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2 CONTENTS 4 Festival Messages 255 2016 Call for Proposals EASTERN CAPE 6 Acknowledgements 260 Booking Procedures SHOWCASE 8 Index 261 Map 47 Music 12 Standard Bank Young 54 Artist Award Winners ARENA PROGRAMME 112 Exhibitions 15 2015 Featured Artist 41 Dance of the Year 92 Theatre 17 17 Main Programme SOLO SEASON 27 95 Student Theatre 88 Theatre 152 Fringe Programme 256 Village Green MAIN AT A GLANCE 55 71 DANCE 17 MUSIC 27 88 JAZZ 55 102 THEATRE 71 SOLO THEATRE 88 95 STUDENT THEATRE 95 104 PERFORMANCE ART 102 VISUAL ART 104 116 THINK!FEST 116 127 FILM 127 PUBLIC ART 142 142 FAMILY FARE 147 147

2015 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME UPDATE We will be publishing an update to our Programme which will be available in Grahamstown throughout the Festival, at all of our Box Offices and Information Kiosks. This pocket- sized booklet will contain updated information on performances and events, changes, cancellations and additional shows, a daily diary map, local emergency services number, etc and is a must-have for all Festival-goers. 3

160 FRINGE AT A GLANCE 153 DANCE 160 PHYSICAL THEATRE 153 168 POETRY 171 171 ILLUSION 173 DRAMA 198 COMEDY 168 173 226 FAMILY FARE 226 231 CABARET & MUSIC THEATRE 235 CLASSICAL 231 MUSIC 198 241 236 236 CONTEMP- ORARY MUSIC 241 FILM 243 VISUAL ART 235 254 254 SPIRITFEST

Disclaimer: The Festival organisers have made every effort to ensure that everything printed in this publication is accurate. However, mistakes and changes do occur, and we do not accept any responsibility for them or for any inaccuracies or misinformation within advertisements. Artists provide images, logos and advertisements and we accept no responsibility for the 243 quality of reproduction in this publication. 4 LAUNCH YOURSELF INTO THIS FEAST Ayanda Mjekula, Chairman: National Arts Festival Board

here was always a risk Young Curator, Lerato Bereng, see them support us through Tthat, after our special on the Visual Arts programme; until the end of 2017. To them 40th birthday celebrations in by turning the spotlight onto – and to our other friends, 2014, the Festival this year freedom of speech through sponsors, supporters and would feel like something of Satire; and by including a host partners, most notably the an anticlimax. I’m happy to of productions from not just National Department of Arts say, though, that our team but the rest of the and Culture; National Lottery have pulled a spectacular continent and the world. Distribution Trust Fund; programme out of the bag Eastern Cape Department and, if anything, this year’s These initiatives all serve of Sports, Recreation, Arts Festival promises to be more to help us view the world and Culture; MNET and City exciting than ever, with plenty through fresh eyes, and to Press as well as our two to get your heart racing and to challenge our everyday radio partners, SAfm and move you in a way that only thinking anew. Classic FM, we say thank the arts can. you for injecting resources, No less important to the intellectual capital and, most Reinvention is critical to an sustainability of the arts is the importantly, passion into the institution such as ours, as contribution of our sponsors. arts through the Festival. is constant reflection and And so we are especially innovation. And so I am grateful to Standard Bank And that leaves nothing for delighted that we are seeing who, this year, have renewed you, our audience, to do the creative team push those their commitment to the apart from launching yourself boundaries even further this Festival by entering into a into this feast and having an year – by including a Featured new 3-year contract that will amazing time with us. CELEBRATE THE LIVELY AND PULSATING RHYTHMS OF SOUTH AFRICAN CULTURE Dr Pemmy Majodina, MEC for Sport, Recreation, Art & Culture, Province of The Eastern Cape

rom the open and humble fields of are inspired by the poets, dramatists and FQunu in the Eastern Cape, Nelson writers who craft their stories drawing from Rolihlahla Mandela grew up to become an the ethos that Madiba advocated. We are internationally celebrated and respected moved by the diverse forms of creativity icon of the struggle against apartheid and all and cultural expressions that give young forms of racism. It is also here in the Eastern audiences a sense of hope. After all, it is the Cape where he came to find his final resting future of young people that was often at the place where his triumphant spirit can inspire heart of why Madiba never gave up on his and nurture our ongoing commitment for struggle. social transformation. This year, the Eastern Cape Department Madiba, as he was affectionately known, of Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture has was passionate about the arts. He dedicated its programme of performances acknowledged the role that the arts have and exhibitions to celebrate Madiba’s spirit played in South Africa’s liberation struggle. of freedom, forgiveness, reconciliation and In a post-apartheid society, he called on triumph. These universal values will be South Africa’s artists to use their talents powerfully expressed in the Eastern Cape and creativity to heal our society from its Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts & past; and to offer solutions to the many Culture’s Indigenous Ensemble Concerts, challenges that arise as we continue Arts Exhibition, Crafts Exhibition, Word to transform our society. For the past Fest programme and the Jazz at Dakawa two decades, South African artists have programme. celebrating the vibrant and pulsating responded to Madiba’s call with passion, rhythms of South African culture and to give integrity and excellence. The 2015 Festival takes place against the to the Festival’s visitors – both local and background of celebrations of twenty-one international – stimulating experiences that Madiba’s values, as a president, international years of democracy, and sixty years of The will draw them back to experience even peacemaker, statesman and Nobel Peace Freedom Charter. It is true that this Festival greater parts of our province. Prize winner give the Eastern Cape province has opened the doors of education and – his birthplace and the place of his burial culture to all South Africans. I take this opportunity to thank the – an undisputable sense of pride. We rejoice National Arts Festival for driving a dynamic in being both custodians and advocates of As you gather at the Festival in programme that contributes to the local his legacy. Grahamstown, I also urge you to consider economic development and the Provincial experiencing the richness and cultural Growth and Development Strategy which We are grateful to the many musicians diversity that makes the Eastern Cape a assists to combat poverty and to stimulate who continue to keep his legacy alive truly unique province. I urge our artists the economic growth in the Province of the through the songs that they compose. We and crafters to rise to the challenge of Eastern Cape. 5 CELEBRATING OUR BRIGHTEST AND OUR BEST Sim Tshabalala and Ben Kruger, Chief Executives, Standard Bank Group

nce again The National Arts Festival This is a wonderful place for young people Ohas arrived and the Standard Bank to discover the arts and to grow audiences Group looks forward to the exciting arts for the future and so we’re very pleased to journey that lies ahead as Grahamstown be able to keep the Festival – and South doubles its population for 11 days. Africa’s cultural life – moving forward.

Over the years the Festival has served as Rooted in Africa, Standard Bank has made a rich and diverse representation of South a firm commitment to continue its support Africa’s cultural landscape. It plays a vital and make a difference. We firmly believe role in the artistic life of our country while that the Festival is one of South Africa’s also providing a vibrant meeting point for treasures – a working model of what African and global artistic communities to we all want South Africa to be: vibrantly come together and share their talent. creative, deeply African and confidently cosmopolitan. Standard Bank’s association with this iconic cultural event dates back to 1984 Important, too, is that Standard Bank when we became the title sponsor, with places great value in being in a position, the Eastern Cape Government joining us created by the Festival, to support and 12 years ago. stimulate the economy of the greater Grahamstown area and of the Eastern We are delighted to continue our annual Cape Province. sponsorship of the Standard Bank Jazz Festival which includes the National Youth On behalf of Standard Bank, we would like Jazz Festival; the Standard Bank Young to thank everyone involved in making the Artist Awards; the Children’s Festival; the Festival the success it is. daily newspaper Cue and the Standard Bank Ovation Awards which celebrate the Here’s to a celebration of our brightest and best of the Fringe. our best.

VIBRANT FORCE FOR ADVOCACY AND CHALLENGING THE CONSCIENCE Message from the Artistic Committee

he 2015 programme of the National challenged, delighted and inspired by them. international collaborations. Whilst we TArts Festival has been shaped by retain our long held partnerships with diverse threads: the heated national debate The Featured Artist of 2015 is the genre of companies and festivals in Europe, our surrounding the legacies of South African “Satire”. We hereby honour South Africa’s relationships with other countries on the history; significant anniversaries of a number satirists, cartoonists, commentators and African continent and with Latin America of arts icons; the global public engagement court jesters. The limits of free expression are expanding. We continue to engage with concerning the limits of creative liberty; and in South Africa are being tested. Our satiric visiting international artistic directors and the Festival’s commitment to free expression artists, who reflect our society in a glittering producers who have embraced the Festival and to human dignity. mirror, need the support of a platform such as a market for scouting South African as the National Arts Festival more than ever. creative excellence. We pride ourselves on providing 2015 is significant: it is the 20th anniversary opportunities for South African artists to of the inauguration of the South African The Fringe programme retains its vitality take creative risks in expressing themselves Constitutional Court and its Section 9 with over 300 productions, featuring works with integrity about matters that concern institutions, which protect our human rights that grapple with tough topics such as arts them. We recognise the arts as vibrant and in particular our freedom funding, social demographics, political forces for advocacy and for challenging of expression. correctness and gender politics, and a good the conscience of our nation; and we firmly dose of hilarious and quirky fun too. believe that the arts play a significant role We continue to bring about innovations in healing the wounds of our country and to our programme: we are happy to Working towards shaping each year’s building a more cohesive society. announce the inaugural Featured Arts programme is exciting and compelling. Icon programme, which pays homage to We applaud the artists who apply their The Standard Bank Young Artist productions some of the country’s most important living creative powers to envision solutions to the have been the keystone of the Festival and past legends; and in our visual arts challenges of our young democracy; and Programme for more than 30 years. programme, we have initiated the Featured who reinforce our collective belief in the These awards underline our passion for Curator programme to showcase and importance of the arts. celebrating clear new voices and talents in advance the careers of notable young our country. The works by this year’s award curators. We express our appreciation to our funders, winners range from re-imaginings of classics and to you, our audiences, who return each to fresh experimentations. We wish these As always, two of our top prioirities are year to be nurtured by the arts, and to renew artists well with their productions, and are the presentation of excellent South your commitment to the cultural life of our confident that you, our audiences, will be African productions and the fostering of country. 6 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

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WITH THANKS TO: South African Police Service #cocreateSA Standard Bank for loan of computers BOARD OF DIRECTORS: African Festival Network Standard Bank Gallery Albany & Bathurst Engineering Stevenson Gallery Ayanda Mjekula (Chairperson) Albany Museum Group Ster-Kinekor Elinor Sisulu (Deputy Chairperson) Alliance Français Southern Africa Swallows Foundation Jay Pather Amsterdam Fringe Swedish Arts Council Paul Bannister Argentine Ministry of Foregn Affairs & Worship Swedish Jazz Federation Letepe Maisela Arts Council Norway Swiss Embassy Grahame Lindop Artsource South Africa Transnet Port Authority Albie Sachs ASSITEJ SA Twist Theatre Development Projects Athenaeum US Embassy Sikkie Kajee Auto & General Theatre on the Square Video Vision Tony Lankester (CEO) Bid Air Cargo Village Green Committee Geoff Antrobus (Foundation British Council World Fringe Alliance Representative) Cadar Printers Canada Council for the Arts The Managements, Presenting Companies, Audit Committee: Theatre Association Galleries, Artists and Technical Staff whose Sikkie Kajee (Chairperson) Churches of Grahamstown talent, professionalism and creativity make Grahame Lindop Cinemark the Festival a pleasure to produce, and Henry Cronje Clover Aardklop Festival an amazing 11 days for our audiences to CO Colombia experience. DALRO Dance Forum The Schools and Colleges of Grahamstown: Danish Arts Foundation Carinus Arts Centre, Diocesan School for NATIONAL ARTS Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) Girls, Graeme College, Kingswood College, FESTIVAL ARTISTIC Electrosonic Nombulelo Secondary School, Khutliso COMMITTEE 2015: Embassy of Argentina Daniels Secondary School, P J Olivier Embassy of in SA Hoërskool, St Andrew’s College, St Andrew’s Jay Pather (Dance) Embassy of Colombia Preparatory, Victoria Girls’ High School, Gregory Maqoma (Dance) Embassy of Victoria Preparatory School, and Oatlands Adrienne Sichel (Dance, Arts Embassy of Primary School. Development) Embassy of Embassy of The Citizens of Grahamstown for their Richard Cock (Music) Embassy of the People’s Republic of China hospitality, support and encouragement. Mokale Koapeng (Music) Embassy of Uruguay Bongani Tembe (music) Eastern Cape Provincial Arts & Culture Council National Arts Festival Team: Brett Bailey (Theatre) (ECPACC) Tony Lankester (CEO) Malcolm Purkey (Theatre) East Norway Jazz Centre Ismail Mahomed (Artistic Director) Aubrey Sekhabi (Theatre) ETC Kate Axe Davies (Festival Manager) Phyllis Klotz (Theatre) European Union Commission Zikhona Nweba (Fringe Manager) Dominic Thorburn (Visual Art) French Institute in South Africa (IFAS) Jayne Claire Burden (Fringe Assistant) Nomusa Makhubu (Visual Art) Goethe Institute Selina White (Village Green Director) Mandie van der Spuy (Visual Art) Goodman Gallery Clarissa Carolus (Village Green Assistant) Brenton Maart (Visual Art) Grahamstown Hospitality Guild Trevor Steele Taylor (Film) Gravel Road Entertainment Group Nicci Spalding (Technical Director) Anthea Garman (Think!Fest) Italian Embassy in South Africa Ryan Bruton (Operations Manager) Alan Webster (Jazz) Italian Institute of Culture Guy Nelson (Production Manager) John & Charles Bell Trust Michelle Lowry (Production Manager) SPONSORS’ REPRESENTATIVES High Commission of Canada Lauren Fletcher (Production Assistant) Pragasen Chetty (Eastern Cape KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra Department Of Sports, Recreation, Line Out Akhona Daweti (Assistant Box Office Manager) Arts & Culture) Magnetic Storm Danielle Wessels (Receptionist & Social Hazel Chimhandamba & Mandela Bay Development Agency Secretary) Mary Lou Meese Youth Jazz Fund Carolyn Stevenson-Milln (Travel & Dianne Graney (Standard Bank) Members of the South African and International Accommodation Officer) Media Lynette Marais (Project Consultant) NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL Ministry of Education & Culture (Spain) Claudie van Deventer (Finance Manager) REPRESENTATIVES National Film & Video Foundation (NFVF) Ettienne Abrahams (Finance Assistant) Tony Lankester (CEO) Nu-Metro Ismail Mahomed (Artistic Director) Ontario Arts Council Gilly Hemphill (The Famous Idea Trading Kate Axe Davies (Festival Manager) PG Bison George Company) (Media and Public Relations) Pick ‘n Pay Walmer MEDIA REPRESENTATIVE Prague Fringe Festival Programme: Gilly Hemphill ProHelvetia Kate Axe Davies (Compilation & Editing) Province of Guandong (China) Brian Garman, Hannah McDonald – Rhodes Red Pepper Pictures University School of Journalism & Media Representation of Flanders Studies (Art Direction & Design) Royal Embassy in South Africa Caitlin Dominy, Sihle Mtshiselwa, Amy-Jane Royal Norwegian Embassy Harkess, Alex Maggs, Heather Greevelink, SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts Adrienne Weidner, Carissa Govender (Layout SGB – Cape Team) South African Music Rights Organisation Cadar Printers, Port Elizabeth (Printing) (SAMRO) Anne Taylor (Standard Bank Young Artists’ South African National Community Theatre copy) Association Zane Henry – (Copy Editing) 8 INDEX TO THE 2015 NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 10,000...... 173 Benjamin Jephta...... 62 Dear or: Madibaness ...... 233 1606...... 168 BeSpoke...... 198 Decameron, The / Il Decameron ...... 129 7090...... 236 Between Darkness And Light...... 106 Deep Fried Man Kills...... 200 ...if the world was listening...... 153 Between love and pain...... 175 Defending the Caveman...... 200 (He)Art of the Matter with the Big Boys II...... 198 Delia Funk Art...... 245 Best of Friends...... 32 Big Girls...... 199 Democracy Report...... 177 #ToyiToyi...... 153 Bitter Sweet Journey...... 175 Detritus for one...... 162 120 Days of Sodom – An Exhibition Bjaerv Encounters, The ...... 61 Devil and the Deep, The ...... 131 of New Art Work ...... 128 Black, White & Coloured...... 199 Did she, didn’t she?...... 241 150 years of Wagner’s Tristan...... 116 Blaqseed...... 236 Divine Oscar, The...... 189 2-4-1 Double the Fun...... 226 Bleeding Rose ...... 138 Dog Days are Over, The...... 25 20 Years Later - The New Emergence...... 243 Blood Tied...... 175 Dogs, Gods and Other Things...... 245 3 Little Bitches, The...... 189 Blue...... 154 Doll’s House, A ...... 71 40 Stones in the Wall...... 243 Body Language II : The Mating Game...... 199 Don Laka...... 68 66 Nowhere Avenue...... 173 Boegoespruit Ext 25...... 101 Don’t Burn Your Sausage!...... 202 7 Deadly Sins...... 198 Bok...... 154 Don”t Shoot the Harbinger...... 99 Bokani Dyer Quintet...... 55 Double Bill: A (Sorta) Love Story...... 231 Bon Soir...... 199 Finney’s Ghost / Tripple...... 135 A Chain of Voices:The prose Boo! with Chris Chameleon...... 236 Double Bill: oeuvre of Andre Brink...... 116 Borderline...... 199 Spring and Fall & Le Sacre...... 18 A Part Hate A Part Love ...... 73 Born in the RSA...... 78 Double-Bill: Ababhemu...... 243 Box Comedy, The...... 215 Synapses & Broken Chant...... 162 Abraham...... 136 Boy – A note to a Generation...... 92 Dr Stef’s Sidesplitting Hypnosis...... 202 Acacatear Music...... 236 Brothers...... 176 Dreams...... 162 Acoustic Liquid...... 236 Brothers, The...... 240 Duncan Park...... 238 Acoustic Singer Songwriters – Majozi, Bruce Little Originals...... 245 Dying Light...... 177 Umle and Hatchetman...... 48 Bullying...... 161 Dying of the Light ...... 135 Acoustiq Assassins...... 236 Butlers and Babysitters...... 200 Dylan Moran Off the Hook ...... 82 Actress & Girl...... 160 Adapt or Die ...... 137 Canterbury Tales, The / I Racconti di Eagles...... 155 Admission Reserved...... 101 Canterbury...... 129 Earth Dialogue...... 245 Advancing Backwards...... 243 Cape Mongo ...... 142 Eastern Cape Handmade African Times ...... 74 Cape of Rebels...... 93 Craft Exhibition...... 113 Afro Breeze...... 236 Comedy Club Presents...... 200 Eastern Cape Visual Arts ...... 112 After Dark in the Groot Marico...... 160 Carinus Celebrated Artists...... 245 EC Audio Visual Centre ...... 238 Akusenani...... 173 Carlo Mombelli & the Storytellers...... 55 Echo of a Noise, The ...... 73 aLEXA - A Mobile Thriller...... 173 Cartoon Competition...... 116 Edges...... 101 All Gone...... 160 Cat Sings Ella!...... 231 Edinburgh Fringe Presentation...... 116 Amalangabi WoMgido...... 153 Catalyst...... 168 Egazini Expressions...... 245 Amandla Freedom Ensemble...... 61 Celebrating African Music...... 45 El Blanco: Tales of the Mariachi...... 177 Amandla Freedom Ensemble...... 236 Cenotaph of Dan Wa Moriri, The...... 88 Elder of Azania, The...... 102 Another Day...... 161 Censorship, Satire & Freedom of Enough is Enough...... 162 Another Great Year For Fishing...... 81 Expression...... 116 Entrelazando Raíces...... 168 Ar’te-fakts are fictions...... 243 Changes...... 245 Europa...... 139 Arabian Nights / Il Fiore delle mille Character Door...... 176 Every Beautiful Thing...... 178 e una Notte ...... 129 Charlier/Sourisse Multiquarium Exhale...... 178 Arach-NO-Phobia...... 153 Quartet...... 59 Exhibition (Insanity)...... 178 Art @ The Highlander...... 245 Charmaine Haines – Contemporary Ceramic Art & Resistance ...... 128 Objet d’art exhibition...... 245 Faan se Trein...... 140 Art Walkabouts...... 114 Chasing Jaykb...... 238 Faces...... 178 Asanda Mqiki...... 236 Cheers to Broadway!...... 231 Faces in Spaces...... 178 Ashes...... 175 Chi-pin & Kai-ya Hsieh...... 60 Facets...... 245 Ashes to Ashes...... 100 Chomi...... 176 Falling: Triptych...... 100 Astonish...... 171 Citizen Four ...... 130 Farce about Uys...... 137 Atom...... 153 City Press Post-production Talks...... 116 Fatal...... 181 Auriol Hays...... 67 Closer to Home...... 161 Father, Father, Father!...... 162 Authors in Conversation...... 116 Cluster of the Harvest Choir...... 40 Fear of Loss, The...... 159 Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra, The ...... 31 Common Suspense...... 168 Finding Graham’s Town...... 241 Azlan Makalima...... 236 Conduct Unbecoming III...... 42 Fine Print Illustration Exhibition...... 245 Conversations With My Father...... 109 Fingo Festival...... 226 B!*ch Stole My Doek...... 198 Core, The...... 189 Florence...... 116 Bad Day To Go Fishing, Couch...... 176 Florence and Watson and the A / Mal Dia para Pescar...... 132 Crossing...... 176 Sugarbush Mouse...... 226 Bar None...... 198 Crying Souls...... 154 FLUX - an exhibition of new Barbe Bleue: A story about madness...... 161 Curl Up & Dye...... 177 and recent painting...... 245 Barbed Wire Wallpaper...... 154 Fly, Eagle, Fly!...... 163 Baterimba...... 43 Dakawa Music Programme...... 242 Forgiveness...... 241 Battleground...... 108 Dance Spectrum...... 155 Fort Art Exhibition...... 247 Bayhead...... 154 Dave Reynolds & Pops Mohamed...... 65 Fragile histories, Fugitive lives...... 105 Beatenberg...... 66 David Helbock Trio...... 64 Frame of Mind...... 171 Behind Closed Minds ...... 97 Deadliest Criminal In Jozi...... 177 Free? Prior? Consent? – Being Norm...... 161 Dear Breeder...... 200 Legal Resource Centre Debate...... 116 9

