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 / Music
Classy new school musicians... who can rock for any type of audience. it's hip-hop at its best mixed with R&B, a hint of soul and a bit of classic served on the best instrumentals. "Had fun on this lane the ...
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Fringe / Music
UJU is the new sound of Urban Mzansi. A blend of Jo'burg's maturing cosmopolitan taste. From Busi Mhlongo to Radiohead, from Richard Bona to the Black Keys, from Goldfrapp to Meshell Ndegeocelo. This band is everything and nothing you've heard ...
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Fringe / Music Theatre
This is about a virgin maiden who refuses the Chiefs proposal. She is chosen by the Chief at the Reed Dance Function. This is about an individual against the law of the land performed by virgin maidens from Msinga. The ...
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Fringe / Dance
A wonderful, colourful display of traditional dance featuring ceremonial dances and highlighting the culture of the IsiXhosa people.
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Fringe / Dance
Umtshotsho is a vibrant and energetic traditional dance done by Amabomvana boys and girls during their celebrations. It consists of a number of different dances and poems, woven together with rhythmic movement and traditional costumes. A thread of poetry and ...
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Fringe / Dance
Township dance depicting typical township lifestyle with a variety of dance moves of different genre such as pantsula, gumboots, and isibojwa (ekasi-salad).
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Fringe / Wordfest
Unemployed Peoples' Movement poets, then Amitabh Mitra then reading in honour of imprisoned Nobel Prize Laureate poet Liu Xiaobo (China) then Open Mike.
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Fringe / Music Theatre
Unontombi is a traditional musical play that portrays a conflict between two men fighting for a beautiful woman in the village. These young men make use of traditional powers to win the love of this lady. The plot thickens when ...
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Fringe / Wordfest
Upstart Poetry, then Poems for Haiti (Amitabh Mitra), Worthy (Harry Owen) then Open Mike.
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Fringe / Music Theatre
A young girl forced into marriage at 13, her life changes drastically against her own will, she finds her magical place where she hides away from everyone, everytime she sings igqira lendlela, uqongqothwane (the beetle), uNkuba (the dungbeetle) and uKhulu ...
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Fringe / Theatre
Tshepang, possibly the South African play of the decade, now in isiZulu as uThembalethu. Based on an event that shook the conscience not only of this country but the world, it asks of us: "When a community is brutalised by ...
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Fringe / Performance Poetry - Story-telling - Readings
Story telling of 2 different stories of comedy in Pondo language that relate to aids awareness.
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