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
Main / Student Theatre
Cast: Bianca Binneman, Zano Mthembu, Megan Wright, Edward Pepperell, Dumisa Lengwati, Bryce Woodiwiss, Elisha Mudly
A secluded weekend away leads to some dark and intriguing discoveries for a gathering of people. As an intruder is brought into their fold, what ...
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Main / Film
When three friends meet in a restaurant and dream up a movie, they believe they can become big players in the game of life. Fate steps in when a reclusive stranger (Stanley) presents them with a script which is his ...
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Main / Film
This award-winning film provides a cinematic recreation of the Algerian struggle for independence from France (1954-1962). It is a provocative and powerful depiction of this conflict which combines revolutionary fervour with careful, cool analysis. It is considered an important and ...
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Main / Film
aka Le Boeuf sur le Toit
Another stylistically audacious work from Wits academic, Jyoti Mistry, sailing across disparate narratives and international locations - Johannesburg, Helsinki, Vienna and New York. The result is a kaleidoscopic snapshot of urban spaces and ...
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Main / Theatre
Set in 1950 South Africa, a tiny family butchery is run by a prematurely retired ballroom dancer and his ever loyal servant, Boy. The ridged routine of their lives is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a slumberous parcel. ...
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Main / Jazz
Guitarist David Ledbetter made his first mark on the Jazz Festival in Grahamstown nearly two decades ago as leader of the very funky young group of UCT Jazz School graduates The Truly Fully Hey Shoo Wow Band, who stole the ...
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Main / Music
Winners of the 2010 Old Mutual National Choir Festival
Conductor: Wiseman Mkhize
The Clermont Community Choir emanates from the Clermont Catholic Church Choir and was founded in 1992. The choir is a registered non-profit organisation, specialising in a ...
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Main / Film
COURTESY OF VIDEO VISION
Thirty years ago the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Theatre du Chatelet ...
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Main / Student Theatre
"We didn't know where we were going until we were there. And once we were there, we didn't remember where we had come from. That's what I loved so much about The Domain. And this is why I knew I ...
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Main / Music
KWA ZULU-NATAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conductor: Richard Cock
Soloists Ben Schoeman - piano
Magdalene Minnaar - soprano
PROGRAMME Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896) Mignon Overture Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) To a Wild Rose Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896) Je suis, Titania Johannes ...
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Main / Film
Courtesy of Nu Metro
Luftslotten som sprangdes
Stig Larsson's phenomenally successful Millennium Trilogy (10 million sales worldwide) seems remarkable. Larsson, who sadly passed away in 2004, was an expert on the rise of the new right wing in Sweden and ...
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Main / Film
COURTESY OF NU METRO
Flickan som lekte med elden
Stig Larsson's phenomenally successful Millennium Trilogy (10 million sales worldwide) seems remarkable. Larsson, who sadly passed away in 2004, was an expert on the rise of the new right ...
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Main / Film
COURTESY OF NU-METRO
Man som hatar kvinnor
Stig Larsson's phenomenally successful Millennium Trilogy (10 million sales worldwide) seems remarkable. Larsson, who sadly passed away in 2004, was an expert on the rise of the new right wing in Sweden ...
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Main / Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Divertimento in E flat, K. 563
Zanta Hofmeyr (violin), Morkel Combrink (viola), Wessel Beukes (cello)
Among the greatest works ever penned in the realm of chamber music Mozart composed his sublime and masterful Divertimento in E flat, ...
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Main / Theatre
Director: Alan Swerdlow
Design & Lighting: Jannie Swanepoel
CAST: Graham Hopkins, Michael Richard, LouiseSaint-Clare, Theo Landley, Clyde Berning, David Schlachter, Matthew Lotter, Gopala Chetty, Asher Stoltz, Roberto Pambo, Jeremy Richard, Marcelle Richards
Pieter Toerien has earned his stripes ...
