The weird and the wonderful were on display in Grahamstown but there’s a new world coming, and it’s to be found at the event’s fringe.
"Wednesday Night" is directed by Princess Mhlongo, last year’s winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year for drama.
It is not often that one hears the term ‘protest theatre’ these days, but the production ‘Cadre’ provides a fitting enough justification for using it.
The National Arts Festival, due to be held at the end of June, has released details of its 2013 programme.
Cindy Swanepoel plays an unrepentant Joubert Park junkie in the reworking of Sue Pam-Grant’s play Curl Up and Dye.
One of Britain’s acclaimed writers for the stage, David Greig, has created a musical based on the murders in Norway committed by Anders Breivik.
It looks as though the stage that was for long John Kani’s has grown a foot wider to accommodate his son and his peers, writes Percy Zvomuya.
Jo’burg’s street vibe meets Japanese street theatre in the quirky world of storyteller and actor Jemma Kahn.
Nik Rabinowitz, Sylvaine Strike, Zakes Mda and other personalities from the world of the performing arts share their highlights from the year.
From minibus taxis to the Gautrain, the Goethe Institute’s SPINES festival explores public and private spaces in Jo’burg.
An English adaptation of a French theatre staple is causing a stir in Jo’burg — and has been invited to be showcased in Paris.
Brett Bailey reveals the thinking behind his site-specific interpretations of the ancient Greek tragedy Medea for European audiences.
The M&G chats to Laurent Clavel of the French Season in South Africa 2012 which sees collaboration in theatre, music and other arts.
An exciting theatre project encourages prison inmates to to creatively explore their personal quests for redemption.
South Africa and France are set to share cutting-edge artwork in a bilateral exchange spanning two years.
A seductive production from the United States uses a brotherly relationship to highlight race and class themes with universal appeal.
It is red, yellow and blue — and set to add a splash of colour to Johannesburg’s performing arts scene.
Soweto has long been a cosmopolitan centre of political and artistic life. The new Soweto Theatre complex is part of an ambitious redevelopment plan.
The R150-million Soweto Theatre complex opens this week and forms part of an ambitious development plan to revive Soweto’s cultural life.
South African pupils have joined drama students from schools on three continents, brought together via the internet to produce each other’s plays.
<i>Abnormal Loads</i> is set in that quintessentially tragic South African place in which the personal and the national intersect.
The Market Theatre’s artistic director, Malcolm Purkey, talks about the new theatre season, with historical protest plays Woza Albert!.
The writings and speeches of Mbeki (well, some of them) have become the subject of a new experimental play.
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An experimental new show examines crowd behaviour, testing the extent to which people retain their individual identity and beliefs.
Daphne Kuhn’s dream was to create a place for artists to express themselves and for audiences
to enjoy themselves.
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Princess Zinzi Mhlongo is the Standard Bank Young Artist award winner for drama in 2012. She spoke to <b>Matthew Krouse</b>.
The fact that it is acted by father and son adds extra punch to this drama about science’s
emotional fallout.
Did public opinion turn on murdered director Juliano Mer-Khamis for performing plays that went against conservative Islamic values?
Arthur Miller’s <i>Broken Glass</i> is an exploration of what happens to people when they surrender their own desires and disregard the truth.
There’s a rare opportunity to catch one of Ionesco’s strangest plays this weekend.
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