8 April 2019 - 6 May 2019 1 Page 5 Editor’s Note

Page 6 International Cultural Exchange Falls under the Spotlight

23 April International Book Day Feature

Page 10 Share your Day with the Market Theatre

Page 11 James Ngcobo Speaks About the Power of Books

Page 12 Reading Rooms gifted on Madiba Day by Exclusive Books

Page 13 Leading Book Fairs Make Market Theatre Their Base

Page 14 Human Rights Awards

Page 16 The legends of the Market Theatre

Page 18 Art of partnership

Page 20 WHAT’S ON AT THE MARKET THEATRE FOUNDATION

Page 26 Scene at the Market Theatre

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WRITERS: Anthony Ezeoke (Audience Development) Busi Letwaba (Receptionist and Tour Guide) Clara Vaughan (Market Laboratory Head) Ismail Mahomed (Market Theatre Foundation CEO) Keitu Gwangwa (Windybrow Arts Centre Head) Khona Dlamini (Programmes and Project Manager) Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu (Senior Publicist) Zama Sweetness Buthelezi (Brand and Communications Manager) Zodwa Shongwe (Producer) Market Theatre Foundation STORY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: The is an agency of the Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu (Senior Publicist) Department of Arts & Culture

COMPILATION AND PICTURES: Thato Kobile (Digital Communications Officer)

EDITORS: Zama Sweetness Buthelezi (Brand and Communications Manager) Ismail Mahomed (Market Theatre Foundation CEO)

LAYOUT AND DESIGN: THE Ryan Lloyd (Graphic Designer) MARKET

PHOTOGRAPHERS: T HEATRE Michael Phasha Ngoma Ka Mpahlele FOUNDATION Thandazile Zwelibanzi Whitney Peters

THE THE THE MARKET MARKET THE MARKET WINDYBROW T HEATRE T HEATRE PHOTO ARTS CENTRE LABORATORY WORKSHOP

Cover image © MphoMokgadi

2 MARKET BUZZ Volume 3 No 02 8 April 2019 - 6 May 2019 3 n this month’s bumper shares the artistic director, Editor’s edition Market Buzz James Ngcobo’s vision and shines the spotlight on excitement about South people, productions African writers; and why some Note andI events at the Market of our favorite books and short Theatre Foundation that stories have been adapted into - Zama Sweetness Buthelezi engages with themes of stage plays. (Brand and Communications Manager) democracy, freedom, voting and the political landscape in Buzz also provides a South Africa. preview of the Market Theatre Foundation’s programme of We join the Market Theatre events at Market Theatre, Laboratory as they go down Market Photo Workshop, memory lane to celebrate their Market Theatre Laboratory and winning of the Adelaide Tambo the Windybrow Arts Centre for Human Rights Awards which the coming three months. solidifies the Market Theatre Laboratory’s commitment to We look forward to seeing push the human rights agenda. you, soon.

To celebrate International Book Day on 23 April, Buzz

4 MARKET BUZZ Volume 3 No 02 8 April 2019 - 6 May 2019 5 THE THE MARKET MARKET T HEATRE T HEATRE FOUNDATION “As a leading South The Embassy of the Netherlands has also funded FOUNDATION the work of the Market Theatre Laboratory by African theatre with supporting the Township Schools Festivals and the Community Theatre Development Programme with International an international funding amounting to R2 510 086. In 2017, the Market Theatre Foundation footprint we believe in strengthened its relationship with the Embassy of the Cultural Netherlands through a weeklong festival that critically sharing our networks reflected and celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Culture in Another South Africa Festival that was held Exchange and broadening the in Amsterdam. conversation on “This Festival gave us the opportunity to bring Falls Under together some of the cultural stalwarts such as Barbara Masekela, Malcolm Purkey and Albie Sachs who were “International cultural exchanges international cultural in Amsterdam in 1987 in a critical dialogue about provide a dynamic framework for international cultural exchange and solidarity with critical reflection for forging new the Spotlight exchange.” a new firebrand of cultural stalwarts which included - Photos: ©Ngoma - Ismail Mahomed (CEO of the Market Theatre Foundation) playwright Monangeng Motshabi and theatre director partnership and re-envisioning Jade Bowers”, said Mahomed. a future for arts organisations to

