South Africa has lost a moral giant as the playwright who challenged injustice through art dies at 92
Production is a poetic, immersive elegy which turns loss at sea into theatre’s most powerful tide
Playwright Louis Viljoen fearlessly tackles a wide range of subjects in his uncompromising and challenging dramas, like the upcoming ‘The Kingmakers’.
After narrating the history of South Africa and the evolution of music on the world’s stage for 15 years, storyteller Penuel "Hope" Ndaba has died.
Since making an indelible mark on South African theatre with <em>Woza Albert!</em>, Mbongeni Ngema has become mired in controversy.
An academic study dedicated to exploring South African drama could easily be viewed as a turgid exercise in promoting scholarly jargon.
Through theatre ordinary people can address difficult issues, writes Percy Zvomuya.
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/ 25 September 2008
Deon Opperman promised his boere musical would be sensational — it’s not, writes Adriaan Basson.
The cast has been working together for three weeks and this is its first complete run-through of <i>Feast Kakhulu!</i> — a "simple story".
Playwright Mbongeni Ngema gets R22-million for a play about the potato boycott, writes Niren Tolsi.
If plays stay on stage, never making their way on to the page, South Africans could lose an important aspect of their culture. But not if Robin Malan’
Reviewer Matthew Krouse and photographer Lisa Skinner paid a visit to those exotic creatures, the Cha Cha Heels.
As a nation, South Africa has long overcome cultural cringe and the need to emulate Anglo-America for artistic validation.