Free State Arts Talk ...... 247 Interplay...... 182 Lyftaal...... 26 Freedom...... 155 Into Eternity - A Film for the Future ...... 131 Freedom of Expression Intwaso...... 157 Magic through the Ages...... 171 in Broad Strokes...... 111 Inzilo (Its Behind Me)...... 182 Making Mandela...... 183 From A Distance...... 247 Isingqi SamaMpondomise...... 157 Maluju Zulu!...... 185 Full Morty, The...... 215 Island, The...... 189 Man and a Dog, A...... 173 Full Stops on Your Face (FSOYF)...... 93 It’s All About Light 4...... 249 Man Longing ...... 22 Fuller Life, A...... 135 Ithongo Lam...... 157 Man on the Line...... 241 Fun Fur Floral Feather...... 247 Masauko Chipembere of J’Zel (Student Theatre)...... 98 Blk Sonshine...... 238 Gala Concert ...... 30 J’zel (Fringe)...... 158 Masote’s Dream...... 86 Game Changer...... 181 Jannie Totsiens / Farewell Johnny ...... 136 Match Girl, The...... 100 Game of Groans...... 181 Jans Rautenbach Interview, The ...... 136 Max-Hoba...... 238 Gauteng Motjeko Dance...... 155 Jaojoby – King of Salegy...... 44 Medea...... 99 Get Attitude...... 181 Jazz Jam...... 56 Melancholia...... 139 Ghost of Glenmore...... 181 Jennefer Ann Gallery...... 251 Metamorphosis, The...... 191 Gift from God, A...... 160 Jika...... 182 Metting Between South American Gigs @ Rhodes Music Club...... 241 Jilted...... 158 Film Artists & South Africa, A ...... 132 Gigs @ The Vic...... 241 Jittery Citizens Improvised Comedy...... 202 MiCasa...... 52 Gingirikani Magaza and Tshigombela...... 155 Joe Bullet ...... 138 Midnight...... 185 Girls, The...... 189 Johan Hörlén...... 58 Miners Shot Down...... 140 Give Us This Day...... 233 Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny...... 183 Mintiro ya Vhulavhula: The Musical God’s Perfect Palette...... 247 Johnny Cradle...... 238 Deeds of Dr SJ Khosa...... 116 Gods Of Water, The / Jokes on you...... 203 Miracle in Rwanda...... 90 Los Dioses de Agua...... 133 Mirrored Flaws...... 185 Goosebump A Capella...... 235 Kaditshwene...... 234 Miss Margarida’s Way...... 90 Gospel According to St Matthew, The / Kafka and Son...... 183 Missing...... 91 Il Vangelo secondo Matteo...... 129 Kafka’s Ape...... 183 Mixed Motion...... 158 Great American Songbook...... 232 Kahn...... 238 Monotonous, The...... 221 Great Beauty / Kalahari Swaan...... 164 Morayks...... 239 La Grande Belleza, The ...... 135 Duet Returns, A...... 243 Morwa The Rising Son...... 185 Great Explorer, The...... 215 Kathlen Tagg & Andre Peteren Mosadi Lolea...... 185 Greatest Gift from Above, The...... 189 Piano Duo...... 34 Movi M...... 239 Guandong Puppet Art Theatre...... 150 Katrina...... 136 Mr Johnson Cooks...... 231 Kesivan & the Lights...... 63 Mr Kakende...... 185 Hamba Kahle...... 181 Killings of Tony Blair, The...... 130 Mr Kaplan...... 132 Hanamichi...... 163 Kind(s)...... 183 Mr. Pondo...... 203 Hard To Get...... 140 King of Ghosts...... 164 Musa Ngqungwana in Concert ...... 27 Hare Collectables...... 247 Kunle Ayo ...... 70 Music of Peter Klatzow, The...... 39 Hatchetman...... 238 KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic My People, My Church...... 234 Have You Seen Zandile?...... 181 Ensemble Concerto...... 36 Hear Me Move...... 138 KZNYO Classic Blast...... 235 Naked Knitting and Other Here . There...... 249 Contradictory Acts...... 207 Heroes and Villains Lake...... 228 Nat(urally) Caf(feinated)...... 207 A Children’s Concert ...... 46 Landscapes of Consequence, The...... 252 National Schools Big Band and Hirsch...... 89 Lanherne House Gallery...... 251 Schools Ensemble...... 64 History Will Break Your Heart...... 104 Last Attitude, The ...... 20 Nature’s Echo: Renewing our responsibility Home...... 157 Last Writes...... 251 to nature...... 251 Horror Story...... 99 Late-night Blues with the Ndebele Funeral...... 94 Hunabku / El Principio de Todo ...... 133 Boulevard Blues Band...... 66 Nduduzo Makhathini – Listening Hunger / Sult ...... 139 Lazy Susan...... 241 to the Ground...... 57 Lefa Mosea and Double Nduduzo Makhathini – Tribute...... 65 I Came, I Taught, I Left...... 202 Standards Quintet...... 238 Needle, The...... 191 I Have Life – Alison’s Journey...... 79 Legacy, The...... 189 NEEM Soul ...... 239 I have the right to...... 157 Life’s Greatest Questions...... 185 Never Too Naked...... 74 I want to cry...but this is not Light, The...... 191 Next Mrs Jacob Anderson, The...... 193 a place or time...... 181 Limits of Liberty ...... 130 Ngizwise...... 23 I.D.: Identical Destiny...... 181 Lindiwe Maxolo...... 66 Nine O’Clock...... 110 I’m Not Going to Rehab, I’m Going to Lionel Loueke in Collaboration...... 61 No Contest?!...... 207 Mauritius!...... 181 Lionel Loueke in Concert ...... 58 Nockturne...... 35 Ibuyambo...... 249 Listening Lounge...... 116 Nomfundo Xaluva...... 60 Identity Cohesion...... 249 Local Artists’Exhibition...... 251 Nomhle Nongogo and Band...... 239 ...... 163 Locking Horns with Earth and Sky...... 251 Nomzamo...... 185 Ilizwi...... 233 Loner, The...... 191 Non-racialism – Think!Fest Series Ill Manors ...... 131 Lord of the Flings...... 203 of talks & debates...... 116 Imagined Land, The ...... 75 Lost Soul - The Doomed Journey Noord!...... 97 In the Wings...... 182 of Richard Stanley’s Island of Not just another night at the Opera...... 37 In-between...... 233 Dr Moreau...... 135 Nymphomaniac – Volumes 1 ...... 139 Incredible Journey, The...... 228 Lotjhani Zinyanya ...... 158 Nymphomaniac – Volumes 2...... 139 Indalo (Family fare)...... 226 Love & Prozac...... 203 Indalo (exhibition)...... 249 Love Doctor, The...... 215 Old and the Beautiful, The...... 231 Inde Le Ndlela...... 233 Love for Nature...... 251 Old Man and the Sea, The...... 193 Indigenous Dance & Music Showcase.....159 LoveChild...... 238 ...... 68 Inn Time...... 182 LoveZero...... 26 Omo...... 158 Inqindi...... 163 Loyiso Gola Live - State of the nation...... 203 On seeing red and other fantasies...... 103 10

On The Beach...... 251 Shamie & Haroldene backed by Transparent...... 165 Once Upon a Fire...... 158 the AfricentiQ Band...... 240 Travels Around My Room...... 195 Oom Schalk, from the Heart 2...... 207 Short.Sharp.Stories...... 116 True Confusion...... 147 Open...... 185 Shortstraw ...... 49 Tumi Tdladi and Costa Tinch...... 240 Open Mike ...... 95 Shotgun Tori + the Hound...... 240 Open Spaces...... 251 Silent money...... 187 Ubizo - The Call...... 234 Orphan of Gaza, The...... 193 Silent Prints...... 158 UBOMI...... 196 Ottoman Slap: An Itinerant Tale Silver Creek Mountain Band...... 240 Ukuphuma kweGqirha...... 159 through Music and Dance...... 239 Similar To...... 92 Umbango...... 138 Simply Broadway...... 234 Umendo...... 196 Paint and Glass...... 251 Simply Sapiens...... 187 UMLE : Imoto eba abantwana...... 241 Painting by Meryl ...... 251 Singarevva and the Palace...... 187 Palettes in Nature...... 251 Sipho...... 228 Umlilo / Fire...... 159 PAND7090...... 94 Sipping Lapping Slap...... 159 Umongikazi / The Nurse...... 196 Pandora’s Box...... 134 Siva(seven)...... 17 Undermined...... 196 Pants on Fire 4...... 207 Six Inches...... 210 Undone...... 196 Pen, The...... 193 Siya Makuzeni...... 62 Unearthed...... 131 People are Living There...... 187 Skating on thin Uys...... 137 Unmute...... 159 Peter Dahlgren...... 57 Sleight of Mouth 1 : The Art of Talking Unontombi Musical Play...... 234 PHALL♂S...... 252 Your Way Out of Anything...... 210 Unravelling...... 95 Philip Malan...... 239 Sleight of Mouth 2 : Now Talk Your Untitled...... 159 Piet se Optelgoed...... 164 Way Out of This!...... 172 Pilcrow...... 164 Smaarties...... 187 Vampyr...... 134 Plebs...... 210 Snow Goose, The...... 195 Vaslav...... 197 Plot Hole, The...... 221 Soloist...... 145 Vat en Sit...... 197 Poems...... 41 Classics...... 67 Veil...... 197 Poet’s Reality, A...... 168 ’s finest Kings of Sbhujwa...... 159 Very Big Comedy Show III, The ...... 83 portrait of myself as my father...... 21 Stand Up 4 Comedy...... 214 VINYASA...... 253 Public Spaces – Think!Fest Series Standard Bank National Schools’ Violet Online...... 221 of talks & debates...... 116 Big Band...... 64 Standard Bank National Voice I Cannot Silence, A...... 77 Qadasi & Maqhinga...... 239 Youth Jazz Band...... 64 Void...... 98 Qhawe...... 165 State of the State – Think!Fest Vow, The...... 234 Series of talks & debates...... 116 Vuma Levin ...... 56 Raiders: The Musical...... 210 Staude SOW Exhibition...... 252 Ranga, The...... 221 Stay Away From Boys!...... 189 Waansin...... 87 Raw Meat...... 96 Steel Band Celebration...... 240 Wagner reading Wagner: Ray Phiri...... 50 Steve Newman & Ashish Joshi...... 240 Tristan & Isolde...... 170 Red...... 116 Still Funnier Than Them...... 214 Waltz...... 165 Red Earth Revisited...... 148 Stir, The...... 240 War & Peace...... 38 Rehilwe ...... 239 Stockholm Jazz Orchestra...... 60 War Donkey – The Polony Diaries...... 225 Return of Elvis du Pisanie, The...... 193 Stockholm Jazz Orchestra plays the Warrior on Wheels...... 228 Return of the Ancestors...... 187 Music of Ann-Sofi Söderqvist...... 63 Washerwoman and the Moon, The...... 228 Return of the Cypher, The...... 241 Stories Behind Bars: Art Behind Bars...... 234 Waterline...... 166 Rhodes Alumni Recitals...... 235 Strangely Normal / Normally Strange...... 214 Way We Were!, The...... 232 Rhodes Fine Art Student Exhibition...... 252 Stranger Things...... 214 We are all in the Same Shoes...... 166 Rhodes Music Staff Performances...... 235 Stuart Lightbody: Devilish...... 171 We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Rhodes University Jazz Quartet...... 239 Stuart Milne...... 240 Croissants: 7 Deadly New Stories Richard III...... 187 Suggestion Box #justsaying...... 142 Rights of Passage: Love and Loss Sunrise / A Song of Two Humans...... 134 for Consenting Adults...... 170 in the Time of Mandela...... 138 Surface...... 252 We Salute Madiba...... 47 Rise and Fall, The...... 195 Suster...... 189 What is African Literature Good For? Rite of Passage...... 158 Symphony Concert...... 28 Ranka Primorac...... 116 Romantic Songs of Love ...... 33 System, The...... 165 What the Water Gave Me...... 197 Rose Red...... 187 WhatWhat...... 225 Talk to the Hand...... 215 When We Were Nearly Young...... 225 Sacred Family / Tea...... 149 Who’s Your Daddy?...... 225 La Sagrada Familia...... 133 Tears of a Woman...... 189 Wish you were (t)here...... 170 Salo - The 120 Days of Sodom / Thandi Ntuli...... 59 Wish You Were Here...... 251 Salo - Le 120 Giornate di Sodoma ...... 128 ...... 53 Woman Alone...... 89 Salt...... 187 That’s what she said too...... 234 Woman with a Baby on her Back, The...... 195 Same Streep Different Day...... 210 Themba Shibase: Solo Exhibition...... 107 Woza Albert!...... 197 SAXIT...... 239 Thinking Spaces...... 253 Woza Sisi...... 116 School / Youth bands I...... 57 Three Blind Mice...... 76 School/Youth bands II...... 60 Tin Bucket Drum...... 195 ear of the Bicycle, The...... 195 School/youth bands III...... 62 Tit for Tat...... 195 Y Yes Really, Angel...... 225 Search for Authenticity: To Kill a Koeksister...... 221 Composing in a Time & Place...... 116 To Stand Somewhere: Confessions of YOBO: You’re Only Born Once...... 91 Searching for Somebody...... 187 a White Boy in the New South Africa...... 195 You Bet Your Life!...... 234 Secrecy & Surveillance – Think!Fest to4rm...... 96 Youth Jazz Choirs + Vocal soloists...... 64 Series of talks & debates...... 116 Tobacco, and the Harmful Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet...... 56 Sempre Brio...... 235 Effects Thereof...... 195 Seshego Gospel Choir...... 240 Tony Benn: Will and Testament ...... 130 Zoo Story, The...... 195 Shadow of a Poet, The...... 253 Tough Years...... 234 Zulu Crush Dialogues, The...... 116 Shakespeare Word Play...... 116 Tragedy of Hamlet, The...... 80 Zuma...... 138 11

