M. Motau. Umthombo Wethemba. (IsiZulu). Lyrical poems written within the harsh SA context.

A PROYECTO 34°S presentation Producer: Nikki Froneman Director: Javier Drucaroff Musical Director & live electronic music performer: Ernesto Romeo Choreographer, Acrobat/Aerialist: Pablo Descoubes Machitún.... an outdoor spectacle for the whole family with flying bouncing acrobats, ethereal dance, dream-like live electronic ...

Fidget Feet's mission is to invoke the imagination, provoke the senses and evoke the emotions of our audience. Choreographer: Fred Deb Music and film: Jym Daly Performers: Chantal McCormick, Jennifer Patterson, Lindsey Butcher Lighting design: Jacques Bertrand Costumes: Paul Shriek ...

This drama is set in Walmer, a township in Port Elizabeth. Khasta is trapped by his involvement in the bloody raids on foreign nationals taking place in his community. The drama heightens when he falls in love with a foreign ...

Herman Charles Bosman for the next generation! Physical theatre and comic book style: this is Bosman as never seen before! Take a wild ride through the Groot Marico, where Oom Schalk Lourens will show you a world of love potions, ...

Celebrating the Gustav Mahler centenary, Dawid Boverhoff and Marga Sander play the authoritative piano arrangement of his Symphony No.5. Mahler was one of the last great romantic composers. This is his most appreciated symphony, featuring the intriguing Adagietto. Beautiful music ...

The Maqubuthuli Group is a very vibrant group of dancers, doing a wide variety of multi-mixed dances, such as Indlam Yamabhaca, disco, etc. The group is located in Alfred Nzo District.

Ibhubesi Marimba Band is back! Featuring one of the great Afro-Jazz saxophonists, Bongani Tulwana, born in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape; he is now based in Tunis, Tunisia. This breathtaking collaboration of Marimba Meets Saxophone, generates that vibrant beat and the pulse ...

Mark Banks is one of the most recognised and respected comedians of his time. In over 25 years of comedy, Mark boasts at least one new one-man show each year, of which he writes and performs all the material himself. ...

Mark Ginsburg emerged as a saxophonist of note in Cape Town in the 1970s in his collaborations with Merton Barrow, Nol Klinkhamer and Mike Campbell amongst others. Since migrating to Australia in 1982, Mark has performed and collaborated extensively and ...

The Masonwabe Traditional Dance group showcases a celebration that is done by women when bringing Xhosa girls into womanhood. This celebration is displayed through traditional dances, colourful costumes and vibrant songs.

This semi-autobiographical play by Athol Fugard is set in the St. George's Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, in 1950 and explores the relationship between 17 year old, Hal and the two workers at his mother's tea room, Sam and Willie. This ...

Durban's most awarded actors Darren King and Clare Mortimer (From My Point of View) return with a new adaptation of Steven Berkoff's Master of Café Society. The bitterly funny, desperately lonely tale of Harry, great actor in his own mind ...

Bring some examples of your own work for a crit and create your own comic under the watchful eyes of renowned local and international comic artists. Drawing materials provided or bring your own favourite pens and brushes. Master Class 1 ...

This is a thought-provoking dance work, incorporating dance, music and storytelling. It's a piece about issues and thoughts that most people keep within. Performers are challenged to deal with betrayal, anger, confusion and identity, so that they can find inner ...

SHORT FILM QUARTET AT LAND (USA 1944) Director: Maya Deren Cast: Maya Deren, John Cage, Alexander Hammid: A silent, complex and rigorous exercise in dream logic. A woman washed up on shore as an Aphrodite perhaps and experiences the ...

Melinda Ferguson. Hooked. Secrets & highs of a sober addict's courageous return to work & family.

Choreographed & directed by Dayne Nel Mem-Re is a physical theatre production that explores the inner landscape of remembrance and recollection. By going on a unique journey along with the performers, the audience is drawn into their own world of ...

The story is about the concerns of artists, sportmen and women in alliances with the Y.C.L and COSAS, who have welcomed the establishment of our service point (DSAC) with high hopes that has been ignored.

Last year Meri Kenaz walked away from the Festival a joint winner of the Silver Standard Bank Ovation Award. This year she's back with two good friends skimmed from the cream of South African musical talent providing a backdrop for ...

