Ashwin Singh
ASHWIN Singh’s award-winning plays have made an indelible impact on the Durban cultural landscape over the last decade.
Combining humour and pathos, his numerous works delve into myriad issues in contemporary South Africa and have moved mature, multi-cultural audiences as well as the younger generation. Continue reading
DIM-DEP: Faces of Environmental Success is a musical theatre production that is written, produced and directed by Atlas Duma and will take place at the Playhouse Opera Theatre in Durban from Thursday, June 9 to Sunday, June 12 at 7 pm each evening.
It is a two part musical theatre production that explores themes of African heritage, tribalism, the environment and the origins of soul and the blues with a special link to South African jazz and popular music. Continue reading
“To BURN with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves”, so says Leonardo , a former suitor, to a bride-to-be on her wedding day.
In this contemporary reimagining of the classical play, Blood Wedding, the unleashed torrent of passion and vendetta culminates in a dance of death combining music, movement, poetic storytelling, surrealism and brutal realism.
Under the direction of Tamantha Hammerschlag, the cast of postgraduate and undergraduate students of the Drama and Performance Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus, is joined by professionals Ntokozo Madlala, Hazel Barnes, Marcus Henning, TQ Zondi and Mpilo Nzimande.
Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding will be staged at the Hexagon Theatre at the UKZN Pietermaritzburg campus at 7 pm from June 7 to 11. Designs are by Peter Mitchell, music by Bernard Kisbey-Green and choreography by Paul Datlen and Pumelela Nqelenga
Tickets are R60 (R45) at http://www.webtickets.co.za. Inquiries 033 260 5537.
The Journeymen
THE 37th Durban International Film Festival has announced its programme, offering another exciting edition of the continent’s leading showcase of independent African and international film. It will take place at 15 venues across the city and its outlying areas from June 16 to 26. Continue reading
Don’t miss seeing Burn the Floor.
BEFORE there was Dirty Dancing… before there was Saturday Night Fever… before ballroom dancing became cool with reality TV, there was the real deal – the dancers tearing up the dance floor, in an “international style” competition since 1920.
International style competitions involve five Latin American dances and five classic ballroom dances. From this competition came a theatre production so fabulous, so hot that it’s called Burn the Floor.
Only the fanciest foot moves and tidiest twirls make it on this stage … and they’re coming the iZulu Theatre at the Sibaya Casino in Durban from June 8 to 19. Continue reading
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