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Featured Artists: Jabu Siphika, Zinhle Nzama and Sifiso Khumalo
Company: FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY
Down to the Marrow is a hard-hitting and beautiful dance theatre journey into the interior landscape of identity. This work looks at the echoes of ancestral Zulu traditions and how contemporary urban black lives negotiate a sense of self.
Featured Artists: Roxanne Blaise, Johann Vermaak
Writer: Juliet Jenkin
Directed and written by: Siphesihle Ndaba | Cast: Siyabulela Javu, Anelisiwe Mahamba, Lebogang Fisher | Company: Siphesihle Ndaba
Written and directed by: Kei-Ella Loewe | Featured Artists: Donna Cormack-Thomson, Cameron Robertson | Company: Avant Guava Productions
Language: Pedi Eng | Director: Mxolisi Masilela and Koketso Mashedi | Choreographer: Mothusi Motseko | Cast: Mogomotsi Mampe, Lerato Mokwana, Mxolisi Ngema and Thando Maduna | Company: Youth Channel Group
MEDUMO YABARWA is the beauty of African song and dance. As Africans, we celebrate through song and dance, and in this piece we are mourning the death of the greatest hero King Mampuru and we celebrate the return of his long lost bones.
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Lebogang Mogashoa in TINSTUFF. Directed by Hayleigh Evans / Photo: Jan Potgieter
Director: Jenine Collocott | Written By: Nick Warren | Cast: James Cairns, Taryn Bennett, Jaques De Silva | Company: Contagious Theatre Co
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.
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.