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"It’s interesting to me that as South Africa lurches from crisis to crisis and potentially monumental elections loom next year, the mood at this year’s festival was so strikingly apolitical."

There’s another great line-up of top-quality South African entertainment at The Drama Factory this month.

Shakespeare’s popular romantic comedy Twelfth Night will help warm up your winter!  It will be performed for a limited run from 5 to 15 July at The Masque.

"One is supposed to see plays like Woza Albert! the way one does with Shakespeare, simply because they are brilliant. The scenes in this play ought not to be familiar anymore."

"In a world where warmth and fuzziness à la Tuesdays with Morrie became our expectations of people living out their last in a stately way, it is important to be reminded that there are those, like Paul, who want to go kicking and screaming, dragging others with him."

"Those with some understanding of the Old Testament or the Quran would know that Abraham was about to sacrifice his son Isaac on the altar when God intervened by providing the world’s first scapegoat. Without the goat, there would have been no Jacob."

"The play ends with a repeat of the opening scene, which suggests that the cycles of violence may be perpetual and not limited to a single event."

"The clever structure provided a fun-filled 45 minutes during which many poignant stories about hair, and people’s reaction to hair, managed to be told."

"The king of broken things must rate as one of the most magical tales I have ever seen on any stage."

Howick, the gateway town to the iconic Midlands Meander, the premier arts and craft route in SA, is preparing a bid to become SA’s first Unesco City of Craft and Folk Art.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is the vice-president and artistic director of social impact at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. He delivered the keynote address at the Tribuo arts conference held in Stellenbosch in June 2023, and he spoke about a transformative future and the currencies of redemption.

We would like to share and listen to experiences of adults living with a disability in South Africa. We would like to talk around "my disability", "me as a person", "my environment", and "my participation".

Encounters South African international documentary festival, renowned for its celebration of thought-provoking and impactful documentaries, is thrilled to announce some of its exceptional international films set to captivate audiences in Cape Town and Johannesburg from 22 June to 2 July 2023.

Love me, feed me, never leave me, a comedy about love, longing and navigating modern relationships. It will be performed at The Drama Factory from 2 to 4 June.

Stellenbosch Craft Drinks Festival returns to the annual events calendar on 7 October 2023 in the scenic Jan Marais Nature Reserve.

In their programme She/Her, clarinettist Maria du Toit and pianist Vera Kooper perform music by female composers of various nationalities, eras and musical styles. / In hul program She/Her voer klarinetspeler Maria du Toit en pianis Vera Kooper musiek deur vroulike komponiste van verskeie nasionaliteite, eras en musiekstyle, uit. 

There is a dream of performing in New York City. The bustling metropolis is home to some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls and music venues, and to grace one of these stages would be a true accomplishment.

In June, this 120-member orchestra of talented musicians ranging from age 12 to 21, led by its co-founder and guiding force Benjamin Zander, embarks on a 19-day, multi-city tour, performing seven collaborative concerts in Pretoria, Soweto, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Makhanda.

With 38 confirmed groups performing the Bard’s works over 17 days, this year’s fest – themed Unplugged and illuminated in 2023! – will once again light up the stage as the SSFSA showcases burgeoning young South African talent.

The 2023 Franschhoek Literary Festival will offer Afrikaans literature as part of a rich and engaging three-day programme. Afrikaans makes its appearance for the first time at the festival through a mix of sessions in Afrikaans and Afrikaans authors and books.