Theatre gems from across South Africa get top billing at Hilton Arts Festival

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

THE brilliantly innovative, heartbreaking and wickedly funny musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch is one of the must-see productions at this year’s Hilton Arts Festival, which runs at Hilton College from September 15 to September 17. Continue reading

Head to the Hexagon Theatre to see the dark satire, ‘The Last Outpost’

Last Outpost Sabelo, Sbusiso

The Last Outpost stars Sabelo Cele and Sbusiso Mpendulo Nzama.

Running at the Hexagon Theatre on the University of KwaZulu-Pietermaritzburg campus from Thursday, May 25 to Saturday, May 27 at 7pm is The Last Outpost.

Written by UKZN MA candidate Francis Mennigke, a Standard Bank Ovation Award winner for his original script MORGUE in 2014, and directed by Rhodes University graduate, Josh Martin, this dark satire argues that today, 23 years after South Africa’s first democratic election, colonialism still exists.

But rather than imperial forts and army barracks, some of these spaces are psychological. Continue reading