ince 1995 the Embassy of the Kingdom of The SNetherlands has supported the presentation of more than 55 productions at the National Arts At the 2015 National Arts Festival with a strong presence of Festival, audiences can enjoy Dutch and South African artists the following projects supported FAMILY FARE engaging each other across by the Embassy through its theatre, dance, music, visual arts, dynamic #cocreateSA initiative. film, public art, Think! Fest and jazz. JAZZ

Red Earth Re-visited Page 148 ARENA #cocreateSA is a platform for South African and Dutch counterparts to exchange ideas and innovations for a sustainable future. If we work together, we can make a difference and co-create solutions for local challenges. Yuri Honing Quartet Join the conversation on Page 56 Twitter and Facebook.

THINK! FEST PAND7090 Page 94 FAMILY FARE

Cartoon Competition Page 121 THEATRE The Embassy promotes human rights advocacy through the arts by supporting the Adelaide Tambo Award for Human Rights presented to a Fringe and Student Theatre production. Tea Each year at least fifteen Page 149 community-based artists are supported to participate in the Remix Laboratory at the National Arts Festival. Masote’s Dream Page 86 12

NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI 2015 STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST FOR JAZZ

omposer and pianist Nduduzo my childhood memories, my heritage and CMakhathini was born in trying to define my history and my present”, uMgungungdlovo near Pietermaritzburg, while he attributes Sketches of Tomorrow to KwaZulu-Natal. With a pianist for a mother his children as it is about “painting pictures and a guitarist for a father, Makhathini was of sounds to come”. surrounded by music as a child, exposed to a wide range of aural cultures including Makhathini has performed around the traditional Zulu, church and Indian music. world, touring Europe with soul songtress Although he is from a family of singers, he Simphiwe Dana and sharing stages with found voice limiting and chose to study Herbie Hancock and Miriam Makeba at the jazz piano once he left school. Avo Session Jazz Festival in Basel in 2006. He joined Ngqawana’s Zimology Quartet In 2001, he went to study music at the in 2008 and toured with them throughout Durban Institute of Technology. As a young Europe and the US. artist, he met legendary saxophonist and flautist Zim Ngqawana and self-taught jazz He has performed at the Cape Town master Bheki Mseleku, whose approach International Jazz Festival, Jazz in the continues influence him. “Bheki told me Cradle at Nirox, the Lagos Jazz Series about how it was important to use music Nigeria – and, of course, at the National to speak to our souls and change the Arts Festival, which he first attended in environment, change the people we are 2011. “Collaborating with people makes it and heal others,” Makhathini said in an possible for us to go out there and do what interview earlier this year. “That became my we can,” he says. connection to jazz.” This year, Makhathini will perform as part He has played with almost all of South of In Listening to the Ground with Faku, Africa’s major jazz greats: Herbie Tsoaeli, Ayanda Sikade and Nomagugu Makhathini, “I am very grateful to the Standard Bank Young Feya Faku, Carlo Mombelli, Marcus Wyatt, as well as Swedish saxophonist Karl-Martin Artist Awards for the opportunity they give to McCoy Mrubata and Concord Nkabinde. Almqvist and Martin Sjöstedt to pay artists to share their story. For an artist, it doesn’t Last year, he released his first two albums homage to the musical legends who have get better than being given a platform to as the lead: Mother Tongue “speaks of built the legacy of South African jazz. express oneself – and for this I am grateful.”

MUSA NGQUNGWANA 2015 STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST FOR MUSIC

ass baritone Musa Ngqungwana was language, in front of its people, and excel Bbrought up by his grandmother and was phenomenal,” he said at the time. single mother in the township of Zwide just outside Port Elizabeth. Interested in He graduated with a Performer’s Diploma everything from rugby to reading, he joined in Opera and a Bachelor of Music Honours the choir in primary school, which fuelled his Degree in Performance (Magna Cum passion for performance. His introduction Laude) from UCT, and his hard work paid to opera was as a teenager when he saw a off when he received a scholarship to study 1978 video performance of Die Zauberflöte, at the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in in which Jamaican-born British operatic Philadelphia. In May 2014, he graduated bass-baritone Sir Willard White played the from AVA with an Artist Diploma. role of Die Sprecher. “I saw a black man doing a major role – and I wanted to do that In 2013, Ngqungwana was chosen from as well.” more than 1 500 aspiring singers from across the US as a winner of the Metropolitan He initially enrolled for a Building Science Opera National Council Auditions in New degree at Metropolitan York. Most recently, he made his debut with University, but his passion for singing won the Washington National Opera as Colline out when he auditioned for – and was in La Bohème, and has appeared as Zuniga awarded – a scholarship to the South African in with the Norwegian National College of Music at the University of Cape Opera. Town in 2004. The 31-year-old says his favourite opera He won his first award in 2007 – the to perform is in the role of “Singing was my salvation and something Schock Foundation Prize for Singing, an Leporello. that could keep me intact without having to annual vocal competition held by UCT. In think of the troubles that surrounded us.” 2009, Ngqungwana and two of his fellow Ngqungwana, who is based abroad, will give students won the hotly contested two performances – one solo and one with Competition in . “For us isiZulu and the KwaZulu-Natal Orchestra during the Gala isiXhosa speakers, to sing in a foreign Concert – at this year’s National Arts Festival. 13

CHRISTIAAN OLWAGEN 2015 STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST FOR THEATRE

rom an early age, director, actor director and best short film at Fand writer Christiaan Olwagen was the KykNet Silwerskermfees in encouraged by his mother to be creative – 2013. and had written and directed his first play by the time he was 14. Raised in , he Three years ago, Olwagen studied drama at teamed up with other under the mentorship of Marthinus Basson, theatremakers to form the also a Young Artist Award winner (1989). Polony Theatre Collective, While still a student, Olwagen won the which has staged a number of Fleur Du Cap Award for his portrayal of the successful productions. Emcee in Basson’s production of Cabaret the Musical. Olwagen’s body of work displays a contemporary Olwagen debuted at the National Arts fascination with theatre’s “Restaging a classic becomes a process of finding links Festival in 2010 with Woza Andries?, an classics. Die Seemeeu, his between the context of the playwright and the society adaption of the classic South African play reworking of Chekhov’s classic, that we find ourselves in today. With ‘A Doll’s House’ I Woza Albert!. The work won him numerous premiered at Aardklop in 2014 want to show a contemporary festival audience a South accolades, including the Rosalie van der with Marius Weyers and Sandra African reflection in a Scandinavian mirror.” Gught award for best director. Dogma, Prinsloo, winning Olwagen Olwagen’s account of his parents’ struggle a Beeld-Aartvark award for with religion, won best production and best groundbreaking work.He will present a something like A Doll’s House had been debut play at the KKNK last year. reworking of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House written today?’ Ibsen’s Nora asks questions at this year’s National Arts Festival. about gender equality - as a society we The versatile 27-year-old has worked in may think that we’ve come a long way but, cabaret, comedy, drama, puppet theatre, “I find the process of doing a classic without realising it, we’ve often slipped musicals, and physical theatre. Even his challenging and rewarding,” he says. “A backwards. Because of this, a classic like forays into film have garnered awards. classic runs the risk of being boring or A Doll’s House will always be relevant. I He directed and wrote the screenplay for meaningless to a contemporary audience. just want to help it along by dusting off the Toevlug, winner of the best screenplay, best But I try to answer the question, ‘What if cobwebs and removing the corsets.”

“I strive to create things with a ATHI-PATRA RUGA lot of colour because I believe colour is disarming … Colour 2015 STANDARD BANK YOUNG when put to race is totally ARTIST FOR PERFORMANCE ART redundant.”

rowing up in Mthatha in the former Transkei Since 2010, Ruga has been Gbut being schooled in East , artist Athi- blazing a trail with The Future Patra Ruga says he was acutely aware of having to White Woman of Azania adapt to different contexts. He relished the times his (FWWOA), an ongoing series father took him into Radio Transkei’s studios to help of performances that engage create sound effects for radio dramas because the new definitions of nationhood experience showed him that it was possible to use in relation to the body. At tools to create an alternative reality – and alternative the National Arts Festival personae, allowing him to fit in as well as “validate his in 2012, he collaborated differences”. with photographer Mikhael Subotzky on a performance in In 1999, Ruga attended art classes at the Belgravia Art Rini township. “I was able to College in East London, where he first used his body confront my history of walking as a tool to communicate in art. Once he’d finished the township as someone who high school, he moved to and was doesn’t fit in. Of course, I walked awarded a scholarship to study fashion at the now- it as the Future White Women of defunct Gordon Flack Davidson Academy of Design. Azania because my characters are more robust than I am.” Ruga explores and pushes boundaries between fashion, performance and contemporary art by creating works that Recent performances by the 30-year-old artist include The Founding reveal the body in relation to social structures, ideology and politics. Myth, staged for the opening of the South African Pavilion at the He uses performance, textiles and tapestries, video and printmaking 55th Venice Biennale; The Elder of Azania, commissioned by the to explore utopian ideals, rhetoric and racial ideologies. He Museum of Modern Art San Francisco and the Yerba Buena Center sometimes uses the ceremonial form of the procession to extend the for the Arts; and Next Future, hosted at the Gulbenkian Foundation meaning of his works in public space, deepening communication in Lisbon, . with the audience. Ruga will present The Elder of Azania at this year’s Festival. 14

“This award epitomises the excellent work that young artists are doing and I take it as recognition … a key to open a door of “My position possibilities.” as an artist draws on the understanding that, as an artist, I am not divorced from society. I am impacted by everything that goes on around me – and that I have impact also.” ancer, choreographer, teacher and mentor DLuyanda Sidiya first fell in love with dance as a young school boy when a short piece orn in 1984 Kemang Wa Lehulere was performed as part of a community theatre Braised by a single mother in apartheid group production captured his imagination South Africa, growing up in , a and heart. After working with various township township outside of Cape Town, surrounded dance, music and drama groups in Sebokeng, by a family of actors, writers, filmmakers and the Vaal Triangle township where he grew creatives. up, Sidiya attended classes facilitated by the late Wendy David at the Dance Factory in As an aspirant performer, Wa Lehulere first Newtown, Johannesburg. His formal training enrolled in a performing arts course at CAP began at Moving into Dance Mophatong (Community Arts Project) before switching (MIDM), where his persistence, perseverance to a visual arts course as a more challenging and dedication were rewarded with his idea. Here, he learnt about drawing, painting appointment as Afro-fusion dance teacher and and sculpture. “Initially I was drawn to works LUYANDA SIDIYA LUYANDA rehearsal director in 1999. that dealt with identity politics, because I could relate,” he recalls. “I looked a lot at Berni “My world was now dance and choreography Searle, Tracey Rose and Thando Mama. That and that fulfilled me deeply as this was a kind of work became my interest.” discovery and a realisation that this is no hobby to certain individuals but a life, career In 2006, Wa Lehulere helped establish and work,” he has said of those years. Gugulective, an artist-led collective based in Cape Town, and is a founding member

Sidiya has travelled extensively with his work, of the Centre for Historical Re-enactments LEHULERE WA KEMANG including to , Austria, and in Johannesburg. He graduated with a BA the US. In 2004, he attended the Kuopio Fine Arts degree from the University of the

2015 STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST FOR DANCE FOR ARTIST YOUNG BANK STANDARD 2015 International Festival in Finland, where he Witwatersrand in 2011. danced an unforgettable Gula, a solo work choreographed by Vincent Mantsoe. A Wa Lehulere creates ambiguous events and decade later, Makwande, Sidiya’s own solo environments to initiate fresh understandings choreography, was performed at the Kuopio festival. of both the past and the present. Via a range of media – drawing, sculpture, ART VISUAL FOR ARTIST YOUNG BANK STANDARD 2015 Sidiya has taught at Bennington College in Vermont, photography, text, installation, performance and was a member of the UK’s Ace Dance and Music and video – he excavates the spaces between Company for three years – first as a dancer, then as personal narrative and collective history, its rehearsal director. In 2007, he won Most Outstanding disintegration and preservation. Dancer in a Contemporary Style at the Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg and has since worked on a number He has participated in more than 50 group shows, most of pieces for the festival – including his specially notably at the 8th Biennale last year. He is the winner commissioned piece, 7 pillars, last year. of major international awards – including the first Tiberius Art Award Dresden, launched in 2013 as a tribute to outstanding In 2012, he choreographed the lyrical Umnikelo, part of contemporary artists outside of Europe; and the 15th Bâloise the double bill Mayhem, which won the Silver Standard prize at Art Basel 2013. Wa Lehulere has participated in six Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival that international residencies, including an Ampersand Foundation year. residency in New York in 2012.

