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Umuntu: a celebration of Blackness

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image001OVER the past two months, the University of KwaZulu-Natal Drama and Performance students have been working on a devised theatre piece that, at its core, is a celebration of Blackness.

In close collaboration with the cast, recently published playwright, Masters student, and multi-award-winning director, Kline Smith, draws captivating performances from over thirty dancers, poets, musicians and actors in Umuntu.

The work will be performed in the Hexagon Studio Theatre at 6 pm on May 5, 6 and 7. Tickets are R40 (R25 for students) at the door. Continue reading →

Contemporary dance to quicken the pulses in Pretoria

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Ras Tindo and Roseline Keppler perform in Standard Bank Young Artist winner for dance, Luyanda Sidiya’s (director and choreographer) production, Siva (Seven),at the 2015 National Arts Festival. Siva is performed by the Vuyani Dance Theatre. (Photo: CUEPIX/Niamh Walsh-Vorster)

A STIRRING music and dance spectacle awaits audiences when Vuyani Dance Theatre stages Luyanda Sidiya’s acclaimed theatrical work SIVA (Seven) at the South African State Theatre from May 2 to 14. Continue reading →

Double bill of edgy work by contemporary dancer, Fabrice Lambert at DUT

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Fabrice Lambert in Gravité. Photo: L’Expérience Harmaat/Alain Julien

THE French Institute of South Africa and the Alliance Française of Durban are presenting a performance by Fabrice Lambert, an internationally-acclaimed French artist who combines dance, movement, choreography, and installation.

He will be in Durban as part of his African tour where he will perform his two pieces Gravité and D’Eux #2 as a double-bill at the Courtyard Theatre at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) for one performance only, on Saturday, May 7 at 7 pm. Continue reading →

Spike – The Celebration of a Madman at Kearsney

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bfi-00m-huzKEARSNEY College in Botha’s Hill is hosting performances of Spike – The Celebration of a Madman at 7 pm from May 3 to 5.

This entertaining multi-media production pays tribute to Spike Milligan, the godfather of British comedy, by touching on old favourites with The Goons as well as excerpts from his war diaries.

The shows on Tuesday and Wednesday will be cinema-style, with the Thursday performance in a supper theatre format. Refreshments will be one sale and picnic baskets can also be taken.

Tickets are R50 (R30 students and pensioenrs). Booking is through Computicket.

Applause for KickstArt’s celebration of Sondheim

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From left: Puppeteer Brandon Moulder with Milky White the cow, Jack (Graeme Wicks), the Baker’s Wife (Jessica Sole) and The Baker (Bryan Hiles). Photos: Val Adamson

DURBAN theatre company, KickstArt, walked away with three Naledi Awards in Johannesburg recently for their dark and brooding staging of Stephen Sondheim’s blood-drenched classic Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Meanwhile, at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College campus in Durban, the company is hosting its first production of 2016, another iconic Stephen Sondheim production, the musical fairy tale parable for grown-ups: Into the Woods. Continue reading →