visit to South Africa by, Marjan Participants in the roundtable also included The Embassy funded the weeklong festival with a work in the 21st century” Hammersma, Secretary General Ambassador Hans Peters, Deputy Ambassador grant of R405 030. - Ismail Mahomed (CEO of the Market Theatre Foundation) in the Ministry of Education, Jan Heusken, the Senior Policy Officer for Culture and Science in the Culture & Media, Daniel Smit and Intern Jona NetherlandsA on Wednesday 3 April was taken Bootman from the Embassy of the Netherlands. up by the Market Theatre Foundation to put They were joined by Henk Heikamp and Hilda the value of international cultural exchanges de Bruijn from the Netherlands Ministry of and collaboration under the spotlight. Arts, Culture and Science.

“International cultural exchanges provide a The visiting Dutch delegation also visited dynamic framework for critical reflection for the Market Photo Workshop, winner of the forging new partnership and re-envisioning a prestigious Dutch-based Prince Claus Award. future for arts organisations to work in the 21st A ceremony to celebrate the award will be century”, said Ismail Mahomed, CEO of the held by the Embassy of the Netherlands at the Market Theatre Foundation. Market Theatre on 17 April.

In a roundtable discussion with Marjan “The Market Theatre Foundation’s Hammersma, the Market Theatre Foundation’s partnership with the Embassy of the CEO, Ismail Mahomed, shined the spotlight on Netherlands goes as far back as 1999 when the benefits, challenges and opportunities for the Embassy first funded courses at the Market international cultural exchanges with Annabel Photo Workshop with a grant of R66 000. Lebethe (CEO of Ditsong Museums), Gregory The relationship grew through 2000 – 2002, Maqoma (Artistic Director Vuyani Dance 2007 and 2010/11 with funding amounting to Theatre), Ashraf Johaardin (CEO of Business R2,082,550”, said Mahomed. South Africa), Mike van Graan (Playwright) and Sershan Naidoo (Member of the Council of the Market Theatre Foundation).

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“We know that there are several other proposals for joint collaboration between the Embassy of the Netherlands and the Market Theatre Foundation. As the Council of the Market Theatre Foundation we fully support our management in their endeavours to pursue and broker these partnerships”, said Gerald Themba Dumas, the Chairperson of the Market Theatre Foundation at a reception which rounded off the delegation’s visit to the Market Theatre Foundation.

The cultural programme at the Windybrow Arts Centre was hosted by the Centre’s Head, Keitu Gwangwa, a beneficiary of the Embassy international leadership exchange programme. Gwanga’s visit to the Netherland’s will be followed up in August this year when the Centre will make its debut on the international stages at the Afrovibes Festival with Lebo Mashile in Venus Hottentot vs Modernity.

“We invited several artists and organisations to join us in this one day programme when we put the spotlight on international exchange. As a leading South African theatre with an international footprint we believe in sharing our networks and broadening the conversation on international cultural exchange”, said Ismail Mahomed, CEO of the Market Theatre Foundation.

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THE THE MARKET MARKET T HEATRE INTERNATIONAL T HEATRE FOUNDATION BOOK DAY FOUNDATION 23 APRIL: FEATURE INTERNATIONAL BOOK DAY FEATURE James Ngcobo