Sidiya spends his time teaching, and planning for In To Whom It May Concern, his most recent exhibition in Cape festivals and performances. His works are strongly Town, he used sculpture, video, Polaroid and drawings to influenced by sociopolitical issues, and he is constantly respond to a work by Mieko Shiomi, a Japanese artist with links motivated by sharing his experiences with dance to the Fluxus movement. students. Wa Lehulere’s solo exhibition at this year’s National Arts Sidiya is currently the artistic director at Vuyani Dance Festival, History Will Break Your Heart, is curated by Lerato Theatre. He will present Siva at the Festival this year. Bereng. It will go on a countrywide tour once the Festival ends. 15 2015 FEATURED ARTIST OF THE YEAR SINCE LAUNCHING THE FEATURED ARTIST PROGRAMME IN 2012, THE SPOTLIGHT HAS SHONE ON ARTISTS WHOSE PROLIFIC WORK HAS FEARLESSLY CONTRIBUTED IN CHALLENGING WAYS TO OUR NATIONAL DISCOURSES ABOUT RACE, CLASS, ETHNICITY, GENDER AND ENVIRONMENT.THIS YEAR THE FESTIVAL BREAKS THE MOULD BY DECLARING A GENRE THE 2015 ARTIST OF THE YEAR.

atire has the ability to contest the right to freedom of expression Sboundaries. It unravels itself under Article 19 of the Universal through interactive forms of Declaration of Human Rights. expression. It is fearless about how it challenges perceptions On the Think Fest! Programme, and traditional positions. Satire South African award winning is a dynamic mode of creative cartoonist Jeremey Nell, (Vodacom expression. It is inter-culturally journalist of the year 2011) and charged. It is most productive when Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards it concentrates on one fundamental (2nd prize at Press Cartoon Europe issue: social justice! in 2014) will talk about the power of cartoons and satire; and Dario Milo, In the wake of the attack on the who has represented Zapiro and the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, Goodman Gallery in the Spier case, various debates about satire have talks on Satire and Parody: The Legal reared their heads. Can satire change Protections and Restrictions. He will an opinion or persuade a mind? Are be joined other prominent thinkers, cartoons so dangerous as to pose an satirists and cartoonists in a rigorous ideological threat? debate on the ethics and principles of freedom of speech and satire. Unlike comedy soirees, satire has the power to punch out philosophical On the Remix Laboratory programme lines that can send out a knockout and also open to all Festival-goers, blow. Unlike pub jokes which a Cartoon Competition supported can have a solidifying effect that by the city of The Hague in the ultimately turns stereotypes into Netherlands and the international truths, satire can unravel layers of Cartoon Movement will have its dishonesty to allow the audience to South African launch on the Think! establish their own truths. Fest programme with support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the At the 2015 National Arts Festival, Netherlands. Young people will be satire takes a pivotal position ranging asked to create cartoon sketches from Pieter-Dirk Uys, the diva of about their ideas and local solutions Pieter-Dirk Uys Chester Missing (and friends) South African political satire in the that can contribute to international performance arts genre to Chester peace and justice. The ten best Missing, the only satirical puppet on cartoons will be selected by an the planet to be taken to court and to international jury and will be on have won the case against him. display at the Peace Palace in The Hague, from September 21, 2015. Albert Pretorius, Rob van Vuuren and James Cairns directed by Tara Louise The National Arts Festival recognises Nottcutt premiere their new work, that satirists are a pillar of a critical Three Blind Mice, which has its own and a free society. Yet today, biting elements of satire inspired by many are becoming a threatened courtroom dramas that have shocked species! Many stand to lose their the nation. jobs as bureaucrats, funders James Cairns, Albert Pretorius and fundamentalists tighten the and Rob van In the Festival’s visual arts pressure valves. Many create their Vuuren programme, Freedom of Expression work without ever bowing down to in Broad Strokes, is a showcase of the immense pressures they face. winning cartoons since 2001 from Celebrating the right for free and fair an international cartoon competition expression as enshrined in the South which encourages visitors to think African constitution, the National Arts about the complexity of freedom Festival is proud to take the bold step of expression and what it means to of personifying the genre of SATIRE them. At the same time, the exhibition and to announce the art of SATIRE aims to remind governments of as the 2015 Featured Artist of the their duty to respect and uphold Year. Jeremey Nell Tjeerd Royaards

17 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH VUYANI DANCE THEATRE, PRESENTS THE STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST LUYANDA SIDIYA’S SIVA(SEVEN)

CHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION Luyanda Sidiya MUSICIANS: MUSICAL DIRECTION Xolisile Bongwana PHOSHO LEBESE, MPUMI NHLAPO, AYANDA NHLANGOTHI, REHEARSAL DIRECTOR Shanell Winlock TEBOHO MOKOENA DRAMATURGE Gerard Bester LIGHTING DESIGNER Oliver Hauser DANCERS: COSTUME DESIGNER Veronica Sham KEAOLEBOGA SEODIGENG, LULU MLANGENI, OTTO PRODUCER Vuyani Dance Theatre (VDT) NHLAPO, PHUMLANI MNDEBELE, PHUMLANI NYANGA, NOMASONTO RADEBE, XOLISILE BONGWANA, JULIA BURNHAM, ROSELINE KEPPLER, EDWIN RAMOBA he Vuyani Dance Theatre noted for its cutting edge Ttheatrical works was founded by Gregory Maqoma in 1999 as a playground for artistic development, coupled with a strong outreach programme. The company has presented performances in major cities across the globe including Paris, Lagos, , , Windhoek, Auckland, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, ALEC MULLINS Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein, Mexico City, MONDAY 6 JULY 20:30 Los Angeles, Washington DC, New York, Barcelona, Kalamata TUESDAY 7 JULY 12:00 & 20:00 and . WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 14:00 & 20:00 DURATION 1hr CHOREOGRAPHER’S STATEMENT I am here AGE RECOMMENDATION All You are here TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 Why are we alone? I am flesh You are flesh Why do we hunger? I am whole You are whole What is this void? I am human You are human.

As human beings tangled in our own disorder, disruption, and disassociation we constantly yearn for that which guides us to completeness, to oneness. We are in constant search within ourselves, in others, and all around us, for connectedness and peace. 18

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CAPE TOWN CITY BALLET, PRESENTS A DOUBLE-BILL SPRING AND FALL CHOREOGRAPHY BY JOHN NEUMEIER

everal movements of Spring and Fall were Screated for the Nijinsky Gala XVII and performed GUEST PRODUCER Victor Hughes for the first time on April 28, 1991 at the Hamburg PRODUCTION MANAGER Charles Petersen State Opera, . LIGHTING Faheem Bardien STAGE MANAGER Morag Tyson The complete version was given its first performance on October 10, 1994 at the Grand Théâtre de MUSIC BY Antonín Dvořák Genève, Switzerland, with the Ballet Grand Théâtre (SERENADE FOR STRINGS IN E MAJOR, OPUS 22) de Genève. It premièred in New York on November 4, DÉCOR AND COSTUMES BY John Neumeier 1998 with the American Ballet Theatre, and was first BALLET MISTRESS Tracy Li seen in South Africa in September, 2014. LIGHTING After John Neumeier

CAST CAPE TOWN BALLET BOARD LAURA BOSENBERG & THOMAS THORNE HONORARY PATRON Sheila Camerer AND Prof N. Basson, Ms S Paulsen, Mr H Sudwarts, ARTISTS OF THE CAPE TOWN CITY BALLET Prof E Triegaardt (Hon Executive Director), Mr P Tucker, Ms D Yach

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT THURSDAY 2 JULY 19:00 FRIDAY 3 JULY 11:00 & 18:00 DURATION 1hr 40min (incl. 20min interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Evening performances R105 / R95 / R85 Matinee performance R95 / R85 / R75 19

LE SACRE

he original Ballets Russes production of TLe Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), with music by Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, was presented in Paris in 1913. In more than 100 years that have passed since the première, the music has lost none of its shocking potency or the fascination it exerts on choreographers.

John Neumeier, whose version is titled Le Sacre, has eschewed the original libretto of a pagan Russian rite of spring. Instead, he offers a metaphoric vision of mankind’s wilful predisposition for aggression and self- destruction. In the light of the continuing upheaval and conflict in the world today, this is still a theme of frightening actuality.

The première of Neumeier’s staging of the ballet took place in Frankfurt on 25 November, 1972 and the South African première was on 26 September, 2014.

CAST SARAH-LEE CHAPMAN LAURA BOSENBERG, MILWHYNNE WILLIAMS ROSAMUND FORD, CLAIRE SPECTOR THOMAS THORNE, BRADLEY VAN HEERDEN AND ARTISTS OF THE CAPE TOWN CITY BALLET

ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER Victor Hughes MUSIC BY Igor Stravinsky DÉCOR AND COSTUMES BY John Neumeier BALLET MASTER Robin van Wyk LIGHTING After John Neumeier

John Neumeier was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, interpretations of such well-known ballets as The where he received his first dance training. He Nutcracker and Romeo and Juliet. In 1973, he continued his dance studies in Chicago, as well as joined the Hamburg Ballet as Director and Chief at Marquette University in Milwaukee, where he Choreographer and, under his direction, the created his first choreographic works. Hamburg Ballet became one of the leading ballet companies on the German dance scene and soon After further ballet study in Copenhagen and at received international recognition. The Royal Ballet School of London, John Cranko invited him, in1963, to join Stuttgart Ballet, As a choreographer, Neumeier has continually where he progressed to soloist and continued focused on the preservation of ballet tradition, while his choreographic development. In 1969 he giving his works a modern and dramatic framework. was appointed as Director of Ballet Frankfurt, His latest creation for the Hamburg Ballet, Tatjana, where he soon caused a sensation due to his new premièred in 2014.

Victor Hughes, guest producer, was born followed with London’s Festival Ballet retired, he continues to work for John in Johannesburg and danced first with the (later the English National Ballet) and the Neumeier, mounting his works throughout University of Cape Town Ballet Company Zürich Opera, Switzerland. the world. He is also active in adult and the Capab Ballet Company. He left education, giving seminars on ballet, and South Africa in 1966 to experience the In 1973 he joined the Hamburg Ballet as as a lecturer on Ballet History at The John European cultural scene. Engagements Soloist and Ballet Master. Though officially Neumeier Ballet School in Hamburg. 20

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH DANCE FORUM PRESENTS THE LAST ATTITUDE

CHOREOGRAPHED & PERFORMED BY MAMELA NYAMZA AND NELISIWE XABA

ith The Last Attitude two women PRODUCER Dance Forum Wchoreographer/dancers, Mamela Nyamza and COSTUME DESIGN Arlo Gibson of Strangelove Nelisiwe Xaba are excited, after years of not dancing LIGHTING & TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Oliver Hauser together, to meet up again on stage, to do a ballet.

“The origins of classical ballet can be traced back to RHODES BOX THEATRE the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries; since then many shifts have occurred with THURSDAY 2 JULY 14:00 various techniques being the focus at certain periods,” FRIDAY 3 JULY 14:00 & 18:00 says Nyamza “and tackling this classical genre of SATURDAY 4 JULY 14:00 & 18:00 dance, born out of elitism, is not an easy feat!” DURATION 1hr (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION PG Nyamza and Xaba are both fascinated by the sense TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 of abundance and exaggeration of the art form – the dancers, the costumes, the orchestra and the scenography.

The piece will interrogate the politics of this ancient art form: including the male posture and the relationship between the male principal dancer and the ballerina. Traditionally the male dancer served as a porter, lifting the ballerina to show how light she is and also showing his strength. At one point in history males where not allowed on stage as it was seen as feminine for men to dance - which highlights the typical stereotypes men are forced to deal with: homosexual, feminine, dainty, weak, fragile, vain, soft, narcissistic, etc.

To date this art form is still used in politics as diplomacy between countries in cultural and economic exchanges, continuing to keep its place PHOTO: JOHN HOGG in culture. The Last Attitude sets out to demystify the traditions that are so closely linked with this art form: white, female and elitist. 21

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH TUMBUKA CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY PRESENTS portrait of

ALEC MULLINS FRIDAY 3 JULY 12:00 & 16:00 myself as my SATURDAY 4 JULY 12:00 & 20:00 DURATION 50min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All father TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65

orn in Mutare, and based African body, as well as interrogates TUMBUKA CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: Bin , Nora Chipaumire the ‘Zimbabwean self’ as manifested has been challenging and embracing through time, space and force (dance). Cathrine Douglas (guest), Caroline Yule (guest), stereotypes of Africa and the black Ndineyi Alfazima, Chido Mukundwa, Maylene performing body, art, and aesthetic “portrait ... “ marks the first time Chenjerayi, Snoden Filimon, McIntosh Jerahuni, for over a decade. She has studied Chipaumire has collaborated with Alexio Matambo, Stanley Wasili, and Carlton dance in many parts of the world Tumbuka Dance Company , as well Zhanelo. including Africa (Senegal, Burkina Faso, as the first time her work has been Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa), researched and developed in her Cuba, Jamaica and the U.S. A graduate native country . In addition to live of the University of Zimbabwe’s School music, the production also features CHOREOGRAPHY /CONCEPT Nora Chipaumire of Law, Chipaumire holds an M.A. in recorded music from Bhundu Boys, COSTUME & SET DESIGN Nora Chipaumire Dance and M.F.A. in Choreography and Doudou Ndiaye Rose, and Anderson SOUND DESIGN Philip White (Brooklyn, NY. for Performance from Mills College (CA). and Roe. company Nora Chipaumire) ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Anna Morris In portrait of myself as my father (2014), Tumbuka is a project of The Dance REHEARSAL DIRECTOR Cathrine Douglas Chipaumire authors and celebrates Trust of Zimbabwe. This collaboration COMPANY MANAGER Gladys Hwami masculinity (male presence and was made possible with support from TECHNICAL DIRECTORS Tariro Mushonga and representation), performance, the black the New York Live Arts Suitcase Fund. Tracey Garrard 22

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH MOVING INTO DANCE MOPHATONG(MIDM) PRESENTS A DOUBLE-BILL

an Longing, choreographed by Sunnyboy Madla Motau, Mis an exploration into the dark and sinister world of human trafficking.

Through the use of dance and poetry this choreography hopes to bring awareness to young people of the dangers that lurk out there and the consequences of being a victim of human trafficking. Many young people are forced into prostitution against their will, some are kept as modern day slaves, and others are introduced to the underworld of drug dealing and use. The city, while luring in its attraction of greener pastures, leaves many stranded and at risk of the evils that prowl the streets in the quiet stillness of night.

“[MIDM’s] choreographic language is proof of an undeniable originality” Ayoko Mensah, Africultures

DANCERS MACALENI SHILI, TEBOHO GILBERT LETELE, OSCAR NHLANHLA BUTHELEZI, ASANDA RUDA, MAN THENJIWE SOXOKOSHE, MOJELA THERESA CHOREOGRAPHER & COSTUMES Sunnyboy Mandla Motau CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT Oageng Marcus Mabusela MUSIC COMPOSER Teboho Gilbert Letele LIGHTING DESIGN Wilhelm Disbergen LONGING PROPS & SETS Prince Twala, Sunnyboy Mandla Motau

IDM Performance Company was The work it has performed has been an Sweden, Chile, Switzerland, Mfounded in 1978 by Sylvia Glasser as original blending of Western contemporary as well as throughout Southern Africa. a non-racial dance company and training dance forms and music with African ritual, organization, during the height of apartheid. music and movement. Since 1990 the With Sylvia Glasser having retired but still For 37 years, this company has been Company has performed to enthusiastic retained as a Trustee of MIDM, the Company presenting a unique African contemporary audiences in Africa, , Canada, the is now managed by Nadia Virasamy (CEO dance experience, and has been praised United States of America, , Israel, / Director of Education) and Mark Hawkins nationally and internationally for its artistry, Jordan, , Denmark, France, Finland, (Artistic Director). vitality and choreographic innovation. Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, 23

gizwise is a thought-provoking dance work Ncreated by two dynamic female choreographers, one from Johannesburg and the other from Toronto, danced and sung by four powerful, male South African performers. NGIZWISE Using a unique, combined dance language, the choreographers have crafted a beautiful work at once universal and personal. Using spoken words, as well as deft manipulations of the workaday set pieces, the choreographers and dancers reveal intimate stories of South Africa under apartheid, woven from the voices of the ‘born free generation’. It is a complex work that holds the attention through images of community, power, individuality and masculinity in our globalised modern society.

This work was originally made possible in part by the Canadian Council, the 2014 Jomba Contemporary Dance Festival, Durban, and the 2015 Dance Umbrella, Johannesburg.

