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Tribute to South African theatre great

To mark the 20th anniversary of the death of legendary South African theatre-maker Barney Simon, the Baxter Theatre Centre is restaging his riveting docudrama Born in the RSA at the National Arts Festival. Still relevant today, it reminds us of our painful past. (webremix.info)


Seminal South African theatre returns to stage

This year marks Athol Fugard's 83rd birthday and the 20th anniversary of the death of Barney Simon, two giants of South African theatre. To mark the occasion two of their great works have been restaged for a new audience, and will be performed at the National Arts Festival. (webremix.info)


Summer Stages: South Africa - Gauteng Theatre Highlights

With 2015 approaching the halfway mark, the South African theatre scene is shifting into second gear. Here is a list of some of the highlights that Gauteng theatre lovers can look forward to.

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2014 South African Theatre Retrospectives: Musical Theatre and Opera

The penultimate column in our 2014 South African Theatre Retrospectives deals with musical theatre and opera. Today we celebrate "six of the best" opera and musical theatre productions from around the country - with two honourable mentions for an outstanding cabaret and revue - having already looked at some of the best plays and dance productions of the year.

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2014 South African Theatre Retrospectives: The Plays - Part 3

It is the last day of 2014 and this final look at "six of the best" plays to appear on South African stages finishes up BroadwayWorld's review of the past year's theatre. Previous columns this year have looked at a selection of some of the plays, musicals, operas and dance productions that have appeared in major venues like the Market Theatre, the Fugard Theatre, the Artscape Theatre Centre, The Joburg Theatre and the Baxter Theatre, in fringe venues like the Rosebank Theatre, the Galloway Theatre and the Alexander Bar and Caf's Upstairs Theatre and at festivals like the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival and the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.

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2014 South African Theatre Retrospectives: The Plays - Part 1

As 2014 speeds along to its final curtain, it is once again time to reflect on some of the theatrical highlights on South Africa's stages over the past 12 months. This year, BroadwayWorld will take a look at 30 of the most compelling theatre productions that have appeared on stage around the country this year in five "six of the best" columns.

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2014 South African Theatre Retrospectives: Dance and Physical Theatre

The first column focused on six of eighteen theatre productions that BroadwayWorld will be featuring during this week, with two more columns on plays to come. A further column will also be devoted to musical theatre.

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2014 South African Theatre Retrospectives: Dance and Physical Theatre

The first column focused on six of eighteen theatre productions that BroadwayWorld will be featuring during this week, with two more columns on plays to come. A further column will also be devoted to musical theatre.

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Edinburgh Festival 2014: Race by David Mamet, Assembly George Square Studios, review: 'high energy'

David Mamet's Race is one of the key productions in this year's Assembly season of South African theatre, says Laura Barnett - but it lacks the pyrotechnics of the playwright at his best
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Tank Battle: North Africa Rolls Out (webremix.info)


A dictator for all seasons

Performers in Brett Bailey's production of 'Macbeth', set in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Monde Masimini and Thomakazi Holland When South African theatre director Brett Bailey's Exhibit B hit Berlin in 2012, it jarred.

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A dictator for all seasons

Performers in Brett Bailey's production of 'Macbeth', set in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Monde Masimini and Thomakazi Holland When South African theatre director Brett Bailey's Exhibit B hit Berlin in 2012, it jarred.

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Bailey dose of theatre prescribed

Ever since a chicken was slaughtered by sangomas on the Baxter stage during a performance of Brett Bailey's play iMumbo Jumbo 11 years ago, the playwright has been regarded as the over-the-top enfant terrible of South African theatre.

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2013 South African Theatre Retrospectives: Musical Theatre, Opera and Cabaret

The final days of December are a wonderful time to take a look back at the theatre productions seen on stage in South Africa over the past year.

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2013 South African Theatre Retrospectives: Musical Theatre, Opera and Cabaret

The final days of December are a wonderful time to take a look back at the theatre productions seen on stage in South Africa over the past year.

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2013 South African Theatre Retrospectives: South African Revivals and ...

This is the second in a series of four retrospective columns reflecting on the past year's theatre season, all of which feature comments from members of South Africa's theatre community.

