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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 / Public Art
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 ...

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Main / Dance
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 ...

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Main / Comedy
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. ...

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Main / Jazz
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 ...

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Main / Workshop
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 ...

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Main / Film
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 ...

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Main / Student Theatre
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 ...

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Main / Music
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 ...

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Main / Film
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 ...

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Main / Student Theatre
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 ...

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Main / Street Parade
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 ...

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Main / Think!Fest
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, ...

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Main / Film
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 ...