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 / Family - Children's Theatre
Come on a lion hunt around the Cathedral and see if you can find the twenty plus animals, including some mice, depicted there. The take part in a fun quiz to test your knowledge of biblical refences to animals!
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Fringe / Music
"Manipulating guitar strings so they converse in a new language, a psychedelic one-man anti-folk jamming machine" - Cape Argus "Rupturing the conventional One-Man Guitar/Vocals Mould" - Mail & Guardian "Wizardry, the definition of an artist" - Levi's Music Mag "Spellbinding, ...
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Fringe / Music
"Manipulating guitar strings so they converse in a new language, a psychedelic one-man anti-folk jamming machine" - Cape Argus "Rupturing the conventional One-Man Guitar/Vocals Mould" - Mail & Guardian "Wizardry, the definition of an artist" - Levi's Music Mag "Spellbinding, ...
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Fringe / Dance
The Gauteng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation promotes artistic excellence and creative endeavour by affording dance groups a platform to showcase their talent at the National Arts Festival. The Department conducts showcases around the Province to identify talent ...
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Main / Jazz
Gavin Minter has been performing professionally for nearly three decades and his warm voice has graced the nation's airwaves regularly during that time, singing all types of music. His first big break came with the pop band Wired to the ...
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Fringe / Wordfest
Geoff Haresnape, Rob Berold, Aerial Poets, EC writers then Open Mike.
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Fringe / Wordfest
Getaway. 21 Years of African Travel Writing. Selected articles from premier outdoor magazine.
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Main / Film
The avant-garde filmmaking duo of Dionysos Andronis (who was a Festival guest in 2007) and CA CA CA have already contributed two fine profiles to the Festival programme - By Any Old Light (on the meeting of Peter Whitehead and ...
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Fringe / Music
The Urban Lounge makes a move to Bots and promises to be the hot new venue at this year's Fest with live performances throughout the day and gigs going late into the night. For the sessions listed below, book for ...
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Fringe / Music
The Urban Lounge makes a move to Bots and promises to be the hot new venue at this year's Fest with live performances throughout the day and gigs going late into the night. For the sessions listed below, book for ...
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Fringe / Music
The Urban Lounge makes a move to Bots and promises to be the hot new venue at this year's Fest with live performances throughout the day and gigs going late into the night. For the sessions listed below, book for ...
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Fringe / Music
The Urban Lounge makes a move to Bots and promises to be the hot new venue at this year's Fest with live performances throughout the day and gigs going late into the night. For the sessions listed below, book for ...
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Fringe / Music
The Urban Lounge makes a move to Bots and promises to be the hot new venue at this year's Fest with live performances throughout the day and gigs going late into the night. For the sessions listed below, book for ...
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Fringe / Music
The Urban Lounge makes a move to Bots and promises to be the hot new venue at this year's Fest with live performances throughout the day and gigs going late into the night. For the sessions listed below, book for ...
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Fringe / Music
The Urban Lounge makes a move to Bots and promises to be the hot new venue at this year's Fest with live performances throughout the day and gigs going late into the night. For the sessions listed below, book for ...
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Fringe / Music
The Urban Lounge makes a move to Bots and promises to be the hot new venue at this year's Fest with live performances throughout the day and gigs going late into the night. For the sessions listed below, book for ...
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Fringe / Music
The Urban Lounge makes a move to Bots and promises to be the hot new venue at this year's Fest with live performances throughout the day and gigs going late into the night. For the sessions listed below, book for ...
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Fringe / Music
The Urban Lounge makes a move to Bots and promises to be the hot new venue at this year's Fest with live performances throughout the day and gigs going late into the night. For the sessions listed below, book for ...
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Fringe / Music
Ginsburg & Herman's cinematic-folk music combines expansive musical soundscapes on the one hand, with articulate lyrical songwriting on the other. The result is a seamless show that is at once visually compelling and stylistically unique.
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Fringe / Spiritfest
A powerful and exciting account of the man who risked everything, including his life, to get the Bible to the common people.
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Fringe / Physical Theatre
Going Back to my Roots is a play about a man who is searching for the right belief to belong to. He is caught in the middle of two contrasting beliefs and is indecisive about the choice. In the middle ...
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Fringe / Music
Gospel Africa brings to the Festival leading artists in performances of Gospel Music; which is the biggest selling music genre in South Africa today. During the NAF it also runs a Gospel Music Festival; which develops the capacity of young ...
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Main / Music
Liesl Stoltz - Flute
Catherine Foxcroft - Piano
Hilary Paterson - Oboe
Jenny Brand - Clarinet
Boris Mohr - Horn
Penny Fraser - Bassoon
The Grahamstown Sextet showcases a taste of the musical talent and energy that can be found ...
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Fringe / Wordfest
Greg Ruiters & others. The Fate of the Eastern Cape. Scholarly look at past, present & future issues.
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Fringe / Dance
Heart-wrenching, rib-cracking, seat-clenching, raw power, passion, poetry and dance. Including a new style of dance: tribal belly dance fused with gumboot and physical theatre. The fiery combination of styles, costume and colour is something to behold. Dark comedy, gypsy tribal ...
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Fringe / Music
One of the finest acoustic guitarists to ever emerge from the South Africa music industry, Guy Buttery is something of a national treasure. This travelling whirlwind has toured across four continents in over a dozen countries alongside some of the ...
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Main / Music
“Buttery’s avant-garde world music is exceptionally beautiful – from composition to technique to atmospherics – and his latest release, “Fox Hill Lane” is one of the most adventurous acoustic recordings in recent memory.” – Guitar Player Magazine, USA
2010 was ...
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Main / Think!Fest
Gwen Ansell: Building studios or building networks? Supporting innovation in the South African music industry South Africa’s unique creative industries currently face challenges from global players, new technologies, and the limited resources of the domestic market, but there is very ...
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