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
Main / Student Theatre
The earth cries, her children die. 'Let there be light' - refracted and broken by the invisible darkness enveloping her epidermis, a primitive future seems fantastical to the natural. We press play and dance to the silence of our pauses ...
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Main / Jazz
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is South Africa's top-selling musical group, having released more than 65 albums since their 1970 recording debut. They have been nominated for Grammy awards a phenomenal thirteen times, winning three Grammys for Best Traditional World Album, and ...
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Main / Think!Fest
The Legal Resource Centre presents Land Reform and Rural Land Development: a debate chaired by Judge Dennis Davis
“In South Africa, land is not only one of the most defining political and development issues, but also perhaps the most ...
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Main / Theatre
Lighting Design by Kenny Boloko
Set Design by Sasha Ehlers
When Camellia, an ageing white prostitute, loses her sex appeal in an upmarket brothel in Rosebank, Johannesburg, and causes her clients to run for cover, she is forced to migrate ...
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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
Laurie Levine is a singer-songwriter carving out an original niche in contemporary folk music. Her exciting blend of American roots music and the 'Nu-Folk' sound has earned her critical acclaim and a growing audience. She has twice been nominated for ...
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Main / Think!Fest
Sisonke Msimang explores where South Africa is headed in this thought-provoking talk. Msimang’s expertise is in promoting civil society participation in human rights, gender, and HIV and Aids policy and law. She has seventeen years’ experience as a researcher, facilitator and ...
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Fringe / Theatre
This is an award-winning play about a Pedi illiterate man who left his family for the city in pursuit of a job (Lekgolwa is a Sepedi word for a person who has left home for an industrial area to work ...
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Fringe / Family - Children's Theatre
Puppet World presents a puppet theatre production of the captivating story of a lion cub bending the rules and finding that love really does conquer all. Fun filled participation and enchanting puppets ensure an interlude of sheer delight for young ...
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Main / Think!Fest
The Landmark Foundation presents Leopards of the Cape by Kate Muller
Landmark Foundation has rescued 40 leopards since 2004 and GPScollared 22. This project, based in the Eastern and Western Cape, has become one of the largest studies of ...
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Main / Think!Fest
Les Aupiais is a guest presenter and director on South Africa’s most influential investigative news programme, Carte Blanche. A former bureau chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, editor of award-winning Sunday Life, quarterly magazine Icon and currently editor of awardwinning magazine Private ...
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Main / Theatre
Winner of the 2010 Amsterdam Fringe Jury Award
Life is too Good to be True explores the role of truth in our present day (pop) culture. Starting as a portrayal of the infamous young American journalist Stephen Glass this ...
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Fringe / Dance
Participants in the Tsoho Community Dance Festival were chosen, after four days of workshops and performances, to form part of this exciting showcase of dance. The Life Wire dance production incorporates a visually stunning array of diverse dance styles, including ...
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Main / Film
COURTESY OF NU METRO
Oliver Schmitz (South African director of Mapantsula and Highjack Stories) has been living in Germany for some time, carving a very prolific niche there. With Life, Above All he returns to South Africa with a touching ...
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Main / Dance
Lime Light on Rites is a dance work that explores how the media, through marketing and publicity, exploits people’s emotions. Death is big business in this country. There is great social pressure to have big funerals which is compounded through ...
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Fringe / Music
Picking up the pace, Live @ EQ, edges you toward a hellova good night out! Featuring a bit of everything, these jam sessions are guaranteed to set you up for a great night out. Book for Live @ EQ.
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Fringe / Music
Picking up the pace, Live @ EQ, edges you toward a hellova good night out! Featuring a bit of everything, these jam sessions are guaranteed to set you up for a great night out. Book for Live @ EQ.
Arctic ...
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Fringe / Music
Picking up the pace, Live @ EQ, edges you toward a hellova good night out! Featuring a bit of everything, these jam sessions are guaranteed to set you up for a great night out. Book for Live @ EQ.
Bantu ...
