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 / Theatre
In the quiet town of Vanderbijlpark, the Khumalo family goes on with their lives like any average working class family. The passing of Mr Khumalo brings up family secrets that threaten to break-up this family. Brother and sister Vicky and ...
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Fringe / Wordfest
T G Motsaathebe. Basadi, lwa reng? (Setswana). A novel tracking the life of a woman activist.
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Fringe / Theatre
This drama production uses dialogue, mime, acting and humour to tell the story of the social, religious and political conflict of a father who wants his children to live his way, educationally and culturally. He is the only one who ...
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Fringe / Music Theatre
A DOUBLE BILL:
Tapestry is a musical about three lonely and needy friends that get the opportunity to fall in love with the same man, only to discover that they have to sacrifice their love and obligation for each other. Tapestry ...
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Fringe / Performance Poetry - Story-telling - Readings
Gavin Bonner returns with tales gathered from his travels around the world. Expect live music, traditional tales, personal stories and Gavin's incredible improvised poetic stories! Tellin' Tales received rave reviews from several national newspapers last year! This year promises to ...
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Fringe / Music Theatre
She wants forgiveness. He needs acceptance. They must all unlock their past. The key is Eléna De Mist and although her time is up she will do whatever it takes - even using unsuspecting hotel guests like the young Mbali ...
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Fringe / Dance
Haskins and Snyman have joined forces with PJ Sabbagha (The Forgotten Angle Theatre Company) resulting in a work that is beautiful, emotional, unpredictable and innovative. The Anatomy of Weather follows the unpredictability of relationships in a work that is both ...
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Fringe / Performance Poetry - Story-telling - Readings
The Awakening, written and directed by Nelisa Kala, is a multi-art production which comprises spoken-word poetry and original afro-jazz music. The production promotes a spiritual awakening of emotion, positive creative expression and change. It explores emotion as it moves through ...
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Fringe / Performance Poetry - Story-telling - Readings
The Awakening, written and directed by Nelisa Kala, is a multi-art production which comprises spoken-word poetry and original afro-jazz music. The production promotes a spiritual awakening of emotion, positive creative expression and change. It explores emotion as it moves through ...
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Fringe / Music Theatre
Acclaimed South African performer, Keri Hiles ignites the stage in a tender love story set on the Wild Coast in 1740. The musical, with a cast of versatile performers follows the riveting tale of Bessie, an orphan of the ocean ...
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Fringe / Film
Step into the lives of six artists sculpting South Africa's future from the fragments of tumultuous past. Born into different areas of the formerly-segregated country, the artists separately recraft history - and the remaining impacts of apartheid - in their ...
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Fringe / Spiritfest
The Divine Spark - Poetry readings and music from the period of the KJV. The Cathedral's Director of Music, Barbara Stout, and English Literary enthusiasts, Paul Walters, Malcom Hacksley and Jeanette Eve.
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Fringe / Theatre
This production tells the story of Khotso Sethuntsa, a medicine maker and healer, who people visit in order to get rich - 'ukuthwala'. The people who visited Khotso, the Abathwali were, at times, forced to sacrifice their family members. Through ...
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Fringe / Physical Theatre
Based on Ovid's Myth of Narcissus & Echo, this is a tale of reinvention in our world of wasted dreams. Uninspired and socially inept, Neville believes his life complete on receiving an auspicious letter. But instead, he has to re-evaluate ...
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Fringe / Dance
Back in Grahamstown bringing spontaneous combustion to the dance floor, this talented tap team will include all the glitz and glamour that you've come to know and love, plus the contemporary tap genre so rife today. Fast, furious and fascinatingly ...
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Fringe / Music Theatre
A group of slaves have been captured and placed in a dungeon which they call "The belly of the stone monster", while waiting to be sailed across the sea. They recount their troubles - why they were captured and brought ...
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Fringe / Family - Children's Theatre
Award-winning Ubom! is back again with a rip-roaring ride of fun and sheer awesomeness! Tat'omkhulutellsa's magical, intriguing tale of friendship and kindness in a faraway land. Told in an interactive, physical, and visually exciting style, this is superb family theatre ...
