South African Theatre
The Last Five Years
“A Musical Masterpiece” – THE CHICAGO SUN
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Colour Me InColour Me In Starring two of Durban’s freshest talents, Caitlin Kilburn who has just arrived back from a stint in Seoul, where she played Sheila in Day in the Death of Joe Egg but Durban audience’s may remember her most from her unforgettable performance as Aldonza in Man of La Mancha. The show also stars Standard Bank Ovation Award winner Grant Jacobs, best known for his performances in the Bob and Rob shows and his award winning show PaperBoy! which has travelled South Africa and beyond. Colour Me In will be directed by Dutch director Denise Lukkenaer (Amsterdam), who was seen earlier this year at the Musho! Festival with lighting by Nosipho Bophela.
AntigoneJean Anouilh’s Jean Anouilh’s play Antigone is a tragedy inspired by Greek mythology and the play of the same name by Sophocles from the fifth century BC. Written in 1942, when Nazi forces occupied France, the story revolves around the conflict between the idealist Antigone and her rigid uncle, Creon, over the proper burial of Antigone’s brother, Polynices. The play was also interpreted to represent the struggle of the French Resistance movement against the forces of the Vichy government during the height of Nazi occupation. Jean Anouilh’s Antigone is an adaptation of Sophocles’ tragic play of the same title. Antigone |
KWV Indian Comedy TourKWV Indian Comedy Tour Adult only audiences! For more info visit www.indiancomedy.co.za. Adapt or FlyPieter-Dirk Uys presents
Master satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys will be doing a world tour of South Africa with his latest show, Adapt or Fly, which comes to the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on UKZN campus from 6 – 18 March.
Adapt or Fly! Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout, Kidi Amin, Pik Botha, Nowell Fine, Mrs Petersen, the old Krokodil, Madiba and the dancing DA are coming to the rescue! In a time of depression, recession, fear and anger, what is better and more healing than a good laugh at the expense of those who depress, recess, frighten and annoy us?
Pieter-Dirk Uys celebrates 2012 as a year of radical change in South Africa through political paralysis. From the hundred million rand ANC centenary celebration in January, right up that long winding road to end up again in Mangaung for the ANC December Congress, the ruling party will be too busy fighting each other for personal wealth and political power to bother themselves about running a country up or down.
His new show will be a personal political comedy-trek along a familiar long tiptoe to freedom, through the minefields of racism and sexism that have always made up the tarmac of our political freeway. Laughter at fear has always been Uys's trademark, from the darkness of his first one-man show in 1982 Adapt or Dye, to the dazzling kaleidoscope of rainbow colours in his new 2012 show Adapt or Fly.
The performance on March 8 is a fund raiser for Rotary Durban North – tickets through Computicket.
The WORLD TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA: 4, 5, 6 January: Barnyard Plettenberg Bay 7 January: Barnyard Mossel Bay 12, 13 January: Boardwalk Port Elizabeth 15, 16, 17 February: Rhodes Theatre Grahamstown 6 – 18 March: Sneddon Theatre Durban 3 – 29 April: The Fringe @ Joburg Theatre 14 May to 9 June: Baxter Studio Cape Town 27 June to 7 July: Grahamstown National Arts Festival |

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