Echoes In Clay is the title of the Ceramics Southern Africa KZN Regional Showcase exhibition, which is being staged at the KZNSA Gallery in Bulwer Road, Glenwood, Durban until July 17. Continue reading
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Catch Erin Fourie at the Maritzburg Musicians Club
Erin Fourie
Maritzburg residents are being asked to support acting and singing super star, Erin Fourie, to help her get her show to the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
She will be performing at the Maritzburg Musicians Club at La Casa in Quarry Road, Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday, June 28, to take her student theatre piece #SirensRock to the festival. Continue reading
Hexagon to host previews of National Arts Festival shows
Sugar stars Nkanyiso Mazibuko and Nompilo Jili. Photo: Supplied
THE Hexagon Studio Theatre in the Hexagon Theatre complex at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus is holding a preview of two productions – #SirensRock and Sugar Sugar – which are heading to the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
The shows can be seen at 6 pm and 7 pm on Friday, July 1. Tickets R40 per show available at the door only. Continue reading
Join Winnie the Pooh and friends for an adventure in the Hundred Acre Wood
Winnie the Pooh (Rowan Bartlett) and Rabbit (Anthony Stonier). Photo: Val Adamson
KickstArt Theatre Company presents Winnie the Pooh – a colourful and faithful adaptation of AA Milne’s classic children’s story – at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Howard College campus in Durban over the July school holidays. Continue reading
Enjoy a special fundraising performance of ‘This is the Seventies’ at the Hexagon
THERE will be a special fundraising performance of This is the Seventies at the Hexagon Dive Theatre on Wednesday, June 15 at 7pm for 7.30 pm. Money raised from the event will be used to help fund the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s entry into the student festival at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Continue reading
Blood Wedding at the Hexagon Theatre
TQ Zondi, Sade Wagner and Francis Mennigke
Sade Wagner, TQ Zondi and Francis Mennigke
“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.
Join Tonya Koenderman for her one-woman show, Born to Diva, at the Hexagon
CABRARET artist, Tonya Koenderman, brings her new one-woman show, Born To Diva, to the Hexagon Dive Theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus on May 27 and 28 at 7 pm for 7.30 pm (doors open at 6.45 pm). Continue reading
Join Aaron McIlroy in a comedy masterclass
STAND by for a fresh new laugh-a-line theatre experience from South Africa’s ‘Master of Mirth!, Aaron McIlroy (Abbamaniacs, The Loser, The Ranga), at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre in Durban from May 19 to June 5.
In Comedy Masterclass Aaron delves into the science that underpins the world’s oldest coping mechanism, a Sense of Humour.
Co-written by Aaron and Patrick Kenny, and directed by Kenny, Comedy Masterclass is a surreal, comedic rollercoaster ride into the world of laughter, where the rules are subjective and what one person finds funny another may cringe at! Continue reading
Bass showcase at UKZN’s Centre for Jazz and Popular Music
Ildo Nandja. Photo by Fiona Johnsson
THE Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the Howard College campus on University of KwaZulu-Natal is hosting a bass showcase on Wednesday, May 18 at 6 pm. Continue reading
Cross-cultural evening at the Tatham Art Gallery
Kristin Ng-Yang’s multi-media Bird/Fish installation will take centre stage at a fundraiser at the Tatham Art Gallery on May 20. Photo: Supplied
THE Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg will be playing host to Bird/Fish, a cross-cultural fundraising event, featuring visual arts, music and dance on Friday, May 20 at 6.30 pm for 7 pm. Continue reading
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