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Fringe / Dance
A collaboration between the Amaphiko Township Dance Project, choreographed by Sifiso Sikhakhane, and the Kingswood College Concert Band, conducted by Stephen Holder. A family's memory is pieced together through a song; a song with legendary powers to connect those who ...
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Fringe / Spiritfest
The remarkable story of how the book was produced that shaped the English language.
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Fringe / Music
Having played together for ten years, the Mee Brothers have crafted a warm, harmonically captivating sound. Their blend of bright acoustic tones, vocal sincerity and stirring lyrics will keep you entertained and leave you inspired.
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Fringe / Music
Having played together for ten years, the Mee Brothers have crafted a warm, harmonically captivating sound. Their blend of bright acoustic tones, vocal sincerity and stirring lyrics will keep you entertained and leave you inspired.
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Fringe / Comedy
The Most Amazing Show is back! The cult comedy duo, Corne and Twakkie, what changed forever the face of comedy in South Africa and also the way we speak is going to take this k*k to a whole new level. ...
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Fringe / Music
Kurt Egelhof finally breaks out of the musical closet with a compilation of original compositions that skipped an entire generation, before seeing the light of day! A collection of unpublished South African pop-genre works from the seventies, eighties and last ...
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Fringe / Family - Children's Theatre
The six-year-old son of an ogre discovers his nature and decides to escape his destiny. Drawing on Ntsomi storytelling traditions, this haunting and magical tale crosses cultures and continents to bring you "an audacious and beautiful creation ... that gives ...
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Fringe / Theatre
Kaalvoet on a dusty road; striding high-heeled down the streets of Jozi; pacing a stoep on aged feet at twilight: South African women from all walks of life come alive in this fresh and provocative two-hander.
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Fringe / Family - Children's Theatre
The Well Worn Theatre Co. presents Craig Morris and Jaques De Silva, two storytelling maestros, as they take you on a high-octane, action-packed, carbon-kicking adventure. From the emerald depths of the Amazon to the frenetic streets of Future Jozi, you'll ...
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Fringe / Music
A production featuring a cappella singing in its most basic form. The sound is raw, beautifully unique and allows the singing of any style of song. Voices are accompanied by a beat box.
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Fringe / Theatre
Philemon is middle-class and happy. One day, he hears that his wife is having an affair, and he catches her in flagrante. Her lover jumps out of the window but leaves behind his suit. Philemon then dreams up a strange ...
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Fringe / Theatre
The Three explores what is means to live in an environment where crime and drug addiction are the norm. The play follows three men and the difficult choices they are forced to make as they are catapulted on a journey ...
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Fringe / Physical Theatre
This Church explores deceit, greed and corruption. A hard-hitting story about some foreign nationals who come to South Africa to seek political and economic asylum. In due course, they prey on believers who submit to anything religious in the quest ...
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Fringe / Dance
A theatrical dance explosion of technique, athleticism and artistry. Technically awe-inspiring dancers, unfold the intricacies and diversities of choreographic works by some of the proudest South African choreographers. The most outstanding quality of Kmad.com is their passionate expressiveness in each ...
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Fringe / Theatre
To Be like This Rock is the harrowing story of five girls who come together working in a quarry breaking rocks. Taken from their homes into human trafficking, their lives feed the sex trade. The story is told through powerful ...
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Fringe / Theatre
Tore the Chain deals with the struggle and the experiences of black people during apartheid. It tells the story of a young man called Tumelo, who sacrificed his life to the struggle. It also shows how Tumelo's family felt the ...
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Fringe / Theatre
Torn Apart is a play about conflict within a family. The story revolves around a mother and her two sons from different fathers. She doesn't give the boys the same love and favours her younger son. The older son is ...
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Fringe / Wordfest
Trevor Emslie - Anti-Imperial War Poetry from Anglo-Boer War, Harry Owen & environmental poets opposed to the fracking of the Karoo then Open Mike.
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