Joint 2010 winner of the Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award (Music), Meri Kenaz is sure to wow audiences at this year's Festival. She'll be playing in the official Arena program with The Appropriate Context, as well as these exclusive solo ...

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 ...

Written by Adam Steyn in collaboration with the cast Directed by Adam Steyn Cast: Vicky Khumalo, Sparky Xulu, Debbie Dottridge, Kwanele Thusi, Edward Lloyd, Stella Dlangalala Franz Kafka's story about a middle class family whose eldest son turns into a ...

Experience some of the most brilliant works composed for piano performed by an exciting young talent on the South African classical stage. Mia Pistorius has received great acclaim for performances in Bulgaria, Germany and South Africa. The two different programmes ...

Mike van Graan. New books on policies, funding and marketing for arts practitioners.

Mind Games with Brendon Peel is filled with psychological illusions, mind twisting games and classic mentalism. This makes for an entertaining, puzzling performance

A story that follows a young schizophrenic teenager by the name of Khetiwe (the chosen one). Trapped between two seemingly very real worlds she is unsure of what is real. The truth lies in the missing piece of her soul ...

A mixed bag of music that resonates with African people. It includes umbhaqanga (township style music), gospel, masikandi (African Zulu dance music), disco, isicathamiya (miners usually play this type of music), Ikwela (simila to umbhaqanga), soul music and jazz. Don’t ...

A mixed bag of music that resonates with African people. It includes umbhaqanga (township style music), gospel, masikandi (African Zulu dance music), disco, isicathamiya (miners usually play this type of music), Ikwela (simila to umbhaqanga), soul music and jazz. Don’t ...

A successful black businessman decides to become a polygamist when his "A list" actress wife reaches menopause. Lahlemthini pursues his new found tradition with all the financial and political power of his station in life. He neglects his wife, screaming ...

The Mahaqasi Cultural Group was formed in 2000, and performs the SeSotho traditional music and dances known as Mohobelo. Performed on special occasions, at traditional ceremonies, graduation and birthday parties, Mohobelo is very colourful and entertaining with breathtaking charging movements ...

A gripping story that looks at the realities of the socio-economic consequences of migration. This production takes you through the world of sex-workers and what they go through in their everyday lives.

Monkey Doo is a very naughty monkey who always gets himself into trouble. He always messes around with the villagers, but one day goes too far. He decides to run away and comes across many strange characters, some of whom ...

MONKEY NUTS is one of the finest and funniest shows you will ever see.  The show is the most recent winner of the prestigious Naledi award for “Best Comedy Performance.” Performed by multi-award winning actor, Matthew Ribnick, MONKEY NUTS is ...

A Grahamstown favourite for years: mixed 6-voice a cappella ensemble celebrating good music and excellent singing. Winners of the Prague International Competition in 2008. Classical works are performed, as well as folk and popular music - stylish, sophisticated, with flair. ...

Adapted from Paul Gallico's Love of Seven Dolls, this is the charming story of love, hate and suicidal puppets. Mouche returns for its final run at the National Arts Festival. The show had great success overseas with Tim Redpath winning ...

Celebrate the arts in the spirit of a street parade! If you have a modicum of enthusiasm and a keen sense of frivolity then join the throng of giant puppets, stilt-walkers, street acrobats and youth theatre companies to parade down ...

Consider the possibility that the world has outgrown its operating system. When modern democracy got going it was a huge improvement on what had gone before. But for 200 years its basics have stayed the same. Time to move up, ...

The latest psychedelic safari into the stranger areas of the African experience by Anton Kotze (Safari Obscura). Using remarkable footage, shot in 1996 of South Africa's seminal avant garde music group The Mud Ensemble, which featured actor Marcel van Heerden ...

Muff Anderson. Yizo-yizo. Examines urban culture behind the TV series set in township schools.

Multi Mixed Dance is a showcase of traditional dances like the ibhasi, isiphantsula and isikiza interspersed with modern township jive. In today's new world and in modern communities, it is important that we do not forget our roots, that we ...

A unique and electrifying performance comprising of the songs and dances of our youth: based on the journey of African trends that mingles contemporary, traditional and modern dance, and is accompanied by powerful drumming and poetry lines.

A physical play that tells the story of a child soldier (Blood Shed) and other victims, taking its audience to real and fictional incidents of war and rebellion in Africa. A tribute to children at war and former child soldiers. ...