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Fringe / Music
Picking up the pace, Live @ EQ, edges you toward a hellova good night out! Featuring a bit of everything, these jam sessions are guaranteed to set you up for a great night out. Book for Live @ EQ.
Zabalaza ...
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Fringe / Music
Picking up the pace, Live @ EQ, edges you toward a hellova good night out! Featuring a bit of everything, these jam sessions are guaranteed to set you up for a great night out. Book for Live @ EQ.
Sekelmaan ...
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Fringe / Music
Picking up the pace, Live @ EQ, edges you toward a hellova good night out! Featuring a bit of everything, these jam sessions are guaranteed to set you up for a great night out. Book for Live @ EQ.
The ...
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Fringe / Music
Picking up the pace, Live @ EQ, edges you toward a hellova good night out! Featuring a bit of everything, these jam sessions are guaranteed to set you up for a great night out. Book for Live @ EQ.
The ...
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Fringe / Music
Picking up the pace, Live @ EQ, edges you toward a hellova good night out! Featuring a bit of everything, these jam sessions are guaranteed to set you up for a great night out. Book for Live @ EQ.
UJU ...
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Fringe / Comedy
Live and Kicking Late Night Comedy returns with three different top local and international comics nightly. Still the best value comedy show on the Fringe: never the same show twice! Unplanned, uncensored and unbelievably funny. Book now. This show has ...
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Main / Music
Magdalene Minnaar & Nicholas Nicolaidis with members of the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: RICHARD COCK
PROGRAMME
Entry of the Gladiators - Julius Fucik Love Changes Everything - Andrew Lloyd Webber arr Stirling Blue Tango - Leroy Anderson The ...
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Fringe / Theatre
Winner of the 2010 Standard Bank Golden Ovation Award for Theatre, London Road stars the power-house duo, Robyn Scott and Ntombi Makhutshi in the extraordinarily humane story of two women whose lives collide in a Sea Point cottage. Funny, heartbreaking, ...
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Fringe / Wordfest
Looking Inside: five moving stories of people living with albinism. Human Rights Media Centre.
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Fringe / Physical Theatre
Two acclaimed works: How a dead dog explains soccer to Sonja Smit (Nicola Elliott/Brink Scholtz/Sonja Smit) - Spier Contemporary 2010: "skilled", with "controlled references to cruelty and horror that weren't without humour" (Wilkinson). Proximity Loss and Having (Nicola Elliott) - ...
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Fringe / Spiritfest
Revive with a meditative original contemporary worship performance by Grahamstown singer/songwriter Peter Adlard.
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Fringe / Dance
It's easy to help someone find direction. Complications start when somebody is lost from within... the emptiness seems to resemble nakedness. What does become certain is that the only person who can help one search for a lost soul is ...
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Main / Dance
Featuring: Malcolm Black, Owen Manamela, Bongile Mantsai, Nadine Mckenzie, Chuma Sopotela & Theo Ndindwa
Director: Ina Wichterich-Mogane
Choreographer: Ina Wichterich-Mogane and the cast Musical Direction and Composition: Neo Muyanga
Production Design: Craig Leo
Lighting Design & production Manager: Patrick Curtis
Artistic Director: Malcolm ...
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Fringe / Comedy
The award-winning Follow Spot Productions brings you their sell-out sensation, Love @ First Fight (previously known as Relationsh!t, 2009), a rollercoaster ride through the trials, tribulations and titillations of relationships. Follow Vanessa Harris (of Runnin Riot and We Will Rock ...
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Main / Music
Luca Ciarla - Violin
Vincent Abbracciante - Accordion
Nicola Di Camillo - Double bass
Francesco Savorette - Percussion
Music by L. Ciarla, D. Gillespie, J.S. Bach, T. Monk, Traditional
Ever since their début, the Luca Ciarla Quartet has wowed audiences ...
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Fringe / Theatre
Time always ticks, even though other people are facing disaster. The fear of poverty strikes a young man when he finds out that soon he will be retrenched. Amandla used to be a famous word during the struggle but now ...
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