nternational Book Day is an annual day that speaks about Share your is observed around the world organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to the power of promote reading, publishing, and copyright. The Market Theatre opened its 2019 season Day with I with Van Wyk Storyteller of Riverlea, a production Authors, illustrators, books celebrate this day that celebrated the life and works of iconic South Books the Market to encourage reading among common public. African author Chris van Wyk who endowed the - Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu, Zama Sweetness It is the worldwide celebration of the books nation with a rich legacy of literature before his Buthelezi & James Ngcobo and readings and celebrated in more than 100 death. Van Wyk’s writings is one of several works countries. that have been adapted for the stage by the Theatre Market Theatre. The Theatre is in a process of adapting Lewis - Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu World book day celebration plays a great role Nkosi’s Mating Birds for the 2020 season. in bringing kids closer to the books reading habits “For the past three years we have strongly as well as creates interest in them to know about articulate our desire to stage short stories and “We have commissioned a playwright to authors and other important things. books written by some of South Africa’s finest unpack this captivating work, a love story set in a scribes. This also provides a new gateway to time of anarchy, a story about how young people In addition, the 23 April is a symbolic date in introducing the works by these writers to our will always find a way to connect even if there are world literature. It is the date on which several patrons and to allow young actors to sink their teeth walls between them”, said Ngcobo. prominent authors, William Shakespeare, Miguel on such palatable text that explores South African Some of the epic highlights of book adaptation Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. biographies from yesteryear to the contemporary that the Market Theatre has produced include This date was a natural choice for UNESCO’s times”, explained James Ngcobo, the artistic Cion by Zakes Mda adapted into a dance piece THE General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay director of the Market Theatre Foundation. by Gregory Maqoma, Nailed by Niq Mhlongo a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this adapted by Luthando Mngomezulu and Mpho MARKET date, encouraging everyone to access books - Ngcobo has cast his net wide to find voices J Molepo and Crepuscule, short story by Can most beautiful invention for sharing ideas beyond that not only echo who we are as a nation but to Temba adapted by Dominique Gumede. the boundaries of humanity space and time as well also give an opportunity to young playwrights as the most powerful forces of poverty eradication and directors to have a platform to showcase how “Books are at the intersection of some of the T HEATRE and peace building. they have re -imagined these tales. most essential freedoms of expression, the most fragile of human rights in the world”, said Ngcobo. Share your favourite book with us on our social “It is also wonderful to witness how a book media platforms Facebook: Market theatre Twitter: can morph into a theatrical work. The the Market Markettheatre. The Market Theatre Foundation Theatre is very much in support of this venture has shown an overwhelming commitment to which also serve to get the young playwrights books and encouraged reading. to hone their writing skills”, he said passionately mirroring his desire to present work that celebrates the work of legendary writers and which at the same time advance opportunities for a newer generation of artists. 10 Market Buzz Volume 3 No 02 8 April 2019 - 6 May 2019 11 23 APRIL: THE THE MARKET 23 APRIL: MARKET T HEATRE INTERNATIONAL T HEATRE INTERNATIONAL BOOK DAY BOOK DAY FEATURE FEATURE

Reading Leading Rooms gifted Book fairs Make Market on Madiba The Reading Rooms were gifted to the Windybrow Arts Centre on July 18, 2017 to commemorate the birthday of Nelson Mandela’s Theatre its Day by birth. Both the Jozi Book Fair and the South African Book Fair have made the Market Theatre their “This is a well-deserved accolade for Exclusive home base for their annual gathering of books, Base Exclusive Books. Their gift of a reading room donated to writers and enthusiastic readings. - Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu & Zama Sweetness the Windybrow Arts Centre on Nelson Mandela’s Buthelezi birthday last year honours his vision of giving The four-day Jozi Book Fair takes place during Books children the opportunity to learn and discover Heritage Month in September. Last year the - Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu & Ismail Mahomed new knowledge”, says Ismail Mahomed the CEO Jozi Book Fair celebrated a bumper 10-year development of our nation’s book sector also of the Market Theatre Foundation. anniversary festival which included programmes takes place at the Market Theatre Foundation. of activities ranging from discussions, roundtables, The Fair, this year, takes place on 6 - 8 May. An innovative partnership between the Market The partnership between Exclusive Books and book launches, book sales, music and poetry for Theatre Foundation and Exclusive Books to the Market Theatre Foundation was developed schools, children and the general public. “In addition to these leading book fairs being promote and advance the reading of African when the Coloured Cube was appointed hosted at the Market Theatre, we are also home literature with the establishment of the Exclusive together with Sticky Situation to reactivate the Focusing on different themes each year the for a number of book launches during the year”, Books Pan-African Reading Rooms at the dormant Windybrow Arts Centre which was given 2018 spotlight was “Literature and Working said Ismail Mahomed, CEO of the Market Theatre Windybrow Arts Centre received a nod from a second lease on life when the Department of People”, to highlight the literature written by and Foundation. “Books are an essential part of Business Arts South Africa last year. Arts & Culture placed the Centre under the for the working class that is often ignored or never defining our humanity and access to literature administration of the Market Theatre Foundation. acknowledged. creates opportunities, breaks down barriers and The Pan-African Reading Lounge for adults and advances a better understanding of our world the Exclusive Books Pan-African Reading Room Led by Mariapaola McGurk, the director of the “The aim was to mobilize women wherever and its diverse people”. for children at the Windybrow Arts Centre was Coloured Cube, during her company’s residency they are – the girl child in school, in tertiary the winner of the 2018 Business & Arts South at the Windybrow Arts Centre, the reading room institutions, working and/or unemployed – to Africa (BASA) award for the Sponsorship In-Kind has since become a hub of activity for children explore the position of women in communities category. who visit it each day for a range of programmes in and look at their literature historically and now”, drama, music, dance and visual art. said a spokesperson for the Jozi Book Fair.