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South African theatre's first black artistic director

"Towards opening night you sit with the director, getting notes, and then you look at your watch and you just know, 'My last bus has gone, I can't get back home'," he recalls.

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Proudly South African Theatre At Its Best!

[Biz-Community]Sandra Temmingh's invigorating Afrikaans interpretation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in Afrikaans, Die Kersieboord, now on at the Intimate Theatre, is proudly South African theatre at its best! (webremix.info)


Nirbhaya now moves the world’s biggest arts festival

LONDON: Nirbhaya's plight shook India. It has now moved the world. The bone-chilling story of the 23-year-old woman who was gang-raped inside a moving bus in New Delhi last December has now sent tremors at the world's most prestigious arts festival. Internationally acclaimed multiple award-winning South African theatre director and playwright Yael Farber's latest production ... (webremix.info)


South Africa: Keeping Up the Vigil

[Biz-Community]Following its premiere on the main programme at this year's Grahamstown National Arts Festival, Vigil brings together three multiple award-winning South African theatre luminaries for a season at Cape Town's Fugard Theatre. We spoke to actor and producer Graham Hopkins about his role in this black comedy. (webremix.info)


Africa: African Theatre Hits Avignon

[RFI]The African presence at the Avignon Festival is exceptional this year. Starting with a four-hour play from DRC that took 11 years to write, bringing Alsatians on stage in a South African performance and taking in artists from Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria. (webremix.info)


13 in 2013: A Look Ahead South African Theatre Attractions

Here is a look at just 13 of the productions that will take to the boards this year.

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2012 South African Theatre Retrospective: Dance and Physical Theatre

Previous columns have focused on the plays; musicals and operas; and comedy and cabaret that have been seen in South Africa this year.

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2012 South African Theatre Retrospective: Comedy and Cabaret

This final column in this retrospective feature on South African theatre in 2012 focuses on comedy and cabaret, with previous columns having taken a look at the plays; musicals and operas; and dance and physical theatre.

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Festival RISE Refugees Ex-Detainees 3rd Annual Music Arts Festival.

Saturday, December 15 Performances by: Liza Garza; Pataphysics; Lady Lash and The Band of Gypsies; Dexter feat Grrilla Step Krumpers; Hip Hop Massive Choir; Angels Voice Band; African Theatre ... (webremix.info)


Mophato Dance's double bill of african contemporary dance

Award winning dance professionals, Mophato are this Thursday and Friday spoiling theatre lovers with two dance and music inspired African theatre productions, Kgosi kgolo and Hayani. (webremix.info)


Horizonte Njinga Mbandi at International Conference

[ANGOP]Luanda -The Angolan theatre group Horizonte Njinga Mbandi participate from Thursday until July 16, in the city of Cape Town (South Africa), in International Conference on African theatre. (webremix.info)


South Africa: Play Rewrites History of South African Language

The South African theatre production 'Afrikaaps', which recently premiered in The Hague, explores the complex origins of the Afrikaans language. For the last century Afrikaans has been associated with oppression, apartheid and white farmers but the artists involved in the production want to show that the language has its real origins in the black community of South Africa. (webremix.info)


Ghana: Chief Defends Music and Dance

A traditional ruler has called for the pursuit and promotion of traditional music and arts in all forms, for national development. Nana Obutu Frimpong I, Chief of Essaso in the Asamankese Traditional Area, in the Eastern Region regretted the gradual disappearance of traditional African theatre music. (webremix.info)


South Africa: Theatre of Choices

So, it's time to draw the curtain on another Festival and reflect on what can be gleaned from this year's programme. Theatregoers have witnessed more sold-out signs than anyone can remember, heated debate and some salutary indications of the current state of South African theatre. (webremix.info)


Nigeria: Theatre And Change - Credible Elections for Good Governance Theatre And Change

The ideological contention of historical attempts towards an essentialism of art as a value product of social change within any given society, has remained from the time of the Greek Philosopher, Plato, to the Russian thinkers, Leo Tolstoy and Plekhanov, and to the erudite African theatre scholar, Wole Soyinka. The discourse extends even to the argument of this paper. (webremix.info)


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