The stories in <i>Mistero Buffo</i>, told through the eyes of everyday people, poke fun at the pomp and ceremony of the Roman Catholic Church.
Unwitting audience members lounging in the sunshine co-star as villagers alongside established festival performers, Bheki Mkhwane and Ellis Pearson, in this hilarious take on an impending wedding in Sinako village.
Audiences were given an intriguing look into the world of prison gangs when author-journalist Jonny Steinberg addressed about 30 people at a Winter School lecture at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown on Saturday.
Community members of the impoverished Sowetan suburb of Kliptown — the site of the signing of the Freedom Charter — have teamed up with French theatre heavyweights to highlight issues gripping the youth in South Africa’s townships.
Satirist and playwright Pieter-Dirk Uys hopes that President Thabo Mbeki will be part of the audience for his new play, Auditioning Angels, which has premièred at the 2003 National Arts Festival.
The "alternative" stock exchange announced in Johannesburg last week could prove to be a damp squib unless the JSE Securities Exchange reaches deep into its pockets, analysts have cautioned.
Jacques Kallis’s second hundred in two days was the cornerstone of South Africa’s 46-run win over Zimbabwe in the triangular series one-day international here on Sunday.
Two tragedies, one an act of God and the other from the hands of wicked men, have sent a pair of old North African foes into a trembling embrace.
South Africa is in danger of being excluded from a summit on peace and development in the Great Lakes where it has brokered the two most important peace deals.
Shagun Butani is rehearsing in her hotel room where she runs through her intricate steps and movements. She wears a long cotton slip over a leotard and stockings and moves around softly on her bare feet.