“The residency was anchored on building The South African Book Fair, managed and run partnerships that are long term, visionary and by the South African Book Development Council which can strengthen African narratives”, says (SABDC), and which is part of a much bigger and Ismail Mahomed, the CEO of the Market Theatre deeper strategy that encompasses the overall Foundation.

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ith the voice Award for theatre engaging Human of the youth with Human Rights issues at the being given Krekvars-Kopanang Festival at the platform the University of Pretoria for Rights toW shine at the Market Theatre Lampedusa Beach directed by Laboratory , it’s no surprise that Raissa Brighi. the Laboratory has produced Awards a number of works in its 30 This year, the Market Theatre - Hayleigh Evans year history that highlight Laboratory and Windybrow human rights issues, and more Arts Centre drama company, specifically their impact on the Kwasha tackled this issue youth of the country. In 2015, head on in Currently (G)old, NOORD! directed by Clara devised by the company and Vaughan was awarded the mentored by Prince Lamla Adelaide Tambo award for which opened at The Ramolao celebrating human rights in Makhene Theatre on Human the arts in the student category Rights Day. The piece will be at the National Arts Festival. restaged at the POPArt theatre In 2016, the Market Theatre in Maboneng from 18 – 21 Laboratory won the Kopanang April.

14 MARKET BUZZ Volume 3 No 02 8 April 2019 - 6 May 2019 15 THE THE MARKET The legends MARKET PHOTO PHOTO WORKSHOP WORKSHOP of the Market Theatre - Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu - Images: Barney Simon (Bottom) born on 13 April & Malcolm Purkey (Right) born on 14 April

Simon spent a year (1969-70) in the U.S., where ounder of the Market Theatre and its he introduced South African plays to a wider first artistic director, Barney Simon as audience and edited the journal New American well as his successor, Malcolm Purkey, Review. In 1976 Simon and Mannie Manim are two South African legends whose opened the Market Theatre in a converted fruit birthdays fall in the month of April. F market. Here he nurtured dramatists such as Fugard, Percy Mtwa, and Mbongeni Ngema-- Barney Simon was the Market Theatre’s Artistic in spite of recurring financial difficulties and the Director until his untimely death in June 1995. constant threat of arrest for staging controversial This legendary South African theatre-maker was contemporary plays performed by multiracial committed to the ethos of a non-racial theatre and casts in front of multiracial audiences. Simon’s in defiance of South Africa’s apartheid legislation own published works include the play Born in the laid the foundation for the ethos of the Market R.S.A. Theatre Foundation. Today, the Barney Simon Theatre in the former Fruit & Vegetable Market stands as a monument The son of working-class Lithuanian immigrants to his contribution to South African theatre. he became an opponent of racial inequality at an early age. Malcolm Purkey joined the Market Theatre in 2004 and was the artistic director till 2013. He is Barney discovered a love of theatre while an award-winning theatre director and playwright working under director Joan Littlewood in London having received the Breytenbach Epathlon, in the 1950s. After returning to Johannesburg, he English Academy Award and multiple Vita Awards supported himself by working as an advertising and Naledi Theatre awards. copywriter while he produced and directed plays, notably Athol Fugard’s The Blood Knot (1961). Malcolm Purkey is also a screenplay writer, teacher and a Fulbright Scholar. He has an MA in Theatre Studies from the State University of New York, and he taught at Wits in the Drama Department for over 20 years.

