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Athol Fugard a Man with Many Talents 16 April - 22 April 2018 1 2 MARKET BUZZ Volume 2 No 20 10 Athol Fugard a Man With Many Talents From Boesman and Lena to Tsotsi, Athol Fugard has left an everlasting mark on stages and screens in South Africa and abroad 12 Meet the Award Winning Creative Team for The Train Driver A look at the incredibly succesful careers of Charmaine Weir-Smith, John Kani and Dawid Minaar 14 Gold Medal for John Kani and Ohter Cover Image: 75 The Shadow Of The Legends Hummingbird - Jul 2014 Celebrated South African actor, writer and director has added one more prestigious award to his string of accolades 16 8 Working Behind the 5 Athol@86: A Scenes on the Final Editor’s Note Celebration of a Farewells of the In this week’s Market BUZZ, Prolific and often Mandela Legends we celebrate Athol Fugard and look at the exciting Produced Playwright The Market Theatre Athol@86 season which will The Market Theatre Foundation’s Audience feature The Train Driver and celebrates the iconic work of Engagement Strategist, Nongogo, while also wishing Athol Fugard in Athol@86, a Yusrah Bardien reports from bon voyage to the head of season dedicated to behind the scenes at the the Market Photo Workshop Athol Fugard Mandela funerals 16 April - 22 April 2018 1 THE MARKET BUZZ 18 32 TEAM International National Theatre Partnership Leading Live at the Ramolao WRITERS: the Photographic Makhene Theatre Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu (Senior Publicist) World Zama Sweetness Buthelezi (Brand and Communications Manager) Clara Vaughan (Market Laboratory Head) Yusrah Bardien 20 34 (Audience Development) Market Theatre Market Theatre and Anthony Ezeoke (Audience Development) Laboratory Pop Art Theatre Go Ismail Mahomed Spreads Wings in In-Residence (Market Theatre Foundation CEO) Mpumalanga COMPILATION AND PICTURES: Thato Kobile (Digital Communications Officer) 22 36 EDITORS: At the Exclusive Live at the Market Zama Sweetness Buthelezi Books Pan-African Theatre... (Brand and Communications Manager) Ismail Mahomed Reading Room... (Market Theatre Foundation CEO) LAYOUT AND DESIGN: Ryan Lloyd 24 (Graphic Design Intern) Market Tours PHOTOGRAPHERS: Siphosihle Mkhwanazi Michael Phasha 26 Msizi Nkosi Sibikwa Total Thandazile Zwelibanzi Photography Training Project 2018 Public Showcase 30 Archiving the Market Theatre 2 MARKET BUZZ Volume 2 No 20 The Market Theatre Foundation is an agency of the Department of Arts & Culture THE MARKET T HEATRE FOUNDATION THE THE THE MARKET MARKET THE MARKET WINBRW T HEATRE T HEATRE PHOTO ARTS CENTRE LABORATORY WORKSHOP 16 April - 22 April 2018 3 4 MARKET BUZZ Volume 2 No 20 Editor’s Note In this week’s Market BUZZ, we celebrate Athol Fugard and look at the exciting Athol@86 season which will feature The Train Driver and Nongogo, while also wishing bon voyage to the head of the Market Photo Workshop - Zama Sweetness Buthelezi (Brand and Communications Manager) thol Fugard is one of the world’s most Workshop as he embarks on a short trip to celebrated and prolific playwrights. participate as a reviewer in the 6th Annual New Several of his plays have been staged York Portfolio Review, by The New York Times Lens at the Market Theatre. As he turns Blog, the City University of New York Graduate 86A this year, the Market Theatre’s artistic director, School of Journalism and United Photo Industries. James Ngcobo, will celebrate this renown The review takes place on Saturday April 21 and playwright in the Athol@86 season comprising of Sunday the 22 April 2018. The Train Driver and the Nongogo. In this issue of BUZZ, readers can find out more about this Enjoy this week’s edition of BUZZ as we share special season. wih you what’s going on and what’s hot! The Market Theatre Foundation also wishes bon voyage to the head of the Market Photo Enjoy this week’s edition of BUZZ. 16 April - 22 April 2018 5 6 MARKET BUZZ Volume 2 No 20 16 April - 22 April 2018 7 Athol@86: A celebration of a Prolific and Often Produced Playwright The Market Theatre celebrates the iconic work of Athol Fugard in Athol@86, a season dedicated to Athol Fugard - Ismail Mahomed - Photo: 78 The Shadow Of The Hummingbird - Jul 2014 8 MARKET BUZZ Volume 2 No 20 he Market Theatre will present and Other Stories, yet it was only a while later Nongogo and one Fugard’s later that it was conceptualized into a play. plays, The Train Driver (2009), in Athol@86, a season that celebrates In Fugard’s imaginary play inspired by the theT iconic dramatist’s work as he turns 86 this horrific event, a tormented train driver is year. compelled to visit a makeshift graveyard in the middle of nowhere, determined to find the For over half a century the internationally unmarked grave of the woman he unintentionally celebrated playwright Athol Fugard created killed. The Train Driver directed by Charmaine iconic South African