolling Rumor', Oerol Festival, Terschelling, Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Rolling Rumor', Oerol Festival, Terschelling, Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears 'Rolling Rumor', Oerol Festival, Terschelling,Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears 'Rolling Rumor', Oerol Festival, Terschelling,Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Rolling Rumor', Oerol Festival,Terschelling, Netherlands 2002
Odd Enjinears: 'Rolling Rumor', Oerol Festival, Terschelling, Netherlands 2002
From 1999 to 2002, The Odd Enjinears comprised Mark O'Donovan, Geert Jonkers, Simon Dunckley, Jutta Holzapfel, Debra Prior, Niklas Zimmer, Mzwandile Nhlangothi, Harry Kentrotas, Rob Hanney, Evelien Krijl, Michael Wattimena and Martin van der Putte.
Photography: Peer Reede, Herman van Wyk
Based in Cape Town and in the Netherlands, we describe ourselves as an "African Laboratory for unusual Site-Specific Theatre". The work combines various disciplines, objects, materials, sound and movement in a unique engagement with the unconventional sites and contexts chosen for our productions. Fabulously conceived machines, bizarre music devices and instruments, and the relationship between site, performance and audience characterise our work, which is at once enchanting and unsettling.
Our shows involve shadow puppetry, light projection and experimental musical exploits involving mechanical chain reactions as well as gymnastic gyrations and buckets of sweat.
1999: 'One City Many Cultures' Festival, Cape Town
2000: - 'Blacksmith' at The Forge, Bijou, Cape Town
2001: '@ The Power Station', National Arts Festival, Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown)
2002: 'Vee Eye Eye', Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town Festival
2002: 'Rolling Rumor', Festivals in Amersfoort, Terschelling and Amsterdam, Netherlands
