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28 June 2012 - 8 July 2012
Grahamstown, South Africa
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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...