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Student Theatre Takes Stage at National Arts Festival

A quirky, offbeat and darkly comic tale exploring issues affecting young South Africans through the performers' personal stories.

  • South Africa:   Student Sharp-Shooters

    Cue Online, 8 July 2012

    A ragtag group of society misfits, two ill-starred lovers from the great Can Themba's literary canon and a gaggle of nosy neighbourhood gossips were the big winners at the 2012… Read more »

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Student sharp-shooters

  • South Africa:   The End of the Road?

    Cue Online, 7 July 2012

    London Road has successfully mapped out an entertaining route through Grahamstown over the past three Festivals. With two more shows to go before it closes, it has been performed… Read more »

  • South Africa:   Wake Yourself Up!

    Cue Online, 6 July 2012

    Itsoseng is 21st Century protest theatre. Yawn? Sick of soapboxes and messages? Aren't most of us! Here, although of course the message is important, it's the way Omphile Molusi… Read more »

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Wake yourself up!

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  • South Africa:   Interrogating Oppression

    Cue Online, 3 July 2012

    Steven Cohen has made a name for himself in the South African art world largely through his shock tactics, which involve all manner of objects being inserted into his rectum, as… Read more »

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Interrogating oppression.

  • South Africa:   Visceral

    Cue Online, 3 July 2012

    Mies Julie is a contemporary adaptation of August Strindberg's late 19th-Century naturalistic play. This production, adapted and directed by Yael Farber, is subtitled Restitutions… Read more »

  • South Africa:   Beckett Revisited On the Fringe

    Cue Online, 4 July 2012

    This week, Krapp is resurrected. Samuel Beckett's character in Krapp's Last Tape comes back to life on the stage of the Victoria Theatre. This time, it is Lionel Newton, the 2002… Read more »

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Performing artists

  • South Africa:   Evocative and Esoterically Shaped Sounds

    Cue Online, 3 July 2012

    Following in the footsteps of the Chanticleer Singers' musical representation of South African works inspired by notions of dominant culture and marginalisation, the world… Read more »

  • South Africa:   Of Gravel Throats and Trumpets

    Cue Online, 3 July 2012

    For some, Louis Armstrong is the lovable gravel-voiced Satchmo singing What a Wonderful World; to others he was an Uncle Tom (yet he was invited to play at the Ghana independence… Read more »

  • South Africa:   Societal Revelations

    Cue Online, 3 July 2012

    You thought that coming to Festival would provide a welcome respite from the drama of post-democracy ANC politics; you even avoided buying the Sunday newspapers this past weekend.… Read more »

  • South Africa:   Big Girl Pays Off Big Time

    Cue Online, 3 July 2012

    Juliet Jenkin is back! After a disappointing commissioned work about South African author Mary Renault, Mary and the Conqueror, she is at her quirky best with this one-actor tale… Read more »

  • South Africa:   Does Race Still Matter?

    Cue Online, 3 July 2012

    Whether you page through the visual art, drama or comedy sections of the Festival programme, two themes recur - race and apartheid. Read more »

  • South Africa:   Finding Alice

    Cue Online, 1 July 2012

    A nice girl with a nasty habit. This is how director and choreographer Owen Lonzar labels the lead character in his adaptation of the novel Alice in Wonderland, which is called… Read more »

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