He was the founder member and director of Junction Avenue Theatre Company, one of South Africa’s leading workshop theatre companies. Under Purkey’s direction, Junction Avenue Theatre Company created a number of significant South African plays which included The Fantastical History of a Useless Man, Randlords and Rotgut, Tooth and Nail and, most notably, Sophiatown, which has enjoyed considerable national and international success.

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Art of he Market Theatre Foundation partners with a range of embassies and diplomatic missions that recognizes as pARTnership the world-order undergoes significant changeT it will be cultural exchange and cultural collaboration that will stand out as a powerful Each week in Buzz, the Market bridge to promote understanding between Theatre Foundation celebrates nations. the incredible pARTnerships that The Embassy of the Netherlands and the Market Theatre Foundation enjoy a long contribute to the growth of this relationship of collaboration that goes as far back institution and those whose brand as 1999 when the Embassy first funded courses at the Market Photo Workshop with a grant of R66 affiliation contributes to making 000. The relationship grew through 2000 – 2002, the Market Theatre Foundation 2007 and 2010/11 with funding amounting to a formidable leader in the art R2,082,550”, said Mahomed. of pARTnership brokering. In The Embassy of the Netherlands has also this edition we focus on our funded the work of the Market Theatre Laboratory by supporting the Township Schools Festivals partnership with the Embassy and the Community Theatre Development of the Kingdom of Netherlands. Programme with funding amounting to R2 510 086.

In 2017, the Market Theatre Foundation strengthened its relationship with the Embassy of the Netherlands through a weeklong festival that critically reflected and celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Culture in Another South Africa Festival that was held in Amsterdam. The Embassy funded the weeklong festival with a grant of R405 030. “Our partnership with the Embassy of the Netherlands goes beyond just delivering projects for grants that we receive from the Embassy. We share the value of co-creation”, says Ismail Mahomed, the CEO of the Market Theatre Foundation.

18 MARKET BUZZ Volume 3 No 02 8 April 2019 - 6 May 2019 19 THE DANCE MARKET WHAT’S T HEATRE FOUNDATION Strange Lands ON AT THE THEATRE In 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the founder and architect of Apartheid. Whether this was an act MARKET motivated by madness, or whether it was an action inspired by a political consciousness has been the subject of debate for decades. Was Dimitri a THEATRE confused loner, or was he a courageous freedom fighter? This thoroughly researched production presents the possibility that the deeply troubled FOUNDATION Tsafendas may have been a sane man living in a strange land. The Market Theatre Foundation where the city’s heart beats! has launched an exciting and diverse programme Strange Land is an important work which seeks that will offer wide range of offering for audiences. to restore South Africa’s repressed memory, while reflecting on contemporary concerns around Flemish Dance Seaspm in SA Flanders-based Les Ballets C de la B are For more details about the productions visit the Market issues of racial identification. It builds on the iconic world-renowned for their collaborative ventures Theatre Foundation website www.markettheatre.co.za, docu-drama Living in Strange Lands (2001), which has been revised and extended to reflect new and breaking down conventional barriers while www.webtickets.co.za or buy your ticket at any Pick ‘n Pay Hunter Gatherers store. information which has since come to light. placing multiculturalism at the epicentre of each Four life-long friends who share a wedding . work they create. Requiem pour L. confirms this anniversary are having their annual dinner get- For block bookings call DATES: Friday 24 May – in the best possible way: Mozart’s emblematic Anthony Ezeoke at 011 832 1641/083 246 4950 together. Lines between ancient rituals and urban Sunday 16 June 2019 swan song provides the perfect condition for living blur as an animal sacrifice kicks off the TIMES: Tuesday to Saturday 20:15 & an unprecedented fusing of musical traditions celebrations, followed by a little more deception, Sunday 15:15 from lands across Europe and Africa. Under the sex, revelations, wrestling and dancing than VENUE: Barney Simon direction of composer Fabrizio Cassol, fourteen previous years. A darkly comic evening where musicians from different continents reworked horror and hilarity are the ideal antidote to the Mozart’s Requiem fusing the classical masterpiece sterility of the modern Joburg lifestyle. Oh, and frontières with jazz, opera, popular African music, and not everyone lives long enough to enjoy the lyrics in Latin, Lingala and Swahili. Director and frontières is a production of personal story brownies for dessert… choreographer Alain Platel augment this modern telling focused on migration. It interrogates the interpretation by visually and physically translating DATES: Tuesday 9 – Sunday 14 April 2019 ‘authenticity of voice’, as actors tell the stories the images and associations the requiem evokes TIMES: Tuesday and Saturday 20:15 collected and told to the writer by migrants from the funeral hymn to the mass grave in which Sunday 15:15 from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, the DRC and Mozart himself was dumped to build a visual VENUE: MANNIE MANIM Somalia/South Sudan/Eritrea. The actors come world of death and ritual for the musicians and from the country in question and speak in a dancers to inhabit. Requiem pour L and (B) is a range of different languages, which will be used deeply philosophical work that translates our and translated in the performance. The themes anxieties about mortality into art and poignantly Die Rypmaakkamer and images are borders, fences, walls, bribes, offers a glorification of the lives and deaths that Spring 1944, seven Soldiers have been captured detention, cages, borders of the mind, protection we cannot control. by the Nazis, stripped naked and abandoned in of colonial borders. frontières gives voice to the locked empty cellar of a monastery. Deprived people as individuals, far removed from the DATES: REQUIEM POUR L of all ties to their world, the prisoners redefine images of hundreds of people, walking, on boats, Tuesday 28 – Wednesday 29 April their concept of order and human nature. In in rivers, - moving, faceless, nameless. The play (B) order to survive, the men resort to murder and is intimate and envelopes the audience, ‘it could Friday 31 June – Saturday 1 June cannibalism. be me’. TIMES: Tuesday and Saturday 20:15 DATES: Friday 7 - Sunday 30 June 2019 DATES: Friday 14 – Sunday 30 June 2019 Sunday 15:15 TIMES: Tuesday to Saturday 20:00 & TIMES: Tuesday to Saturday 20:15 & VENUE: MANNIE MANIM Sunday 15:00 Sunday 15:15 VENUE: John Kani VENUE: Mannie Manim 20 MARKET BUZZ Volume 3 No 02 8 April 2019 - 6 May 2019 21 STREET THEATRE

