Productions A-Z
A listing of all the productions at this year's National Arts Festival, organised alphabetically by production title. Click on the letter below to jump to the relevant page. To search for a production by something other than title, go here.Event
Fringe / Lecture
D S Matjila. Bodibeng jwa Matlhomola. (Setswana). Mixed genre novel re issues in SA & beyond.
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Main / Music
Featuring: Francois Swart (Bass) Patrick Craig (Beatbox, Baritone) Graham Hildyard (Baritone) Shiraz Jogee (Tenor) Hannes Otto (Tenor) Jeremy Du Plessis (Tenor) Yati Nkhumalo (Tenor) Nathan Groener (Tenor) Paul Morrissey (Tenor)
D-Seven: A Taste of A Capella is a fresh, reworked ...
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Main / Theatre
Winner of the Amsterdam Fringe Jury Award in 2009
In the early morning there we are standing at the packed car I borrowed from my parents. Sophie with her sleepy eyes and her pillow under her arm, and me ...
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Fringe / Dance
Dance Spectrum is an ensemble of ballet, contemporary dance, jazz and Spanish flamenco performed by talented learners from the National School of Arts Dance Department. This showcase combines pieces performed at the school's Festival of Fame in Johannesburg.
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Fringe / Dance
A boy is faced with problems because of a brawl between his Khoisan and Zulu spirit. The spirits agree that the boy chooses his path as a Christian. The story is told through dance and narration, lots of energy and ...
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Fringe / Wordfest
Darryl David. 101 Country Churches of South Africa. Superb photos & text.
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Fringe / Cabaret / Revue
Relish the rich, 5-voice vocal group sounds of Cape Town-based Track 5 with virtuoso pianist Ramon Alexander. Prepare to be blown away by exciting arrangements of well-known jazz standards by various composers, with special reference to Duke Ellington, sung A ...
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Fringe / Wordfest
David Beresford. Truth is Stranger than Fiction. Shattering exposésof Vorster, Zuma & others.
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Fringe / Comedy
David Newton is back... Winner of the National Arts Festival's Best Comedian Award 2009, David Newton returns with his fourth comedy special! In Dysfunctional Newton invites you deeper inside his mind... but asks you to please not touch anything!! "One ...
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Fringe / Dance
"The dance piece, according to director Eshdey Diphae, is inspired by his sexuality, and memoirs of his life... In his quest to understand his sexuality and to become comfortable in his own skin, Diphae has developed a carefree attitude and ...
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Fringe / Dance
This production refers to social movements and environmental issues relevant to our present time. We create present time gestures, imaginations, memories and movement in a physical dance form with a contemporary style. Our creativity looks at what is happening in ...
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Main / Theatre
Set Designer Nadya Cohen
Costume Designer Noluthando Lobese
Lighting Designer Wesley France
Sound Designer Kanif Sebright
Stage Manager Thulani Mngomezulu
"It's riveting theatre. It's the kind of story that makes you question, think, argue, debate and ultimately decide that there ...
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Main / Jazz
Vocalist Deborah Tanguy, based in Paris, is a leading young jazz and improvising music artist in contemporary France. She is an accomplished and award-winning performer in a variety of musical styles, including mainstream and contemporary jazz, funk, big band and ...
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Fringe / Comedy
The musical comedian, Deep Fried Man, winner of Best Newcomer at the 2011 Comics Choice awards, invites you into his bizarre world for his debut one-man show. Combining original songs, skits, stand-up and uniquely South African parody, this is a ...
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Fringe / Comedy
The legendary show that shot David Newton to comedy stardom is back for one last time! "Normally the subject of sex is dealt with in a half-hearted way, with Newton you get the Full Monty...There is absolutely no way to ...
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Fringe / Comedy
A black/white comedy... about blacks who think like whites... told by a black guy... who sounds white. There's a new generation of black people who don't bitch about the 'struggle', can swim, dogs so like them and they didn't vote ...
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Main / Dance
Artistic Director: Deborah Baddoo
Choreographer: Gregory Maqoma
Composer: Steve Marshall
Set and lighting design: Declan Randall
Production Manager: Anthony Osborne
Costume design: Abigail Hammond
Rehearsal director: Bawren Tavaziva / Sade Alleyne
Photographer and film artist: Barry Lewis
Dancers: Sade Alleyne ...
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Main / Think!Fest
In essence, humans have two births. After nine months of pregnancy, a mother gives birth to a child’s physical self. But over a period of three years and through three distinct phases, primary caregivers give birth to a child’s Real ...
