We Didn’t Come To Hell For The Croissants: 7 Deadly New Stories for Consenting Adults stars Jemma Kahn and Roberto Pombo.
THE Hilton Arts Festival will be playing host to two Kamishibai performances by the super-talented Jemma Kahn.
Kamishibai, or paper drama, is an ancient Japanese form of street theatre, used for centuries by monks and itinerant storytellers to tell morality tales to a largely illiterate audience. Continue reading
The multi-genre saxophone quartet SAXIT! will be doing music education workshops and live performances in Durban as part of a nationwide tour. Continue reading
Cape Town stand-up comedy duo, Stuart Cairns and Westley Cockrell, are bringing their show, The Plothole, to Seabrookes’ Theatre at Durban High School, St Thomas Road, Musgrave at 8 pm on Friday, August 26 and 27. Continue reading
A MULTI-MEDIA art installation, which wowed critics and festival-goers at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, will be staged at the Hilton Arts Festival next month, writes THELUVVIE.COM’s Estelle Sinkins. Continue reading
CELEBRATED concert pianist, Christopher Duigan, will be performing the music of Frédéric Chopin at St Andrew’s Church in Greenpoint, Cape Town at 3 pm on Saturday, August 20.
He will be playing the composer’s Ballade No 3, waltzes in E-flat, A minor and B minor, three Etudes from Op. 10, Scherzo No. 1, and a selection of Nocturnes. Continue reading
A scene from Chapter 2, Section 9.
Following its successful runs at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown and at the Wits 969 Festival the critically acclaimed Ovation Award-winning Chapter 2 Section 9 has been described as “brilliant” and a production that “every South African who cares about the freedoms enshrined in Chapter 2, Section 9, should see.” (Mike Loewe, The Critter).
With two more runs scheduled at the Pop Arts Centre in Maboneng, Johannesburg on August 11, 12, 13 and 14, and as part of Vavasati, International Women’s Festival on August 17, 18 and 19 at the Arena, State Theatre in Pretoria, audiences will have the opportunity to catch one of these performances. Continue reading
HEAD down to the Centre for Visual Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus to view Fabric of the Universe from August 9 to 11. The event opens at 6.30 pm on August 8 at the Jack Heath Gallery in Ridge Road. Continue reading
DURBAN theatre practioners, Emma Durden and Roel Twijnstra, launched their book, Theatre Production in South Africa at Think!Fest, during the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Ashraf Johaardien. Photo: Jan Potgieter
Playwright and arts administrator, Ashraf Johaardien, has been appointed as the executive producer of the National Arts Festival, a newly created role aimed at taking South Africa’s premier arts event boldly into the future. Continue reading
Copy Dog, in association with The Playhouse Company, presents Sweetie Darling, a new one-man stage comedy by multiple award-winning playwright-director, Clinton Marius (Lollipop Lane, The Fantastical Flea Circus, B!*ch Stole My Doek), from July 19 to 24 at the Loft Theatre. Continue reading
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