Director: Jenine Collocott | Written By: Nick Warren | Cast: James Cairns, Taryn Bennett, Jaques De Silva | Company: Contagious Theatre Co
The Old Man & The Sea
Igshaan Adams: When Dust Settles
Igshaan Adams is this year’s Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art. For this inaugural exhibition of WHEN DUST SETTLES, Adams presents an eclectic and multi-sensory large-scale installation, bringing together aspects of sculpture, textiles, found objects, furniture and performance to create an immersive environment in the Monument’s Gallery in the Round.
Green Man Flashing
Written By: Mike van Graan
Featured Artists: Litha Bam, Michelle Douglas, David Dennis, Gina Shmukler and Sechaba Morojele
Company: Auto and General Theatre on the Square and MVG Productions
Green Man Flashing is a fast-paced political thriller written in a filmic style. It explores themes of personal and political violence, as well as the lengths people will go to in the name of greater political good. All this is played out against the backdrop of a young democracy still dealing with its racist history, but where violence against women is of national crisis proportions.
The Room with Three Windows
Featured Artists: Donna Cormack-Thomson, Cameron Robertson
Company: Avant Guava Productions
What’s holding you back? What are you afraid of? For Gwendoline, it’s everything. A woman with metal teeth, brittle bones and a quacking heart, she lives behind-the-scenes. Watching her life unfold as if it’s a movie, in love with a man she cannot speak to, buying lipstick she never wears. Just as she feels she might disappear completely, turn to dust on her couch, she has an epiphany. She must climb to the top of the world, or die.
Taking Flight
Director: Kirsten Harris | Created by: the Cast & Director | Cast: Ameeera Patel, Katlego Letsholonyana, Jaques de Silva, Ryan Dittmann, Tebogo Machaba | Company: ZikkaZimba Productions and Hijinks Theatre
El Blanco
James Cairns in the one-man show EL BLANCO.
Director: Jenine Collocott | Written By: Gwydion Beynon | Featured Artist: James Cairns | Company: Contagious Theatre
African Gothic
Director: Alby Michaels | Written By: Reza de Wet | Company: UJ Arts & Culture Faculty of Art | Cast: Sussie Cilliers – Liezl de Kok, Frikkie Cilliers – Zak Hendricks, Mr Grové – Mpho Osei-Tutu, Alina – Olive Strachan
After a year-long interdisciplinary process, UJ Arts & Culture Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) presents Reza de Wet’s iconic African Gothic (translation of Diepe Grond).
All images: Jan Potgieter/http://www.stagefocus.co.za
Hatched – 2018 Featured Artist Mamela Nyamza
Choreographer: Mamela Nyamza | Featured Artists: Mamela Nyamza, Amkele Mandla | Company: Mamela Nyamza
This year’s Featured Artist Mamela Nyamza reflects on her life as a mother and as an artist in her work HATCHED, an autobiographical work that seeks to convey the deeply personal and challenging issues of culture, tradition and a woman’s evolving sexuality within the customary rites and rituals of marriage. It grapples with questions of identity, highlighted by the dualities of her life – a mother and a performer; a South African and a dancer. All photos: Jan Potgieter
Circus Schönberg
Asko|Schönberg, Grammy-nominated and the leading ensemble for new music based in the Netherlands, takes a plunge into the exciting and diverse world of 20th century musical works. A show, a lecture, a performance, a conversation. Under the guidance of a ringmaster, the musicians of Asko|Schönberg take the audience on a search for notes.
The Little Prince – Kwasha! Theatre Company