CHOREOGRAPHY AND CONCEPTION Sonia Thandazile Radebe (MIDM) and Jennifer Dallas (KEMI Contemporary Dance Projects, Canada)

IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PERFORMERS: Macaleni Shili Sunnyboy Mandla Motau Teboho Gilbert Letele Oscar Nhlanhla Buthelezi

COSTUME DESIGN Veronica Sham LIGHTING DESIGN Wilhelm Disbergen MUSIC Teboho Gilbert Letele VOICE COACH Nhlanhla Mahlangu

“MIDM has created a distinctive genre of Contemporary African Dance” Adrienne Sichel, The Star Tonight

ALEC MULLINS FRIDAY 10 JULY 20:00 SATURDAY 11 JULY 14:00 & 20:00 SUNDAY 12 JULY 14:00 & 20:00 DURATION 1hr 45min (incl. 15min interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65

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THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH JAN MARTENS AND THE FLEMISH-DUTCH HOUSE DEBUREN PRESENTS THE SOUTH AFRICAN PREMIERE OF THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER A JUMPED, MINIMAL AND POLITICAL WORK FOR EIGHT PERFORMERS

“Jan Martens conjures a mesmerising choreography of nothing but jumping, strength and geometry.” De Volkskrant

an Martens found the inspiration line between art and entertainment CHOREOGRAPHY & CONCEPT Jan Martens Jfor The Dog Days Are Over from a lie? Who are we, as an audience, LIGHTING DESIGN Jan Fedinger 1958 quote by American photographer watching dancers suffer as if we are DRAMATURGY Renée Copraij Philippe Halsman: “When you ask a watching bullfights in an arena? Is TECHNICALS Michel Spang person to jump, his attention is mostly contemporary dance striptease for the PRODUCTION JAN & ICKamsterdam directed toward the act of jumping and upper class? IMAGES Piet Goethals the mask falls so that the real person appears.” The Dog Days Are Over makes the watcher shift between being in the DANCERS The production tries to reveal experience and reflection on that CHERISH MENZO NAOMI GIBSON the person behind the dancer same experience, simultaneously PIET DEFRANCQ NELLE HENS by constructing a very complex, entrancing and creating a distance for JULIEN JOSSE STEVEN MICHEL mathematical, dynamic and tiring the spectator, resulting in audiences LAURA VANBORM KIMMY LIGTVOET choreography that is performed almost questioning their reasons for being in completely in unison. The complexity the theatre. of the choreography is so intense that the dancers will eventually go wrong. Belgian choreographer Jan Martens is GRAEME COLLEGE It is there where the mask falls. The known for exploring the possibility of a THURSDAY 9 JULY 20:30 dancer is defined as an idle and perfect balance and symbiosis between FRIDAY 10 JULY 17:00 purely executing species, striving for story-telling and conceptualism. He is DURATION 1hr 10min (no interval) perfection. not trying to create a new movement AGE RECOMMENDATION PG language, but instead he moulds and TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 But The Dog Days Are Over also recycles existing idioms and places has a more reflective aim. It wants them in a different setting, so a new to provoke thoughts about the role idea emerges. In his work the beauty of dance and art, it questions the of the incomplete human being stands audience’s perception about dancers, up front, rather than excelling in The South African premiere of The Dogs Days choreographers, audience and choreographic complexity or physical Are Over is made possible with the support of cultural policy: Where does the thin virtuosity. Dansbrabant, Frascati Producties, Tanzhaus nrw, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, La Briqueterie CDC Val-du-marne and TAKT Dommelhof, the Flemish Authorities and the Dutch Arts Fund. 26

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL ARENA PROGRAMME PRESENTS KMAD DANCE COMPANY’S

CHOREOGRAPHY: KELSEY MIDDLETON WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY LYFTAAL KMAD DANCE COMPANY n this dance production, movement, poems and music DANCERS: Afrikaans poetry is set together. I NELMARIE BORNMAN to music and dramatized LAURA- JEAN DE VRIES through the body On paper, poetry has a sound, KHAYA NDLOVU language (lyftaal) of the but once those words are THAMI THSHABALALA dancer. translated into movements EVAN VAN SOEST those very same sounds and PHUME SIKHAKHANE From Boerneef, Breyten figures of speech, explode JOEL TOMMY Breytenbach, Blom into a world that is unique, BERTUS BARKHUIZEN and du Plessis to de surprising, original and above Villiers, Krog and all, accessible Jonker, beautiful poetry sung by artists The cast, consisting of such as Laurika Afrikaans, Zulu and English Rauch, Theuns speaking dancers, are GRAEME COLLEGE Jordaan, Helena united in a resolve to move TUESDAY 7 JULY 12:00 & 19:30 Hettema and their audience, across all WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 19:30 Lieze Stassen. boundaries, in the Afrikaanse THURSDAY 9 JULY 11:30 Klasi Coetzee Taal. These talented dancers DURATION 1hr (no interval) has written a were part of the 2013 and 2014 light-hearted Standard Bank Ovation Award AGE RECOMMENDATION All binding script winning productions, 7 DEADLY TICKETS: Full price R70 that brings the SINS and NO AIR. Concessions R60

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL ARENA PROGRAMME PRESENTS UNDERGROUND DANCE THEATRE’S LOVEZERO Underground Dance Theatre is “a company Cipher, choreographed by Kristina fast making name for itself as an intelligent Johnstone and Cilna Katzke, is a numbers collective with a knack for looking at the game. Numbers seem rational, logical familiar through a pair of fresh eyes and impersonal, yet we seem to be deeply Steyn du Toit, www.slipnet.co.za) attuned to how numbers feel. Using the idea that numbers have this emotional oveZero, consisting of two landscape, the choreography Lparts, Cipher and Mode ,is of Cipher is governed by a set of Underground Dance Theatre’s latest predetermined rules which allow contemporary dance production which the dance to become its own CHOREOGRAPHY: builds on the collective’s reputation for author. The dancers must THALIA LARIC AND producing work that is thought-provoking navigate the tension between STEVEN VAN WYK and entertaining. order and disorder, harmony KRISTINA JOHNSTONE and anarchy, the logical AND CILNA KATZKE In Mode, Thalia Laric and Steven van Wyk and the illogical. revisit traditional dance styles and find DANCERS humour and aesthetic inspiration in the LoveZero is… falling in love CIARA BARRON formal elements of social dances. From the with a rubiks cube… hopscotch on JULIA DE ROSENWORTH processional rigidity of court dances, to a Mondrian KOPANO MAROGA the frivolity of the salsa, Mode is a dance HENK OPPERMAN about dancing. NKOSINATHI MTSHALI SANGWENI NICOLA VAN STRAATEN GREAME COLLEGE MONDAY 6 JULY 12:00 & 19:00 TUESDAY 7 JULY 15:30 & 21:30 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 12:00 & 17:30 DURATION 45min AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS: Full price R70 Concessions R60 27 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE 2015 STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST FOR MUSIC MUSA NGQUNGWANA ass-baritone Musa Ngqungwana grew up in the township Bof Zwide in Port Elizabeth. He graduated with Honours in Performance (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Cape Town, and recently graduated from the prestigious opera IN CONCERT institution, the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. In 2014 Musa was a nominee for the Kennedy Center’s Marian Anderson Award. He was also the 2014 winner of the Cesare Santeremo/ ACCOMPANIED BY LAURENT PHILIPPE Dr.Campbell Award from Opera Index in NYC. He was the 2013 Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council A native of France, Laurent Philippe studied at the CNSM de Paris, Auditions; the 2013 recipient of the Lissner Charitable Award from from which he graduated with two Premier Prix. Soon after making the Licia Abanese/Puccini International Vocal Competition; and the Canada his new home, he was appointed to the faculty of the 2013 recipient of the Apollo Music Trust. Further awards include department of music of the University of Ottawa. He then received the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, 2011; the WBHO/Jan Kaminski his doctorate from the University of Washington, where he was Award, 2010; the prize of “Die Zeit” at the 29th International Hans invited to stay on as guest lecturer. Laurent’s keen interest in opera Gabor Belvedere Competition in , Austria; winner for the role has led him to be associated with a wide variety of opera artists. He of Ping at the International Turandot Competition, organised by the has enjoyed a 19 year tenure as a faculty member of the celebrated International Institute for Opera and Poetry in 2009; and the Schock Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and has also worked as a Prize for Singing at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town in 2007. guest coach for the Canadian Opera Company, Michigan Opera Theatre, Florentine Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Company of Musa’s 2014-2015 season began with his début in the role of Philadelphia and The in London, to name but a Colline in the Washington National Opera’s La bohème. Immediately few. Laurent is currently a guest vocal coach of the English National following, he made another début with the Norwegian National Opera (ENO) Harewood Artists in London, and the International Opera in Oslo, in the role of Zuniga (while covering Escamillo) Opera Studio (IOS) Opernhaus Zürich, Switzerland. in Carmen. He then performed Freihold in Guntram with the Washington Concert Opera, and Dr Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’Amore with the Florentine Opera of Milwaukee. He loves exploring the Musa Nwqungwana talks about his memoir, Odyssey of an African various cities he performs in and recently wrote his first memoir Opera Singer, in a Think!Fest event on Monday 6 July at 10:00 at the Odyssey of an African Opera Singer: From Zwide Township to the Eden Grove Complex - refer to the Think!Fest Programme, page 114. World Stage.

PROGRAMME

JOHANNES BRAHMS Vier ernste Gesänge Op.121 1833-1897 (Four Serious Songs)

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Songs of Travel 1872-1958

MAURICE RAVEL Don Quichotte à Dulcinée 1875-1937

RHODES CHAPEL SATURDAY 4 JULY 15:00 MONDAY 6 JULY 19:00 DURATION 1hr (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION 12 + TICKETS: Full price R70 Concessions R65 28

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE KWAZULU-NATAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

SYMPHONY CONCERT CONDUCTED BY BERNHARD GUELLER WITH SOLOIST JOANNA FRANKEL (VIOLIN)

PROGRAMME

HENDRIK HOFMEYR Preludio e Umsindo ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8, in G major, Op. 88 (1957 –) (1841-1904) Allegro con brio (G major) Adagio (Eb major, C major) Hendrik Hofmeyr is a South African composer. Born in Cape Town Allegretto grazioso – Molto vivace (G minor) he furthered his studies in Italy during 10 years of self-imposed exile Allegro ma non troppo (G major) as a conscientious objector. His oeuvre includes six operas, two ballets, 11 concertos and other orchestral works, two string quartets Dvořák composed and orchestrated the work in November 1889 at and other chamber and instrumental works, plus a great number of his summer resort in Bohemia on the occasion of his admission to choral and solo vocal works. He is currently Professor and Head of the Prague Academy. He dedicated it “To the Bohemian Academy of Composition and Theory at the South African College of Music at the Emperor Franz Joseph for the Encouragement of Arts and Litera- University of Cape Town, where he obtained a DMus in 1999. ture, in thanks for my election”). Dvořák conducted the première in Prague on 2 February 1890. PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D major,Op. 35 (1840-1904) Allegro moderato (D major) Dvořák kept the typical format of a symphony in four movements, Canzonetta: Andante (G minor) but structured them in an unusual way. All movements show a Finale: Allegro vivacissimo (D major) remarkable variety of themes, many of them based on Bohemian There is no break or pause between the second and third movements. material. The first movement is a powerful and glowing exposition characterised by liberal use of timpani. It opens with a lyrical G minor Written byTchaikovsky in 1878 it is one of the best known violin theme in the cellos, horns, clarinets and bassoon with trombones, concertos, and is considered one of the most technically difficult violas and double basses pizzicato. This gives way to a “bird call” works for the violin. The piece was written in Clarens, a Swiss resort flute melody, reaching the symphony’s key G major. Despite being on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Tchaikovsky had gone to marked Adagio, the second movement moves along at quite a recover from the depression brought on by his disastrous marriage reasonable speed. It begins with a typically beautiful clarinet duet to Antonina Miliukova. He soon made swift, steady progress on and ends quietly, but contentedly. Most of the third movement is a the concerto, as by this point in his rest cure he had regained his melancholy waltz in 3/8 time. Near the end, the meter changes to inspiration, and the work was completed within a month. Along 2/4, and the music ends in a manner not unlike that of the second with the violin concertos of Bruch and Mendelssohn, this work by movement. The finale, formally a “complex theme-and-variations”, Tchaikovsky is one of the most important works for the violin in the is the most turbulent movement. It begins with a fanfare of trumpets history of Romantic music. and ends on a chromatic coda, in which brass and timpani are greatly prominent.

INTERVAL Detailed notes on the programme will be available at the door. 29 BERNHARD GUELLER Considered to be “utterly enthralling” (The Australian, Adelaide), “masterly” (Halifax Chronicle, Canada) and “superlative” (Die Burger, Cape Town), Maestro Gueller is well known to audiences internationally for the passion, mastery and drama he brings to the concert podium. His conducting career has taken him to many top concert halls from America and Australia to Russia, Japan, China, Korea, Brazil, as well as countries in Europe. Orchestras he has conducted include the Stuttgart Radio Symphony, City of Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony in America, Orchestra of Loire in France, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Victoria Symphony Orchestra in Canada to name but a few. He is acknowledged for the work he does with youth orchestras in South Africa, Germany and Nova Scotia and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Dalhousie University in Halifax in 2009 in recognition of his “outstanding personal achievements”.

JOANNA FRANKEL Joanna Marie Frankel consistently garners worldwide acclaim for her technical prowess, her artistic sensitivity, and her captivating performances of the classical repertory’s most challenging masterpieces. She has toured as a concerto soloist and chamber musician across the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, implementing her passionate vision of performance excellence and arts advocacy on a global scale. Born in Philadelphia in 1982, Joanna trained at The Juilliard School in New York City, and received the school’s prestigious ‘William Schuman Prize for Outstanding Artistic Excellence and Leadership’ upon graduation. Her post-graduate work continued at Carnegie Hall, where she entered the inaugural class of “The Academy,” the Hall’s ground-breaking initiative that trains ambitious young musicians to be 21st century arts leaders. Appointed First Concertmaster of the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in 2013 (Durban, South Africa), she performs on the 1846 Jean Baptiste Vuillaume violin labelled ‘Joseph Guarnerius fecit Cremonae,’ on extended loan from a generous patron through the Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation in Chicago.

KZN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Bongani Tembe, Chief Executive and Artistic Director Since its inaugural concert in the Pietermaritzburg City Hall on 22 October 1983, the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra has contributed many stimulating experiences to diverse audiences nationally and internationally. The KZN Philharmonic has 70 fulltime professional musicians who hail from over 20 countries including South Africa, the USA, Russia, Bulgaria, Norway, Germany, Italy and the UK. Widely regarded as Africa’s premier orchestra, the KZN Philharmonic has established itself as both a musical force to be reckoned with and as an ensemble willing to break down preconceived notions of what an orchestra should be.

LEADERSHIP AND COMMITMENT The KZN Philharmonic Orchestra is a not-for-profit company with a committed board of directors consisting of prominent business people and community leaders. The Orchestra has been ably led by Bongani Tembe, an accomplished Juilliard School graduate who, over the past 20 years, has been lauded for helping to raise tens of millions of rands to ensure the Orchestra’s survival and stability. His strong vision fosters high artistic values and a commitment to engaging with the diverse communities of South Africa. A comprehensive education, development and community engagement programme exposes more than 32,000 urban and township learners to music educational concerts whilst the Orchestra also spends GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT two weeks a year in the rural areas working with local schools and communities. In May and September the finest young soloists in the country are given an SATURDAY 4 JULY 18:00 opportunity to be accompanied on stage by the Orchestra, a first for many of DURATION 1hr 40min (incl. 20min interval) them as they embark on professional careers. At least ten youngsters per year AGE RECOMMENDATION 12 + are nurtured in the KZN Philharmonic’s Cadetship programme, whereby they TICKETS Full price R100, R90, R80 join the orchestra to play in most of their performances whilst being taught on Concessions R90, R80, R70 a weekly basis by the principal of their section. Today more than 30 former KZN Philharmonic cadets are professionals in orchestras in South Africa and overseas. 30

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE KWAZULU-NATAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA GALA CONCERT

CONDUCTED BY RICHARD COCK

he Gala Concert provides an opportunity for the Standard Bank Young Artist for Music to be Tfeatured as a soloist and Musa Ngqungwana, in honour of the occasion, has chosen I am an African by Peter Klatzow who turns 70 this year. Musa is currently living in the USA but still has his roots strongly planted in the Eastern Cape – home also of Thabo Mbeki, who penned the words.

The story of Tintinyane, the girl with the golden voice, is also an African tale with strong emphasis on the role of women – her three brothers fail to save her, but she saves herself in the end.

The Gala Concert also allows the KZN Philharmonic to show off its skills with two members of the Orchestra, Sorin Osorean and Boris Kerimov, also featuring as soloists.

Just by the way, we celebrate so many composers who have centenaries in 2015! This is always a fun event – and a regular feature on the Festival Calendar.

