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The Baxter management regrets to advise that due to an illness (not COVID-19- related) with one of the cast members of its production of Nadia Davids’ latest play Hold still, it has been decided to postpone the season to early 2022.

"And if anyone tells you it is not about the detail, ignore that. The work that has gone into every second and scene of Ferine and Ferase contributes to a theatrical experience that reels you in and bowls you over."

"Ons is meer as halfpad in die Toyota US Woordfees Fees TV – die eerste kunstefees wat op Suid-Afrikaanse televisie op ’n opwipkanaal uitgesaai word – en my oë is al byna vierkantig, maar van televisie afsit en gaan slaap is daar geen sprake nie."

Met Cintaine Schutte se eenvrouvertoning van Die dinge van ’n kind binnekort op die planke by Hoërskool Jan van Riebeeck, gesels Marita van der Vyver oor tieners, ouers en waarom die boek 27 jaar ná sy verskyning mense steeds gaande het.

"Die pyn van verlies, die pyn van onderdrukking, die pyn van hongerte en armoede … dié gaan ons nog vir lank moet aanspreek en met eerbiedige respek hanteer. Ons mag nie moeg word of opgee nie."

In traversing the inner journeys of intimacy, this new dance work is finally a celebration of all that is sacred and beautiful. In a display of gravity defying dance and embodied story telling of the intimate and the holy this production will leave you breathless!

Na die groot sukses van die eerste digbundelvertoning Warmer voor die tuimeldroër stel Danie du Toit sy tweede digbundel bekend.

Met Tribuo Wawyd Wakker/Tribuo Wide Awake gaan ses akteurs vanaf Vrydag 2 Julie tot Saterdag 3 Julie deurnag repeteer en improviseer tot hulle ’n verhoogstuk geskep het.

Margit Meyer-Rödenbeck en Marion Holm. Twee name wat jou klaar laat lag, al lees jy dit net. En wanneer laas het jy die kans gehad om hulle op ’n verhoog te geniet? Kaartjies kos R100 en kan bespreek word by webtickets.   

The Baxter Theatre Centre is proud to announce its most ambitious and exciting production in recent years, the world premiere of Nobel Prize-winning author JM Coetzee’s Life and times of Michael K, adapted for the stage by Lara Foot, in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company.

The SAIBC at the Artscape Opera House will be open to the public, with the competition taking place daily from Monday, 19 to Friday 23 July at 17h00, and on Saturday, 24, at 14h00, be followed by the closing performance and awards ceremony at 19h00.

Booking is now open for the modern classic, Manuel Puig’s extraordinary play, Kiss of the Spider Woman, directed by the multi-award-winning Sylvaine Strike, at The Baxter Golden Arrow Studio from 5 to 19 June 2021 at 7 pm, with Saturday matinees at 2 pm.

Cape Town's only magical arts non-profit organisation, the College of Magic, is proud to announce the appointment of the esteemed Daniel Galloway as its new interim CEO.

Cape Town City Ballet proudly presents the South African premiere of Mthuthuzeli November's Olivier Award-winning Ingoma as part of its Autumn Season at Artscape. 

Emma Kotze gesels met Carlo Daniels oor sy werk wat hy by die fees aanbied, asook die geleenthede wat die Jakes Gerwel-mentorskapprogram, waarvan hy in 2020 deel was, vir hom gebied het en hoe sy toekomsdrome lyk.  

In samewerking met die Nasionale Afrikaanse Teater-inisiatief (NATi), Kunstekaap en die Jakes Gerwel Stigting bied die Suidoosterfees vanjaar weer ‘n NATi Jong Sterre-program by dié fees aan wat tot 2 Mei by die Kunstekaap plaasvind. Emma Kotze gesels met Margo Kotze oor haar werk wat sy by die fees aanbied, asook die geleenthede wat die Jakes Gerwel-mentorskapprogram, waarvan sy in 2020 deel was, vir haar gebied het en hoe haar toekomsdrome lyk.  

"Teater is lewende kuns. Dit sluimer hopelik net tydens die pandemie ’n bietjie. Teater is alles vir my. Dis kerk en kulkuns, konfrontasie en ontvlugting, droom en nagmerrie."

Wynberg Boys' Acting Association (WBAA) will be presenting their unique abridged version of Othello at this year's Shakespeare Schools Festival South Africa (SSFSA), with the roles of Othello and Desdemona played by a female and male respectively.

Prinsloo volg haar vorige kragtige eenvrouvertonings (Kamphoer – die verhaal van Susan Nell, Oskar en die pienk tannie) op in hierdie werk wat inspireer en ontroer, maar ook vertroos. Spertyd is van 20 tot 25 April 2021 by die Atterburyteater te sien.

Roger Ballen talks to Naomi Meyer about how Hänsel und Gretel can energise people during pandemic times and how theatregoers might be able to "walk out of the opera as different people".