Maboneng Street Performance Kwasha! Theatre Company in collaboration with the Centre for the Less Good Idea will work with acclaimed Austrian performance artist Oliver Hangl on a choreographed street performance that will enliven the streets of Maboneng. EXIT/EXISTS DATES: Saturday 6 April 2019 Choreographed by Gregory Maqoma 14:00 BOOK AND TALK EVENTS TIMES: The core of this piece is memory; rephrasing VENUE: Fox Street in Maboneng the notion of existence and the notion of simply existing in order to exist. Exit/Exist takes a Anthology of Scenes and Monologues moment to pause; to look back; to rewind the Together with Monageng ‘Vice’ Motshabi, the tape to the days when the tapestry of South Africa EXHIBITIONS Market Theatre Laboratory has compiled and was about the collision of biographies. Maqoma, created a book of contemporary South African MULTI-DISCIPLINARY a renowned chief of the Xhosa nation is at odds Kewpie: Daughter of District Six monologues and scenes with the intention of with the English over the possession of cattle. The The Market Photo Workshop is honoured giving performing arts students a new range of AfriCouture-AfriCuisine animosity that was brewing at the time left us with to host the personal collection of Kewpie, a relevant work to cut their teeth on. The anthology Afrofuturism is the theme for an afternoon a body of work that Vuyani Dance Theatre has hairdresser and drag queen who lived in cape contains work that has thoughtfully been selected of exploring African cuisine in and around the used in putting together Exit/Exist. Town’s District Six. This exhibition is in partnership to be inclusive of a diversity of languages, Hillbrow area in a food market, accompanied by a characters and subject matters that reflect our fashion and crafts market. DATES: Thursday 9 – Sunday 19 May 2019 with the GALA Queer Archives at the University modern South African society from some of South TIMES: Tuesday to Saturday 20:00 of the Witwatersrand. The exhibition will be DATES: Saturday 18 May Africa’s most interesting emerging and established & Sunday 15:00 augmented with public programmes that will be TIMES: 12:00 – 16:00 playwrights. VENUE: John Kani scheduled during the duration of the exhibition. VENUE: Windybrow Arts Centre DATES: Saturday 21 April 2019 Join us at the launch when Kwasha Theatre TIMES: 20:00 Company will be performing selected pieces VENUE: John Kani Exploring the Diaspora from the anthology. MUSIC Mending the Middle Passage Dialogue DATES: Thursday 6 June 2019 followed by musical performances TIMES: 18:30 DATES: Saturday 25 May International Jazz Day SA Abavumi VENUE: Ramolao Makhene Theatre Jazz Choral and Drum STUDENT THEATRE TIMES: 11:00 to 16:00 International Jazz Day SA programme curated VENUE: Windybrow Arts Centre by Sibongile Khumalo with a theme Carrying Dossier So Now? Children’s Parliament Roots through Routes. Re-imagining Taiwa. This by Iker Oritz de Zerate Children are invited to engage in a discussion event is a prominent lead up to 2020 International Following successful workshops in previous with Windybrow youth about what kind of leaders Jazz Day when the world will descend upon South years with the Market Laboratory students, they would like to be. Africa. Spanish playmaker Iker Oritz de Zerate returns to DATES: Wednesday 15 June Saturday 21 April 2019 Johannesburg to work with the Market Theatre DATES: TIMES: 11:00 20:00 Laboratory students as well as stage his one- TIMES: VENUE: Windybrow Arts Centre VENUE: John Kani man performance So What now? Theatre for two nights only. DATES: Thursday 24 &Friday 25 April TIMES: 19:00 VENUE: Ramolao Makhene Theatre