PROGRAMME SOLOISTS MUSA NGQUNGWANA Baritone (Standard Bank Young Artist PAUL DUKAS Fanfare from La Péri for Music) (1865-1935) SORIN OSOREAN Horn BORIS KERIMOV Cello ÉMILE WALDTEUFEL Espana MAGDALENE DE VRIES Marimba (1837-1915)

ALEXANDER GLAZUNO (Sorin Osorean) Reverie for horn and (1865-1936) orchestra

PETER KLATZOW (Musa Ngqungwana) I am an African (B 1945)

PETER KLATZOW Tintinyane a story for orchestra

INTERVAL

GERÓNIMO GIMÉNEZ La Boda de Luis Alonso (1854-1923) Intermezzo

ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV (Boris Kerimov) Two Pieces for (1865-1936) for Cello and Orchestra Opus. 20

ÉMILE WALDTEUFEL Les Patineurs Valse (1837-1915) The Skaters’ Waltz

CHARLES GOUNOD (Musa Ngqungwana) Vous qui faites (1818-1893) l’endormie from Faust

JEAN SIBELIUS Karelia Suite (1865-1957)

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT SUNDAY 5 JULY 15:00 DURATION 2hrs (incl. interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION 8 + TICKETS: Full price R100, R90, R80 Concessions R90, R80, R70 31

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE AYRSHIRE FIDDLE ORCHESTRA

THE AYRSHIRE FIDDLE ORCHESTRA INVITES YOU TO ENJOY THE EXCITING, ENERGETIC, RHYTHMIC AND SOULFUL MUSIC OF . A GROUP OF 80 TALENTED YOUNG STRING PLAYERS FROM THE WEST OF SCOTLAND, TOGETHER WITH A BAGPIPER, WILL ENTERTAIN YOU WITH THEIR ENTHUSIASTIC PLAYING OF THE FIDDLE, KEEPING ALIVE THE TRADITIONAL JIGS, REELS, AND WALTZES OF SCOTLAND.

he Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra was founded in TAugust 1982 by Wallace and Lex Galbraith, PROGRAMME PIECES who are both string instrument tutors in Ayrshire in South West Scotland, with the aim of encouraging MARCHES and developing Scots Fiddle Music among local Scottish Salute, Hen’s Mairch O’er the Midden, young musicians many of whom were, or had been, A Hundred Thousand Welcomes, The Gay Gordons their pupils. The orchestra has steadily matured since those early beginnings and now has over 130 SLOW AIRS musicians from 10 to 18 years old playing a variety Niel Gow’s Lament for his Second Wife, A Red, Red Rose, of instruments. Apart from two major concerts in Ayr Lament for Rev. Archie Beaton, Inisheer, Auld Lang Syne at Christmas and midsummer, the orchestra perform regularly throughout South Ayrshire and the West WALTZES: of Scotland, giving charity concerts and providing Kathleen’s Waltz, Burns’ Waltzes musical entertainment at a wide range of corporate and civic events. International tours have become a JIGS: regular feature of the orchestra’s activities with the Kenny Gillies, Wheels of the World dual benefit of taking their particular brand of fiddle playing to a wider audience and introducing the REELS: players to different cultures and customs. France, Struy Lodge, Eightsome Reels, Dashing White Sergeant, Willafjord, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, China, New Zealand, Cajun Fiddlin’, Gardebylaten Canada and America – including the White House – have resounded to their rhythmic playing. The BAGPIPES AND ORCHESTRA: orchestra is honoured and excited to have been Skye Boat Song, Highland Cathedral, invited to bring their music-making to South Africa Nelson Mandela’s Welcome to Glasgow for the first time and to perform at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.

DIRECTORS R. Wallace Galbraith MBE and Euan and Kathleen Terras MUSICAL DIRECTOR David T Moore LEADER Megan Espie

TRANSNET GREAT HALL FRIDAY 3 JULY 19:00 SATURDAY 4 JULY 12:00 DURATION 1hr 15min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS: Full price R70 Concessions R65 32

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE (HE)ART OF THE MATTER WITH THE BEST OF FRIENDS

NICHOLAS NICOLAIDIS began CONDUCTOR RICHARD COCK his musical career as a chorister FEATURING The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra at the world famous Drakensberg with Boys’ Choir School in 1988. Since MAGDALENE MINNAAR soprano then Nicholas has continued his TIMOTHY MOLOI tenor singing career both as a member NICHOLAS NICOLAIDIS tenor of the Chanticleer Singers and as a distinguished soloist, whilst PROGRAMME expanding his musical disciplines to include conducting and specialised SALUTE TO OL’ BLUE EYES Orchestra teaching. Various arr Moss

MAGDALENE MINNAAR is currently FLY ME TO THE MOON Nicholas Nicolaidis a freelance musician based in Cape Bart Howard arr M Cheyne Town, where she received her Honours degree in music (voice) QUIET NIGHT Magdalene Minnaar with distinction from the University Anna Ternheim arr M Cheyne of Cape Town in 2005. Her love for experimenting with music has led THIS CAN’T BE LOVE Timothy Moloi her down different musical avenues, Lorenz Hart arr M van Dijk including an interesting opera career, jazz collaborations, theatre S’WONDERFUL, S’MARVELLOUS Magdalene Minnaar and film work, as well as electronic George Gershwin arr M van Dijk music production. MY FUNNY VALENTINE Nicholas Nicolaidis TIMOTHY MOLOI grew up in a Lorenz Hart arr M van Dijk home filled with song. It is this love for music, and his flair for infusing A WHOLE NEW WORLD Nicholas Nicolaidis & Magdalene Minnaar familiar and beloved standards with Alan Menken a new freshness, that has made him a favourite with audiences WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Timothy Moloi throughout South Africa. With his Theile/Weiss arr S Cock smooth-as-velvet voice and masterful range, Timothy is one of South 76 TROMBONES Orchestra Africa’s most extraordinary talents. Meredith Willson arr L Anderson He returned to South Africa in 1999, having completed his studies at UNFORGETTABLE Nicholas Nicolaidis Ohio Wesleyan University in the USA. Irving Gordon arr M Cheyne Since then Timothy has led a busy performance schedule performing I LOVE PARIS IN THE SPRINGTIME Magdalene Minnaar at several major South African sports Cole Porter arr M van Dijk events including the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the Vodacom Tri-Nations, THE LADY IS A TRAMP Timothy Moloi the SA Open and the Summer Cup. Lorenz Hart arr M Cheyne He performed at the Cricket SA Season Launch and the send-off MEMORY Orchestra banquet for the Springboks, prior Lloyd Webber to their victory in the 2007 Rugby World Cup. BEWITCHED, BOTHERED & BEWILDERED Timothy Moloi Lorenz Hart arr M van Dijk

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT MY WAY Nicholas Nicolaidis MONDAY 6 JULY 14:00 & 19:30 Paul Anka/Claude Francois/Jacques Revaux arr M Cheyne DURATION 1hr 30min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All MAC THE KNIFE Timothy Moloi, Nicholas Nicolaidis & TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 Magdalene Minnaar Kurt Weill arr M Campbell

A percentage of proceeds from this concert will be donated to the Theatre Benevolent Fund, a registered South African charity founded and administered by caring arts professionals to provide a reasonable standard of care and comfort to those performers who find themselves incapacitated and destitute by virtue of their illness. 33 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE US EMBASSY, AND IN ASSOCIATION WITH BAYLOR UNIVERSITY AND GEORGIA COLLEGE PRESENT ROMANTIC SONGS OF LOVE

BY LONESTAR CLASSICAL VOICES QUARTET BRONWEN FORBAY

omantic Songs of PROGRAMME RLove is a delightful programme of German Neue Liebeslieder, Op. 65 (1874) Da geh’ ich zu Maxim from Die songs performed by Music by Johannes Brahms lustige Witwe (1906) the US based Lonestar (1833-1897) Music by Franz Lehár (1870-1948) Classical Voices Quartet, Texts from Polydora (1855) by Libretto by Viktor Léon and Leo Stein which is on its first Georg Friedrich Daumer and Johann South African tour. The Wolfgang von Goethe Lippen Schweigen from Die lustige Quartet is comprised of Witwe (1906) acclaimed South African, Ungarische Tänze, No. 5 (1869) American and Korean Music by Johannes Brahms Dein ist mein ganzes Herz from Das artists and includes (1833-1897) Land des Lächelns (1929) 2007 Standard Bank Music by Franz Lehár (1870-1948) Young Artist for Music, Liebeslieder, Op. 52 (1868-9) Libretto by Ludwig Herzer and Fritz and Fulbright alumna, Music by Johannes Brahms Löhner-Beda Bronwen Forbay. (1833-1897) Texts from Polydora (1855) by Georg Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein from Die JAMIE VAN EYCK The first half of the Friedrich Daumer Fledermaus (1874) programme features Music by Johann Strauss II a traditional Western (1825-1899) classical recital INTERVAL Libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard programme of works Genée by romantic composer Johannes Brahms. Aufschwung,​ from Fantasiestücke, Mein Herr Marquis from Die Op. 12, No. 2 (1837) Fledermaus (1874) The second half opens Music by Robert Schumann Brüderlein und Schwesterlein from with a dramatic piano (1810-1856) (1874) solo followed by entertaining highlights BEETHOVEN ROOM from selected German FRIDAY 3 JULY 15:00 operettas. SUNDAY 5 JULY 19:00 A detailed programme DURATION 1hr 20min (incl. 10min interval) of the works, AGE RECOMMENDATION 12 + together with English TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 translations, will be available at the venue. BESTER CHRISTIAN

QUARTET BRONWEN FORBAY Soprano JAMIE VAN EYCK Mezzo-Soprano RANDALL UMSTEAD Tenor CHRISTIAN BESTER Baritone

PIANISTS KAJU LEE & CATHERINE FOXCROFT

KAJU LEE UMSTEAD RANDY CATHERINE FOXCROFT 34

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS KATHLEEN TAGG AND ANDRE PETERSEN PIANO DUO ALL ARRANGEMENTS CREATED BY KATHLEEN TAGG AND ANDRE PETERSEN

his piano duo brings together two of world. Drawing from the rich sonic tapestries within piano music, with performances TSouth Africa’s most celebrated pianists, of classical music, jazz improvisation, of original compositions and works by one classical and one jazz artist, in a unique with nuances of South African jazz and esteemed South African jazz composers, first of its kind collaboration, promising to indigenous musics from Southern Africa, this newly arranged specifically for two pianos. be a sure highlight of festivals around the duo explores diverse realms of possibilities

PROGRAMME

RAPELLA Bheki Mseleku

TIME WATCHERS Andre Petersen

BOW SONG Traditional

SECOND TIME AROUND Kathleen Tagg

CAPE DOCTOR Andre Petersen

AFRICA DAWN Abdullah Ibrahim

UNTITLED Dizu Plaatjies

TONK Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn

EMBRACEABLE YOU George Gershwin

BERIMBAU Kathleen Tagg

Before leaving South Africa in 2001 for musics for inspiration in her transcriptions, While residing in Europe (2010-2011) New York, KATHLEEN TAGG completed and working with extended piano Andre completed a Masters Degree in Jazz her studies at the University of Cape Town, techniques, loop pedals and electronics, Piano Studies at the prestigious Lemmens followed by graduate degrees from Mannes all of which will be incorporated into this Institute, Belgium, graduating cum laude. College of Music and the Manhattan School project. Before this period, he completed studies of Music in New York, which awarded her in Classical Piano at the University of Cape the Helen Cohn Award as the outstanding ANDRE PETERSEN has worked for many Town and the University of South Africa. Doctoral graduate, and where she later years with the finest South African and taught for four years. Her many years spent international jazz musicians. In addition living and performing in New York City to performing with his own groups and have inspired her to think of the piano in a iconic SA musicians such as Winston BEETHOVEN ROOM totally different way, using the inside of the Mankunku, Feya Faku, Robbie Jansen and TUESDAY 7 JULY 19:00 piano to create a unique sound world. Her many others, Andre has also worked with THURSDAY 9 JULY 15:00 experience as a classical pianist, theatre a musically diverse group of artists such DURATION 1hr 10min (no interval) composer, pianist in many as Grammy award winning world music AGE RECOMMENDATION 12 + projects and a producer has led her to create group Zap Mama, jazz musicians Reggie music and shows that cross boundaries and Washington, Dré Pallemaerts, Joe Lovano, TICKETS Full price R70 genres effortlessly. Her latest solo work sees Toots Thielemans, Stefon Harris, Wynton Concessions R65 her drawing on southern African indigenous Marsalis, Kenny Barron to name but a few. 35

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH BIBLIOTEEK MUSIC PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

MAGDALENE MINNAAR Soprano octurne is the re-discovery of of the Night in William Kentridge’s N“Night” as a time of wonder; a celebrated version of . JOSÉ DIAS Piano space for flights of fancy; a dark world that brings fear and folly the same Pianist, JOSÉ DIAS was born in Fafe way it awakens passion and romantic (Portugal) where he had his first piano longing. Through a selection of some of lessons, later enrolling at the Academia PROGRAMME: the most timelessly beautiful songs and de Musica Valentim Moreira de Sá in works for piano, audiences fall under Guimarães and José Atalaya in Fafe. GABRIEL FAURÉ Clair de Lune Op. 47 No. 2 the spell of the intoxicating “Moon” and At the end of his school studies he (1845-1924) Après un Rêve Op. 7 No. 1 experience all the facets of “Night” in a travelled to South Africa to study at the truly unexpected musical journey. University of Stellenbosch where he Ah, non credea mirarti obtained his BMus Honours cum laude, (1801-1835) (from “La Sonnambula”) South African soprano and musical specialising in piano performance. entrepreneur MAGDALENE MINNAAR Besides his regular appearances in CLAUDE DEBUSSY La Soiree dans Grenade has entertained audiences across the solo recitals and his ever growing (1862-1918) (from “Estampes”) (piano solo) globe with her versatile voice and demand as accompanist and chamber Beau Soir enigmatic stage presence, evident musician in South Africa and Europe, Apparition in her acclaimed performances of José Dias has also appeared as soloist the female lead in the international with the University of Stellenbosch FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Nocturne Op. 32 No. 2 touring production Showboat and The Symphony Orchestra, the Kunst (1810-1849) (piano solo) Phantom of the Opera. Magdalene Universität Graz Orchester, the Con has won numerous awards and prizes Spirito Philharmonic, the KwaZulu-Natal Die Nacht Op. 10 No. 3 including the Mimi Coertse Bursary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cape (1864-1949) Cæcilie Op.27 No. 2 Competition (winner), the Unisa Voice Town Philharmonic Orchestra. Competition (song prize) and a Kanna CARLYLE FLOYD Aint’ it a pretty night Award as part of the South African (1926-) (from “Susannah”) Sopranos (Best Classical Production). After receiving her Honours Degree BEETHOVEN ROOM RACHMANINOFF/TCHAIKOVSKY Lullaby (piano in Music, with distinction, from the WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 19:00 transcription) College of Music at the University of THURSDAY 9 JULY 12:00 Cape Town, she was accepted into DURATION 1hr (no interval) SERGEI RACHMANINOV These Summer Nights the prestigious Cape Town Opera (1873-1943) Eti letniye nochi Op.12 No. 5 Studio where she performed and AGE RECOMMENDATION 12 + studied nearly 20 roles, including Gilda TICKETS: Full price R70 ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Song to the Moon Měsíčku na () and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) Concessions R65 (1841-1904) nebi hlubokém (from “Rusalka”) and was understudy of the Queen 36

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE KWAZULU-NATAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, PRESENTS KWAZULU-NATAL PHILHARMONIC ENSEMBLE CONCERTO MUSIC OF THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES

PROGRAMME KZNPO STRING ENSEMBLE (1875-1937) String Quartet in F major

Ravel completed his String Quartet in early April 1903 at the age of 28. It has a strict four movement classical structure: Moderato très doux begins as a sonata form allegro, the following Assez vif-Très rythmé functions as the quartet’s scherzo, while Très lent acts as a contrasting foil. The last movement, Vif et agité, reintroduces themes from the earlier passages and ends with a striking finale. The work changed the genre with its altered movement forms, and emphasis on colour and rhythm. When first performed the work was not met with much acclaim by the critics but it nevertheless catapulted Ravel’s career not backwards but forward: a sympathetic public rallied behind his compositions and musical style. In 1905, Claude Debussy wrote to Ravel: “In the name of the gods of music and in my own, do not touch a single note you have written in your Quartet.” Ravel’s String Quartet in F major stands as one of the most widely performed chamber music works in the classical repertoire, representing Ravel’s early achievements and rise from obscurity.

