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 / Wordfest
Edge of the Table: Cape Flats youths tell their moving life histories. Human Rights Media Centre.
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Main / Music Theatre
Musical Director/Pianist: Garth Tavares
Who am I? Where am I going? Who am I going to become? These are classic coming-of-age questions where moving forward means embracing an unknown future. But do we want to know? Do we want ...
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Main / Film
A tribute to women as creators, goddesses and survivors of prejudice. The "On the Creative Power of Women" programme is dedicated to the two actresses Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) and Lena Nyman (I am Curious Yellow) who died ...
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Fringe / Lecture
Edwin Jackson. Flight of the Moth. Gripping account of world travel in search of enlightenment.
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Main / Think!Fest
Bridging the literacy and digital divide: The experience of the Puku initiative The vast majority of children in South Africa, and indeed throughout Africa, lack quality resources for both education and recreation. Those who do have the means and access ...
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Fringe / Physical Theatre
Enough? is a 'one-man' multimedia production that looks at the aftermath of losing a loved one. Joey lives with the regret and wonders 'why?'
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Main / Think!Fest
In South Africa as many as one in 100 people are diagnosed with epilepsy. The biggest problem that people with epilepsy face is not the medical treatment of their condition, but stigma and misconceptions associated with the condition that lead ...
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Fringe / Comedy
In 1782 an Englishman is wrecked on the East African Coast and forced to integrate with an eccentric local tribe. Complications arise when he is hailed by the village as a messiah, sent by the ancestors to bring rain. Based ...
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Main / Jazz
Excess Luggage showcases the uncommon line-up of Hammond B3 organ, piano and drums and combines the groovy feel of an organ trio with the harmonic and melodic style of the piano trio. On piano is Vigleik Storaas, one of the ...
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Main / Jazz
We open this year’s Festival with a suitably powerful collaboration between an unorthodox Norwegian trio and two of South Africa’s jazz stars. Excess Luggage showcases the uncommon line-up of Hammond B3 organ, piano and drums and combines the groovy feel ...
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Main / Film
aka Einaym Pkuhot
Courtesy of Video Vision
An extremely controversial Israeli film on a homosexual relationship in an Orthodox Jewish household, the film was screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. Aaron, a respected butcher and a ...
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