plays featuring home Weir Smith will star award winning actor and grown narratives. Despite South African Fugard’s long-time friend John Kani alongside drama’s vulnerability to censorship before Dawid Minaar. The Train Driver will run from 4 1994, he produced plays May to 3 June 2018. defiantly indicting the country’s apartheid’s policy. His work post- “For over half Fugard’s sobering yet 1994, has been mostly reflective a century the entertaining play, Nongogo, and often more personal than about a 1950s shebeen, in political. internationally which society’s misfits drink to celebrated playwright remember and drink to forget Now resident in the USA, Athol Fugard created will be directed by James the giant wordsmith from the Ngcobo. The production city of Port Elizabeth moved to iconic South African delivering a delightful and Johannesburg in 1958, where plays featuring home captivating piece that is rich and he worked as a clerk in a Native grown narratives. ” rife with unfulfilled hopes, dark Commissioners’ Court. It was secrets, jealousy and with flaring in Johannesburg that Fugard tempers, grim chuckles and organised, wrote and produced his early plays, wistful longings will feature a star-studded cast of No Good Friday (1958) and Nongogo (1959). Vusi Kune, Zikhona Sodlaka, Bongani Gumede, Zenzo Ngqobe and Peter Mashigo. Nongogo The Athol@86 season will kick off with The will be at the Market Theatre from 15 June to 15 Train Driver, a haunting mesmerizing and deeply July 2018. personal journey into the human soul. The play was inspired by the true event of Pumla Lolwana The Market Theatre’s Athol@86 season who, in December 2000, pulled her three comprising of two of the playwright’s richly human children close to her body and stepped in front of plays that challenge his audience to confront and a train on the railway tracks between Philippi and address social injustice will articulate why Athol Nyanga on the Cape Flats. The horrific situation Fugard remains one of the world’s most prolific was first captured in Fugard’s notebook, Karoo and often produced playwrights. 16 April - 22 April 2018 9 Athol Fugard a Man With Many Talents From Boesman and Lena to Tsotsi, Athol Fugard has left an everlasting mark on stages and screens in South Africa and abroad - Ismail Mahomed & Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu - Photo: 79 The Shadow Of The Hummingbird - Jul 2014 thol Fugard was born in 1932 His plays include Blood Knot, Boesman and in Middelburg in the Karoo. An Lena, Master Harold and the Boys, The Train internationally acclaimed playwright Driver, The Blue Iris and The Shadow of the director and occasional actor, for Hummingbird. Many of his works have been overA half a century he has written almost forty turned into films with director Gavin Hood’s soul-searing plays with roles for all South Africans Tsotsi, based on his 1980 short story of the same which have moved audiences in South Africa name, won the 2005 Academy Award for Best and around the world to laughter and tears as Foreign Language Film – South Africa’s first they reflected the inhumanity of apartheid. Academy award in this category. Fugard’s plays champion truth and a Fugard’s work spans the period of apartheid fundamental universal humanity. In 2011 he in South Africa, through the first democratic received the ultimate recognition from the elections, to Nelson Mandela’s presidency and world’s most prestigious theatre community – a into present-day, post-apartheid South Africa. Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre. He is also the author of four books and several screenplays. 10 MARKET BUZZ Volume 2 No 20 16 April - 22 April 2018 11 Meet the Award Winning Creative Team for The Train Driver A look at the incredibly succesful careers of Charmaine Weir-Smith, John Kani and Dawid Minnaar - Lusanda Zokufa-Kathilu - Brett Rubin Charmaine Weir-Smith: Director Charmaine’s directing credits include: The Vita Charmaine is an award-winning actress, nominated musical I Love you, You’re Perfect, director and writer. She has performed in and Now Change, Annie – Vita Award for Best directed over 40 theatre productions. Charmaine Musical Production, Sic, Big Band Blast – Naledi spent the early years of her career with the Natal Award for Best Musical, Captain Entertainment Playhouse Company, where she performed a – Naledi Award Best Revue, Paul Slabolepszy’s variety of coveted roles from Ophelia in Hamlet Freak Country, Tale of the Allergists Wife and - Vita Award for Best Supporting Actress, Daisy Glorious all for The Theatre on the Square. in The Young Visitors – Vita Nomination for Best Actress, Agnes in Agnes of God, Kitty in Charlie’s Charmaine is a well-known television actress Aunt, and Em in Story of an African Farm. playing a variety of roles in Binnelanders, Isidingo and most recently in Scandal.
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