STEVE REICH (1936-) Drumming (1st movement)

American minimalist composer Steve Reich began composition of the work after a short visit to Africa and observing music and musical ensembles there, especially under the master drummer Gideon Alorwoyie in Ghana. K. Robert Schwarz describes the work as “minimalism’s first masterpiece.” The work employs Reich’s trademark technique of phasing. Phasing is achieved when two players, or one player and a recording, are playing a single repeated pattern in unison, usually on the same kind of instrument. One player changes tempo slightly, while the other remains constant, and eventually the two players are one or several beats out of sync with each other. They may either ENSEMBLE MUSICIANS stay there, or phase further, depending on the piece. Reich’s music has had much success in Europe and the US and in 2009 he was awarded the Pulitzer KZNPO String Ensemble: Prize for Music. JOANNA FRANKEL violin VIOLETA OSORHEAN violin DAVID SNAITH viola DAVID BRUCE (1970) Clarinet Quintet Gumboots BORIS KERIMOV cello ANNELIZE DE VILLIERS clarinet Gumboots was born out of the brutal labour conditions in South Africa under apartheid, in which black miners were chained together and wore STEPHANE PECHOUX percussion gumboots while they worked in the flooded gold mines, because it was JORGE RENES LÓPEZ percussion cheaper for the owners to supply the boots than to drain the floodwater JOSHUA KIM percussion from the mine. Slapping the boots and chains was used by the workers as a THANDO NKANGANA percussion form of communication which was otherwise banned in the mine, and this later developed into a form of dance. Gumboot dancing is characterised by RHODES CHAPEL a huge vitality and zest for life. Gumboots is in two parts, the first is tender and slow moving, at times ‘yearning’; at times seemingly expressing a kind of SUNDAY 5 JULY 19:00 tranquillity and inner peace. The second is a complete contrast, consisting of TUESDAY 7 JULY 15:00 five, ever-more-lively ‘gumboot dances’, often joyful and always vital. However, DURATION 1hr 10min (no interval) although there are some African music influences in the music, the piece is AGE RECOMMENDATION 12 + not specifically ‘about’ the Gumboot dancers, if anything it can be seen as an TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 abstract celebration of the rejuvenating power of dance, moving as it does from introspection through to celebration. 37

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS REAKOPANA OPERA’S NOT JUST ANOTHER NIGHT AT THE OPERA TENOR Herman Theron DIRECTED AND CREATED BY YVES SENN MEZZO SOPRANO Violina Anguelov PIANO Samantha Riedel

Herman Theron and Violina Anguelov, two of South Africa’s best exponents in operatic theatre, team up with pianist Samantha Riedel, for an unforgettable journey through a world of opera. A married couple struggling with the pressures put on them and celebrating life by remembering past experiences and creating new ones. If you haven’t been exposed to opera up close and personal, this will be an excellent introduction. Just be forewarned that there is a great possibility that you just may fall in love.

PROGRAMME ulgarian-born Violina Anguelov Herman Theron has a lyric-spinto Bobtained her Performer’s Diploma tenor voice that allows him the scope RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO I : Recitar… in Opera with distinction and her to sing many different roles with ease. (1857-1919) vesti la guibba Honours Degree in Singing (First Class) He trained with Nicolai Gedda one of G F HANDEL Alcina: Sta nell’ircana from the University of Cape Town. the best tenors to grace the world’s (1685-1759) She has won many prizes including opera stages. He is presently being the Adcock Ingram Music Prize, the mentored by opera director Yves Senn GIOACHINO ROSSINI La Cenerentola: Un soave Leonard Hall Memorial Prize and the of L’Avant Scéne Opéra, Switzerland. (1792-1868) non so che Erik Chisholm Prize. She has performed It was through this partnership that over 30 leading roles in a multitude Reakopana Opera was formed in 2011. Carmen La fleur que tu m’avias of highly proclaimed performances Herman has performed in numerous (1838-1875) jetée and Carmen: Seguidilla in South Africa, Germany, Bulgaria, operas both abroad and in South Australia and Sweden, has been Africa. His aim is to develop young : soloist in most the major oratorio works talent and prepare them as the next (1819-1880) Reflection Duet: and is equally at home with songs from generation of performers towards the O Dieu! de quelle ivresse musicals, operettas, Russian folk songs creation of a vibrant local industry. CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Samson and Dalilah: and lighter cross-over music. (1835-1921) Mon Coeur s’ouvre a ta voix

GIACOMO PUCCINI Tosca: Recondita armonia Samantha Riedel is an award winning South African pianist and accompanist. (1858-1924) She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including first prize in the W A MOZART Cosi fan tutte: Smanie implacabili Lionel Bowman competition for the playing the music of Beethoven and the Nina (1756-1791) Schumann overseas scholarship competition. She has worked extensively in both South Africa and Scotland as accompanist , chamber musician, and soloist. Rigoletto: La donna è mobile (1813-1901) Yves Senn was born in Switzerland. He made his début GIOACHINO ROSSINI L’italiana in Algeri: Cruda sorte as an opera singer in 1981 with the Berlin Opera. Not (1792-1868) only has he performed in numerous operas internationally but he also directed both PIETRO MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana: opera and theatre. He worked from (1863-1945) Tu qui Santuzza 1998 to 2003 as general director of the Opera and Theatre Festival LEONARD BERNSTEIN Trouble in Tahiti: in Arles (France) and in 2004 (1918-1990) What a movie served as producer FERENCZ LEHÁR The Merry Widow: of the cultural (1870-1948) Love Unspoken events for the International JACQUES OFFENBACH La Perichole: Olympic (1819-1880) Ah quel diner Committee. He is currently director of RHODES CHAPEL the L’Avant Scéne Opéra, THURSDAY 9 JULY 19:00 Switzerland. SATURDAY 11 JULY 15:00 DURATION 1hr 20min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION 12 + TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 38

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS WAR & PEACE

PROGRAMME A CONCERT BY CANDLELIGHT BY L’Homme Armée Trad. 14th Century THE CHANTICLEER SINGERS In Flanders Fields Eleanor Daley DIRECTOR Richard Cock MCMXIV - Philip Larkin NARRATOR Peter Terry It’s a long way to Tipperary Harry Williams

Pack up your troubles Felix Powell n 1915, the year Rhodes Chapel was built; there was a stalemate Ion the Western Front. The Chanticleer Singers explore “War” and Recollections of Rifleman Henry Williamson “Peace” in a programme of music, poetry and personal recollections of this terrible time in the First World War. It was also a time when the Beati quorum via Charles V Stanford vision of Anglican nuns of the Order of the Sisters of the Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord founded and built the beautiful Chapel of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Revelation 1 – 8 St Mary and All the Angels now known as Rhodes Chapel. The Sisters looked forward to an era of “Peace” and learning far away from the Factum est silentium Richard Dering horrors of War. Break of Day in the Trenches - Isaac Rosenberg Formed in 1980 by Richard Cock, The Chanticleer Singers are Silent Night/Stille Nacht Franz X Gruber regarded as one of South Africa’s leading chamber choirs. Over the years their reputation and renown have grown through their popular Winter Warfare - Edgell Pickward public appearances, as well as radio and television broadcasts. Though based in Johannesburg, the choir has performed at venues Thou knowest Lord Henry Purcell throughout South Africa and has toured Botswana, the United Kingdom, Namibia, Israel and the USA. Their repertoire is wide and varied, and Justorum animae Charles V Stanford includes both serious and light music ranging from Renaissance to contemporary. While generally concentrating on a cappella music, Armistice - Paul Dehn the choir has also appeared with many of our top orchestras and performed specially commissioned works by a number of South African Never weather beaten sail Charles H H Parry composers. Everyone Sang - Siegfried Sassoon RHODES CHAPEL Joshua fought the battle Arr Moses Hogan SATURDAY 11 JULY 19:00 DURATION 1hr (no interval) For the Fallen - Laurence Binyon AGE RECOMMENDATION 12 + Keep the home fires burning Ivor Novello TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 39

he Chanticleer Singers have performed most of Peter THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS TKlatzow’s choral music and have given first performances of several of his works.

In this tribute to Peter Klatzow in his 70th birthday year, they give the first South African performance of The Beatitudes and they are joined by Magda de Vries and Carel Henn – both of whom THE MUSIC have performed several works of his in the past. The Chanticleer Singers are proud of their association with Peter Klatzow and by performing his works help to promote the work of OF PETER one of South Africa’s more important contemporary composers. PETER KLATZOW was born in Springs in 1945. He is one of the few South Africans with a truly international profile. In 1964 he attended the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied composition, piano and orchestration. In that year he KLATZOW won several of the College composition prizes as well as the Royal Philharmonic prize for composition. He spent the following years in Italy and Paris, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger. A 70TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE BY He returned to South Africa in 1966 and worked at the SABC as THE CHANTICLEER SINGERS a music producer. in 1973 he was appointed to the University of Cape Town as Director of the College of Music and Professor in Composition. In 1986 he was elected to the rank of Fellow of the University of Cape Town for “having performed original PROGRAMME distinguished academic work of such quality as to merit special recognition”. TWO SONGS FROM THE /XAM We who are stars He was awarded his DMus for published work in Composition THREE SPIRITUAL NOCTURNES in 1999, and the Cape Tercentenary Foundation’s Molteno Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Music in 2002. Peter Klatzow ETUDES FOR MARIMBA Magdalene de Vries has won prizes in Spain, the United Kingdom and Canada, and his works have been performed in various European centres and THE BEATITUDES Carel Henn – cello in the United States. In South Africa in 1994 he was awarded the prestigious Helgard Steyn prize for his piano suite From the Poets. PRAYERS & DANCES OF PRAISE FROM AFRICA Magdalene de Vries – marimba Commissions include The World of Paul Klee (III) (Switzerland), Te Deum (Cape Town) and Towards the Light (USA). In 2011 he was commissioned by SAMRO to compose a setting of Thabo Mbeki’s speech “I am an African” for use in the international vocal scholarship competition. That same year he attended a major festival of his marimba works in Tokyo, where he lectured at the Tokyo Music School and gave master classes on his music.

He is now retired from the University of Cape Town, though remains as Professor Emeritus. In 2011 the S.A. Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns awarded him the Huberte Rupert music prize for his lifetime work. In the same year he attended a major international event “Peter Klatzow in the City” which was held for a week in Rotterdam, and featured his music for marimba. In 2014 Peter Klatzow was once again awarded the Helgaard Steyn prize for his work Lightscapes which was commissioned for The World Marimba Festival in Stuttgart in 2012.

DIRECTED BY RICHARD COCK

with MAGDALENE DE VRIES marimba CAREL HENN cello

RHODES CHAPEL SUNDAY 12 JULY 15:00 DURATION 1hr (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION 12 + TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 40

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS

CLUSTER OF THE HARVEST CHOIR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CONDUCTOR Mokale Koapeng MANAGER Mpho Jivhuho

CLUSTER OF THE HARVEST CHOIR was formed in 1982 by PROGRAMME 1 – SOUNDS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA members of the Meadowlands Zone 3 SDA Church Choir. From Choral Music of Composers of African Descent inception, the group became an incubator for singing talent and composition. Some of the members of the group went on to Holy, O Lord R. Nathaniel Dett (Canada/USA) become core members of the SDASA Chorale, a ground-breaking Listen to The Lambs R. Nathaniel Dett group that undertook several international tours collaborating The Lord is my Strength Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with world class groups. After many years the choir was disbanded (Liberia/UK/USA) only to be revived in 2014. The choir performs a variety of different Three Yoruba Spiritual Songs Bode Omojola (Nigeria) music styles including jazz, gospel, classical and African art music. At the Mortuary Mokale Koapeng (South Africa) Tselapedi Mokale Koapeng SHALATI JOSEPH KHOSA (1936-2013) Alina Michael Mosoeu Moerane Khosa is best known for his more than 300 compositions of songs (Lesotho/South Africa) for school, church and adult choirs. At least sixty of these have at Tselane Pulumo Joseph Mohapeloa some time or other been prescribed for choir competitions and (Lesotho/South Africa) festivals, while many others have been sung on special occasions. Chabana sa Khomo Pulumo Joseph Mohapeloa He was the first recepient of the Premier’s Anglo-Platinum Award. Works by South African composers, Phelelani Mnomiya, Silindile Sono, MOKALE KOAPENG studied music at the African Cultural Bongani Khamanga and some songs from West African composers will Organisation of South Africa (ACOSA) and African Music and also be included in the programme. Drama Association (AMDA) and obtained a Masters Degree in Composition from the University of the Witwatersrand. He was composer-in-resident for the inaugural 2010 IHLOMBE South PROGRAMME 2 – THE SHALATI JOSEPH KHOSA RETROSPECTIVE African Choral Festival and the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival, and is one of the featured composers in the seminal South 1. Tingavala Ta 9. Ku Saseka Ka Tinyeleti African CD production entitled “The Bow Project”. 2. Ngopfu-ngopfu Hlayisa Mbilu 10. Ku Katekile L’a Nga Fambiki ya Wena 11. Mhinsi bulabula 3. O Yeso Murhadziwa, Ndza 12. Tintsaba ta Drakensberg TRANSNET GREAT HALL ku Nawela 13. Khanimambo 4. Nyari Ya Ntima 14. Ku Saseka Ka Tinyeleti WEDNESDAY 8 JULY PROGRAMME 1 20:00 5. Mintirho Ya bulabula 15. Ku Katekile L’a Nga Fambiki THURSDAY 9 JULY PROGRAMME 2 20:00 6. Tintsaba ta Drakensberg 16. Mhinsi Yi Rilela Marhambu DURATION 1hr 10min (no interval) 7. Khanimambo 17. Moya Wanga AGE RECOMMENDATION 8 + 8. Ku Katekile Swisiwane 18. Muponisi, Yesu Wanga TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 Emoyeni 19. When the River is Narrow 41

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL ARENA PROGRAMME PRESENTS THE SOUTH AFRICAN PREMIERE OF JOANNA WICHEREK’S POEMS his unusual recital featuring a Andrzej Panufnik, Piotr Perkowski and TPolish ensemble will take you on an Paweł Mykietyn. The title of the concert unforgettable journey into the world of draws on the poems that served as the tenderness and affection, the sonority of source of inspiration for these composers. silence, and a dreamy mysteriousness. The content of Robert Desnos’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables, Japanese Michał Sławecki and Joanna Wicherek poetry, and William Shakespeare’s have collaborated as a duet for the last magnificent Sonnets appear in the pieces. eight years performing successfully around Europe. The pieces selected for this The recital invites you to explore a wide programme represent the most significant range of intimate emotions revolving Polish contemporary music written for from desire to childish naivety. This male soprano and piano. The programme interdisciplinary art performance created consists of works written by renowned by the unique male voice, piano and vivid Polish composers of modern classical video visualisations will draw you into an music, including Witold Lutosławski, audio-visual interplay.

“Wicherek performs with finesse... Through sensitive tonal control, imaginatively and expressively shaped phrases, and fine attention to detail, Wicherek’s interpretation conveyed an inspired sense of musical characterisation.” - CUE 2014

MICHAŁ SŁAWECKI Male Soprano JOANNA WICHEREK Piano MICHAŁ WICHEREK Video Visualisations

BEETHOVEN ROOM FRIDAY 10 JULY 12:30 SATURDAY 11 JULY 14:00 & 19:00 SUNDAY 12 JULY 14:00 DURATION 70min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R60 Concessions R50 42

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS CONDUCT UNBECOMING III WHAT’S IN A NAME?

ichard Cock has become well-known for his charming and best known. He was organist and director of music at St Mary’s Rhumorous presentations about conductors and the world of Cathedral for 12 years and was elected a Fellow of the Royal conducting. He returns to the stage for the third presentation in School of Church Music for his services to church music in South the series, making it Conduct Unbecoming III – this time exploring Africa. more deep corners of the conducting world, with anecdotes about cranky conductors and the difficulties of his own name and the He founded the Symphony Choir of Johannesburg and the situations that arise concerning it! internationally recognised Chanticleer Singers 32 years ago. In 1999, Richard left the orchestra to pursue a freelance career and to Richard Cock was born in Port Elizabeth and educated at stimulate music activities throughout South Africa. Woodridge Preparatory School and the Diocesan College, Cape Town. He pursued his musical studies at the Cape Town College As a conductor, he is in much demand countrywide. In May of Music, from which he graduated in 1971. In 1972, he won a 2000, he received an Honorary Doctorate in Music from Rhodes scholarship to the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), where University. He is chairman of the Apollo Music Trust, serves as a he was awarded several prizes and diplomas. In 1978 he became board member of Business Arts South Africa, the Ingoma Trust, Director of Music at the Cathedral Choir School and assistant and the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra, and is a member of the organist at Chichester Cathedral. During his years in England he National Arts Festival Committee. became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. After his return to South Africa in 1980, Richard breathed new life into the National Symphony Orchestra, where he was appointed Music Director in 1991. However, it is as a choral trainer and conductor that he is

VICTORIA THEATRE TUESDAY 7 JULY 12:00 DURATION 1hr (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION Adults only TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 43

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL WITH SUPPORT FROM THE EMBASSY OF COLOMBIA PRESENT BATERIMBA CARLOS FERNANDO BALANTA – A ONE-MAN PERCUSSIONIST EXTRAORDINAIRE

arlos Fernando Balanta’s energetic preserve and disseminate traditional Cone-man show combines several music. This is the world’s largest Afro- types of drums (kick drum, snare, cymbals, Latino festival and is a great way to begin bongos, cowbells, clave, etc.), a traditional a trip to Colombia’s Pacific region, with marimba from the Colombian Pacific, its rich culture and history. Every August, gesture, voice, objects, even a bass guitar, thousands of Colombians descend on all interpreted, simultaneously, by a single Cali to enjoy a weekend of the best Afro artist giving life to the act – Baterimba. music South America has to offer.

