A Welsh dancer and a Zulu king walk into a colonial war... and it's gorgeous.
The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a young Welshman are all voiced by actors to make AMASHINGA a beautiful and epic explanation of the British invasion of the Zulu Kingdom in 1879.
Direction
Singleton turns dusty archives into living, breathing tragedy.
Production
Stunning animation makes colonial maps feel genuinely menacing.
Director
Bex Singleton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
William Bracewell is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet—his physicality was motion-captured to create the Welsh observer's uneasy, voyeuristic movements through Zulu territory.
The title 'Amashinga' refers to the Zulu regimental system but also translates roughly to 'the unbeatable'—a bitter irony given the eventual British victory and Cetshwayo's capture.
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