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Bronx Documentary Centre The Market Photo Workshop will be exhibiting Currently (G)old a selection of work from alumni at the Bronx Devised & Performed by Documentary Centre in New York. This exhibition Kwasha Drama Company will showcase the work of the Photojournalism and Directed by: Documentary Photography Programme students Sinenhlanhla Mgeyi & Aalliyah Matintela that was created from 2014 – 2018. The work Mentored by Prince Lamla will give New Yorkers a glimpse into the social, Following the success of their run at the Ramolao political, economic, cultural and religious climate Makhene Theatre during Human Rights week, the of Johannesburg and outlying areas within this Kwasha Theatre Company bring their brand new period. work to the POPArt Theatre in Maboneng. DATES: Opening: Sunday 17 April Closing: Tuesday 26 May Do the youth of South Africa know what their Human Rights are?

Le Journal Set against the backdrop of South Africa’s 2nd Year Laboratory Students at National Arts current socio-political context this play explores Festival directed by Chris Djuma and Dintshitile how young South Africans perceive their Human Mashile. The 2nd year Market Theatre Laboratory Rights. The play uses satire to interrogate and at students will take an all new devised work to the times ridicule their relevance in real life. National Arts Festival in Makhanda (Grahamstown) DATES: Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 April 2019 Where do news headlines go to die? One TIMES: 20:00 moment the headline is everywhere and can’t VENUE: POPArt Theatre be escaped, and then the next moment it has disappeared. Le Journal looks at the world of the neglected newsreel and the disposability of Market Theatre Laboratory and these news subjects to explore themes of identity, POPArt present a season of work at propaganda, individuality, control and agency. POPArt Le Journal asks the question whether the news is used to serve or control the people? Now in a 5th year of a flourishing partnership between The Market Theatre Laboratory and the DATES: Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 June 2019 POPArt Theatre, the Market Theatre Laboratory is VENUE: National Arts Festival proud to present two brand new works at POPArt this May. Performed by the Market Theatre Lab 2nd year students under the guidance of professional directors, How to Crack a Coconut directed by Khutjio Green and written by Market Theatre Laboratory alumni Ncumisa Ndimendi and directed by Maude Sandham.

As part of this partnership, the Students are put through the paces of a ‘Business in theatre’ course where they learn the essential skills required to produce independent theatre, at the same time as making the works.

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Netherlands Embassy & Ministry visit to the Market Theatre Foundation Opening night Tribangi Dance theatre - ©Ngoma Ka Mphahlele - ©Ngoma Ka Mphahlele

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Visit by President Cyril Ramaphosa ©Morris Mohanoe

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