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Main / Music
Violins: Samson Diamond & Kabelo Motlhomi
Violas: Elbe Roberts & Kate Moore (Tchaikovsky)
Violoncellos: Maciej Lacny & Kutlwano Masote
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Franz Schubert (1797-1828): String Quintet in C major, D. 956 [Allegro ma non troppo; Adagio; Scherzo. Presto-Trio. Andante sostenuto; Allegretto] ...
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Fringe / Lecture
Did King James really write the KJV? And other conspiracies. Paul Walters, Emeritus Professor of English, Rhodes University)
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Fringe / Theatre
This production is set at Nelson's dinner table which he has painstakingly prepared for Bantu. But Bantu has the audacity not to pitch, sending expensive food to waste. Hungry children look in, gathered to enjoy the wild berries growing on ...
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Fringe / Comedy
"A triumph..."- Another 48 Hours. "...one of the funniest actors in the country"- Sunday Times. "...in 'n klas van sy eie" - Die Burger. " I thought I was having an asthma attack I was laughing so hard." -Megan's Head ...
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Fringe / Physical Theatre
Last seen wearing? Hair? Eyes? Height? Age? Sex? This production is one of the three pieces for Intranciet, performed by Masters' students from the Rhodes Drama Department.
Intranceit: Transmit, transform and transport. Rhodes University final year Master's students, Gavin Krastin, ...
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Fringe / Dance
The Simunye Women's Cultural Club comes from Bubesi Location in Matatiele. It was formed in 1989 with the aim of embracing their cultural activities and keeping the women busy. The group is involved in community activities such as weddings and ...
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Main / Jazz
Don Laka (piano) needs no introduction to South African audiences, and he has been a performer, composer and producer for nearly four decades, in that time building the Kwaai-Jazz brand - an eclectic musical fusion of classical, traditional, modern and ...
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Fringe / Theatre
In front of the door stands the Doorkeeper. He guards the passage and holds the key. May I enter..? Multi award-winnings between the collaborators, Ubom! and Jori Snell of Baba Yaga Theatre, ensures an enthralling theatrical experience, so step through ...
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Fringe / Family - Children's Theatre
Come on an incredible ocean adventure with Bogie and Ned and meet fantastical creatures on the way. Pirates, sharks and sea-monsters all come to life in brilliant ultra-violet colours. Innovative props and staging make this an unforgettable journey for young ...
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Fringe / Comedy
Extreme, fast-paced and suitable for all ages! Informative, wacky, yet bizarre. An amazing journey into the world of the subconscious. Crazy reactions from volunteers who Dr Stef helps on stage. Regularly sold out. The funniest show you will ever see! ...
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Main / Think!Fest
Dr Trudy Meehan questions traditional, everyday notions of identity and their impact on those designated as ‘mad’ in our society by using the Mark Hipper-Tower Hospital Art Project, a weekly art group/ research project run with in-patient mental health service ...
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Fringe / Theatre
Nicholas and May lead a blissful life on an island paradise, neither quite sure how they got there, until one day a stranger arrives to break the news. A touching, romantic story inspired by the seascape paintings of Jack Vettriano. ...
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The exhibition will feature ethic people in acrylic as well as some very abstract paintings!
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Main / Film
This film, which has attracted both critical and complimentary attention, is a meditation on violence, memory and the human condition in post-colonial Africa. Film-maker Kwena Mokwena uses the ideas of Frantz Fanon to think about the contemporary situation in Freetown, ...
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Fringe / Comedy
Four of 031's best alternative stand-ups, Glen Bo (Edinburgh Fringe), Gareth Woods (5FM Comedy Winner), Jem Atkins (Best New Durban Act 2009) and Dusty Rich (Finalist: Nando's Showdown) take on the task of changing perceptions of coastal living: tales of ...
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Fringe / Comedy
Four of 031's best alternative stand-ups, Glen Bo (Edinburgh Fringe), Gareth Woods (5FM Comedy Winner), Jem Atkins (Best New Durban Act 2009) and Dusty Rich (Finalist: Nando's Showdown) take on the task of changing perceptions of coastal living: tales of ...
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Fringe / Music
Just when you think it is rock, it changes into hip hop, back to jazz. You feel it kicking your ass, hit you like lightning and gives you butterflies in your stomach. Not suitable for herbal tea drinkers, cry-babies and ...
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Fringe / Music
Just when you think it is rock, it changes into hip hop, back to jazz. You feel it kicking your ass, hit you like lightning and gives you butterflies in your stomach. Not suitable for herbal tea drinkers, cry-babies and ...
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Main / Film
In the vast Namib wastes a stranger in a long black coat hitches lifts along the endless road. Soon the wasteland is littered with corpses and the last policeman (Zakes Mokae) in the small town of Bethany is faced with ...
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