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Main / Film
COURTESY OF THE PRODUCER
A wonderful surprise! If the first Son of God can turn water into wine, Arthur, the self-proclaimed second son of God can make stony hearts beat again. The story of psychiatric patients in a boarding ...
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Main / Music
The Lectures of Professor Glaçon, the Automatic Guitar and Other Fascinating Yet Forgotten Episodes of Music History
Lecturer: François Sarhan With: Mathieu Metzger (saxophone), Gerrit Nulens (percussion) and a musician from crWth Original idea, text, music scores and images: François ...
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Main / Think!Fest
Listeners to Talkradio 702 and 567 Cape Talk will know Chris Smith as the "Naked Scientist” through his energetic and fascinating weekly on air chats with Redi Tlhabi. When he’s not on the radio, Smith is a doctor and a ...
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Main / Jazz
The Ploctones is the vehicle for Anton Goudsmit, a highly innovative Dutch guitarist whose playing spans all conceivable guitar styles and whose infectious stage presence will stay with you long after the gig. In the past year he won the ...
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Main / Dance
Musical Director: Neo Leleka
Society can be defined as a group that is made up of various individuals held together by societal bonds. Within the collective, individuals are seen to be neutral entities, but actually serve either as positive or ...
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Main / Film
Aka: The Secret Glory of SS Obersturmfuhrer Otto Rahn
Combining rare archival footage, old letters and photographs to tell the story of Otto Rahn (1904 - 1939), who worked in the Occult division of the Nazi hierarchy. Rahn was ...
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Main / Theatre
Concept and direction: Sylvaine Strike
Dramaturge: Craig Higginson
Devised by: Sylvaine Strike and the full company
Design and Decor: Chen Nakar and Sasha Ehlers
Music: Sam Sklair and the company
Lighting Design: ...
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Main / Film
COURTESY OF VIDEO VISION
Das Weisse Band
This latest film from the modern master of ennui, Michael Haneke details the strange and disturbing events which take place in a small parish village in the north of Germany during ...
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Main / Jazz
EfraïmTrujillo (sax) is based in Amsterdam and has specialised in the vibrant rhythms of the Caribbean, touring as diversely as Cuba, Tunisia, Jamaica and Senegal. Per Thornberg (sax) comes from Halmstad, Sweden, and when he performed in Grahamstown in 2008 ...
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Main / Workshop
Create your own cartoons at this interactive immersion into the world of comic art, facilitated by local and international artists. The best participants will be selected to proceed to the more advanced Co/Mix Master Classes (see below). In ToonLab 1, ...
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Main / Workshop
Create your own cartoons at this interactive immersion into the world of comic art, facilitated by local and international artists. The best participants will be selected to proceed to the more advanced Co/Mix Master Classes (see below). In ToonLab 1, ...
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Main / Student Theatre
We are born clean and unconfused. We touch the world and the world touches us. But as we grow its no longer as easy as "playing house". Responsibilities and temptations will darken our souls. And before we know it - ...
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Main / Public Art
Director: Richard Antrobus
Assistant Director: Tristan Jacobs
Created in collaboration with: Phezulu Project Via Kasi (Township Movers) Bionic Breakers Sakhuluntu Cultural Group Masidlale Productions and also featuring a number of guest performers and musicians.
Loosely adapted from the Antoine De ...
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Main / Jazz
Vocalist Tutu Puoane has a long history in Grahamstown: as a UCT Jazz student she was selected for the National Youth Big Band in 1999 that toured to New York, and she returned to the Festival in 2004 as the ...
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Main / Jazz
Vocalist Tutu Puoane has a long history in Grahamstown: as a UCT Jazz student she was selected for the National Youth Big Band in 1999 that toured to New York, and she returned to the Festival in 2004 as the ...
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Main / Theatre
Conceived, written and performed by Nomhle Nkonyeni and Val McLane
This blanket once rainbow knitted by loving female fingers knotted by domestic duty rent in two in 1967 woven together with gossamer thread by four girl-child hands ten years ...
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