“A fiercely beautiful historical pageant by the South African artist William Kentridge commemorates a million Africans who died in World War I.”
— THE NEW YORK TIMES, CRITIC'S PICK
“The piece unfolds like a fever dream. At any one moment, multiple events are occurring onstage. Watching it, you want to be everywhere at once.”
— The New Yorker
“On every level, The Head & the Load is a feast.”
— Time Out New York *****
“Like everyone else there I was utterly engrossed and fabulously transported. ”
— The Telegraph London *****
“No one really knows how many Africans perished but it was in the hundreds of thousands. Kentridge et al have created a masterpiece to mark this shaming tragedy.”
— EVENING STANDARD LONDON *****
“William Kentridge’s piece about Africans in WWI is electrifying”