Born in Santander de Quilichao in the Batarimba achieved nation-wide district of Cauca, Balanta, popularly known recognition in 2012 when the reality TV as Baterimba, was seduced from a young show “Colombia’s Got Talent” introduced age by Colombian traditional music. His him on national television. Known for family’s participation in Cauca’s musical his expertise in combining traditional traditions also had a major influence on music with other styles and rhythms his musical development. Batarimba’s while always respecting the roots and the unique sound benefits from his research culture of his heritage, Batarimba has been into Colombian folk music and his invited to perform and run workshops at incorporation of other musical traditions and in 2008 he was placed first in the national and international conferences. from regions of South and Central America. free style category. The Petronio Álvarez Batarimba has also appeared at festivals “Afro-Colombian” Festival in Cali is a in Croatia, France, Bolivia, Peru and In 2007 Batarimba was nominated for wild celebration of the country’s African Ecuador becoming something of a cultural his contribution to the music of the heritage. It has established itself as a ambassador for Santander de Quilichao, Pacific at the Petronio Álvarez Festival cultural process that seeks to develop, Valle del Cauca.

THOMAS PRINGLE HALL, MONUMENT TUESDAY 7 JULY 21:00 THURSDAY 9 JULY 19:00 DURATION 1hr (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 8 + TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 44

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE SOUTHERN AFRICA AND THE FRENCH INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA (IFAS) PRESENT JAOJOBY – KING OF SALEGY A MACHINE OF IMPLACABLE RHYTHMS, A HURRICANE OF SOUNDS WITH INSISTENT CRIES

he “King of Salegy” is the nickname given to Samy Mandeha Samy Mitady. He then reoriented TEusèbe Jaojoby by his fellow countrymen. This is his career toward music, recording his first full- enough to show that he holds an important place in length album in 1992 and becoming a full-time the most popular style of music in Madagascar. professional musician the following year. In 2008, Jaojoby performed one of the most memorable The oldest of thirteen children, Jaojoby was born concerts of his career, appearing at the legendary in 1955 in Anboahangibe, near Sambava one of the Olympia, in Paris. The singer requested that the vanilla capitals of north-east Madagascar. Raised seats be removed from the venue for the occasion, a Catholic, he went to church several times a week giving the audience room to dance. In 2011, he and it was here, when singing canticles, that he opened his own cabaret club called Jao’s Pub realised he had a clear, powerful and energetic in Antananarivo in an effort to feed into the local voice. In 1970, at age 15, Jaojoby’s father sent him music scene. He also took up the role to study in Diego-Suarez, the capital of the North. of cultural representative for the The town was home to a large contingent of French Republic. In 2012 he released an soldiers and expatriates, and contemporary Western album recorded in Antananarivo, genres were commonly heard on the radio and in “Mila Anao”. The collection marks the town’s many nightclubs. Jaojoby was inspired his return to classic salegy by these styles and particularly by Freddy Ranarison with a touch of rock, who, in the 1960s, became the first Malagasy and includes his sons musician to use an electric guitar to perform coastal Lucas, Jackson and musical styles. Anderson, respectively on guitar, bass and vocals. One month after moving to Diego-Suarez, Jaojoby He has released eight entered a local talent competition and managed to full-length albums and win despite singing unaccompanied and without has toured extensively a microphone. He began performing in nightclubs in Madagascar and whenever the opportunity presented itself – singing abroad. French world with bands that were experimentally blending music magazine American soul and funk with the Malagasy musical Mondomix has traditions of the region. The artist gained popularity called Jaojoby the and toured regionally, producing four singles with most popular singer in The Players before the band broke up in 1979. Madagascar and the Indian Ocean islands. He Experimental blending of Western and Malagasy composes all his own musical elements was occurring simultaneously music and writes among a number of north-western bands and his own lyrics. musicians of Jaojoby’s generation. Although no single individual can be credited with creating the According to Zomaré modern salegy genre, Jaojoby ranks among the Magazine, the quality of earliest originators of the nascent musical style. In Jaojoby’s supple tenor 1979 Jaojoby moved to Antananarivo where he voice, the creativity of his studied sociology for two years at the University of compositions and the Antananarivo before accepting an offer to work for singer’s willingness to the national radio station as a journalist at the end of experiment have helped to 1980. He very soon started playing at the Papillon distinguish him from his bar at the Hilton Hotel in the evening and for the peers. Critics have credited next three years he spent his days at the national Jaojoby with popularising radio and his evenings singing at the Papillon. the salegy genre both within Jaojoby was promoted to Director of the Regional Madagascar and on the Information Service in Diego-Suarez in 1984, international music scene, necessitating his relocation back to the northwest and have identified him as an coast and bringing his cabaret performances to originator of two derivative an end. In 1988 Jaojoby resumed his musical versions of salegy, malessa career and rose to national prominence with his hit and baoenjy.

TRANSNET GREAT HALL FINGO SQUARE TUESDAY 7 JULY 20:00 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 14:00 DURATION 1hr 10min (no interval) DURATION 1hr 10min AGE RECOMMENDATION All AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R70 TICKETS Free Concessions R65 45 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF AFRICAN MUSIC (ILAM) AND WITH SUPPORT FROM THE US EMBASSY PRESENT CELEBRATING AFRICAN MUSIC A 60TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

MUSICAL DIRECTORS Elijah Madiba & Diane Thram PROJECT COORDINATOR Diane Thram

FEATURING MADOSINI MANQINA, AMAPHIKO DANCERS, PRESIDENT’S AWARD WITH A SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY PEDRO ESPI-SANCHIS, VIYAKAZI MOVERS , GUMBOOT DANCERS ANDREW TRACEY

he International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes locally and globally. Expect spectacular African dance performances TUniversity is a unique archive and research institute with a from Grahamstown’s own Amaphiko Dancers, the President’s legacy as the first organisation in Africa and the world dedicated Award Gumboot Dancers, and the Viyakazi Movers who showcase to research and conservation of African music. It houses one of the contemporary Pantsula. Renowned Madosini Manqina, Queen of world’s largest collections of historical recordings of African music South Africa’s Pondoland Music, with Pedro Espi-Sanchis offer up and a significant collection of African musical instruments from a fascination array of African music on multiple instruments. ILAM’s throughout sub Saharan Africa. retired director and consummate musician, Prof Emeritus Andrew Tracey promises to thrill the audience with his contribution to the Since its inception in1954 it has published the only accredited show. journal in the world dedicated to research on African music. Due to the exceptional quality of the thousands of field recordings made by Celebrating African Music complements the opening of the newly ILAM’s founder, Hugh Tracey from the 1930s-60s and its consistent created display of the ILAM Instrument Collection, in compliance commitment to dissemination of knowledge of African music, ILAM with conservation standards, made possible by a grant from the US is internationally recognised as the premier research centre and Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation. archive for African music on the continent and globally. The US Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) was Current projects at ILAM, since creating online accessibility to its established to help preserve cultural heritage and to demonstrate holdings, are digital return (repatriation) of the Tracey Collection US respect for other cultures. AFCP gives top priority to project to its communities of origin and efforts in outreach and education. activities in keeping with international standards for the preservation These include ILAM’s “For Future Generations” exhibition launched of cultural heritage. in 2010, now installed in its tenth location in South Africa, and the publication of music education textbooks using ILAM recordings The AFCP supports the preservation of cultural sites, cultural and images, Understanding African Music (2012) and Listen and objects, and forms of traditional cultural expression in more than 100 Learn – Music Made Easy (2013). developing countries around the world. AFCP-supported projects include the restoration of ancient and historic buildings, assessment Celebrating African Music is a high-energy vibrant show that brings and conservation of rare manuscripts and museum collections, to the stage local talent performing traditional and contemporary preservation and protection of important archaeological sites, and African music and dance and pays tribute to 60 years of ILAM as a the documentation of vanishing traditional craft techniques and research centre and heritage archive that promotes African music indigenous languages.

TRANSNET GREAT HALL SATURDAY 4 JULY 20:00 DURATION 1hr 10min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 46

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS HEROES AND VILLAINS A CHILDREN’S CONCERT

CONDUCTED BY RICHARD COCK WITH THE KWAZULU-NATAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Richard Cock and members of the KZN Philharmonic continue their series of concerts to introduce young people to the orchestra with a novel presentation entitled Heroes and Villains. This interactive educational concert will feature popular music and famous themes from TV and the silver screen. It will include Pirates of the Caribbean, James Bond, Star Wars and Superman, amongst others. It is a very relaxed atmosphere so come along and join in the fun!

DON’T MISS IT!

MONUMENT FOUNTAIN FOYER MONDAY 6 JULY 17:00 DURATION 50min TICKETS Free 47

The Tsolo Group of traditional healers from the Abathembu clan from the former Transkei Region wear traditional gear when they celebrate rituals or welcome new initiates to the healing process

THE EASTERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF SPORTS, RECREATION, ARTS & CULTURE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS WE SALUTE MADIBA A SHOWCASE OF EASTERN CAPE INDIGENOUS MUSIC AND DANCE

he Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture in collaboration with “I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a Tthe National Arts Festival has built a strong legacy of showcasing the diverse humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and Eastern Cape sub-tribes and clans through the presentation of cultural showcases heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here that are rich in diversity. This year, the theme for the Eastern Cape Indigenous today.” Music, Dance and Drama Ensemble is inspired from the chants of the Freedom Nelson Mandela Charter, singling out the life and experiences of South Africa’s own icon, Nelson Mandela.

This year’s ensemble comes with a finely selected cast of strong men and women from all parts of the Eastern Cape. Their spiritual rhythms will commemorate, remember and affirm the spirit of a giant of the universe. The showcase will evoke memories about the life of a warrior, a son of the soil who was chosen to take the children of the soil to the land of hope. TRANSNET GREAT HALL Through a vibrant narrative, the cast will unveil his spirit in his homeland, through what he always wanted to be known as, before he was called a politician or THURSDAY 2 JULY 19:00 world leader. His traditions and his reflections as a chief of Abathembu, Madiba, FRIDAY 3 JULY 11:00 Vela Bambhentsele, Sophitsho, Ngqolomsila, Yem Yem, will be unveiled in this DURATION 1hr 30min (no interval) production. Promising a feast of enchantment – of sounds, rhythms and styles that AGE RECOMMENDATION All are unique to the Eastern Cape – this production leads the audience on Madiba’s TICKETS Full price R65 Concessions R60 continuous journey embodied in spirit and remembrance.

We Salute Madiba (Rholihlahla) will be developed under the auspices of the Provincial Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture in the Eastern Cape and will be presented in Grahamstown in partnership with the National Arts Festival. 48 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH MAJOZI, UMLE AND HATCHETMAN

he National Arts Festival Fringe has, journeys both joyous and sorrowful. In 2015 irresistible harmonies will be presented Tfor years, played host to South Africa’s we invite some of those musicians onto our in one amazing evening of music that will troubadours – the singer/songwriters who, main stage for one unforgettable evening. make you proud to be South African, and solo or with a band, pour their heart and soul The fresh indie-folk of Majozi, the authentic leave you in awe of the depth of talent we into their music and take their audience on Mzansi sound of Umle, and Hatchetman’s can call our own.

MAJOZI has been winning fans across the land with his infectious electro- tinged indie-folk. He literally wears his heart on his sleeve, with tattoos on his arms dedicated to his two major inspirations: Jesus and his mother. At the age of thirteen, Majozi started teaching himself guitar, which eventually led to him studying jazz and popular music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In 2013, he released his first EP, Marvelous Light, which reached the top 10 in the South African iTunes chart and No.1 in the singer/songwriter category. The infectious beat and thoughtful lyrics have fans at his gigs singing along with gusto. Over the past year, Majozi has been steadily climbing the South African music ladder, getting the opportunity to open for Matthew Mole, Gangs of Ballet, Zebra and Giraffe and international artists, Yoav and The Lumineers. His most recent achievements include opening for Mango Groove at Durban Botanical Gardens, playing at Oppikoppi Music Festival and White Mountain Music Festival as well as playing on the main stage at the Mr Price Pro Concert. Now that he has signed with Universal Records, it seems the only way is up. His new single, Fire, has been playlisted on 5fm, and fans can look forward to the release of a new EP very soon.

Folk band UMLE, is a perfect blend of sound and melody seasoned with a pinch of soul, spiced with boom bap, hip hop and um-bhaqanga. “Besides ‘Umle’ being an authentic catchy home grown name, in isiXhosa it refers to the blackish residue that leaves its mark on the ceilings of rondavels which is what we wish to do with our sound,” Feido says. “We want to leave a permanent mark on those who come across our music”. Their lyrical content, a fluid combination of Xhosa and English, reports on social issues that they witness around them, and delivers a message of hope in a comedic manner with very lively performances. Spara is a very versatile guitarist who sets the tone for Feido to voice their stories. Umle have graced the stage with acts like Lebogang Mashile; Lesego Rampolokeng and Bongiziwe Mabandla. They also opened Laduma MaXhosa’s “My Heritage, My Inheritance” exhibition with ‘Scoop’ Ngwekazi. UMLE FEATURES Siyabonga ‘Feido’ Wayez and HATCHETMAN is three men, armed with acoustic guitars, bass and cajon, who Siphamandla ‘Spara’ Fete wrap their remarkable blend of three-part harmony around an intoxicating brew of original songs. Musically, they meet at the delta of folk, blues and rock – muscular yet beautiful, powerful, poignant and at times, quite otherworldly. Their music is rootsy and straight from the heart. Soulful song writing and introspective lyricism combine to draw the listener right into the nucleus of their world. There is no lead vocalist in Hatchetman. The exquisite and seamless blend of the three voices is what truly defines their sound. Influences range wildly, from Neil Young, CSN and The Beatles to and the Red Hot Chili Peppers; there’s truly something for everyone. For those who remember, think Crosby, Stills and Nash, Hatchetman is definitely a group to keep an eye out for. They are going somewhere.

HATCHETMAN FEATURES GUY BUTLER THEATRE Jono Tait guitar / vox THURSDAY 9 JULY 21:30 Nick Catto bass / vox DURATION 1hr 20min Matt Catto percussion / vox AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R80 Concessions R75 49

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS SHORTSTRAW

hortstraw started jamming as a three-piece in 2007, length album, Youthless, in January 2015. The album debuted at Srecording their debut EP, We Slept Through it All in 2008. #1 on the iTunes Album Chart and also continued Shortstraw’s A few years and member changes later, the band line-up was commercial radio success. The album heralds the band completed with original member Alastair Thomas. With a #1 venturing into a new direction; branching out and exploring album in 2015 and winner of two MK Awards for Best Album different genres. With their simple melodies, catchy rhythms and and Best Video in 2014, Shortstraw are making big waves on the brilliant lyrics, they are a true party band that is well known for national indie music scene. The band released their third full- getting the crowd dancing.

ALASTAIR THOMAS Vocals & Guitar TOM REVINGTON Guitar RUSSELL GRANT Bass JAKE RUBINSTEIN Drums GAD DE COMBES Keyboard

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT SATURDAY 11 JULY 22:00 DURATION 1hr 20min AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R120 Concessions R110 50

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE STANDARD BANK JAZZ FESTIVAL, PRESENTS RAY PHIRI

azz, fusion and Jmusician Ray Phiri needs little introduction to South African music fans. He is a living legend that has worked with some of the biggest names in the world. Phiri had already built up a large body of work by the time he met when the latter visited South Africa in 1985 to explore the local music. Simon asked Phiri to join his Graceland project, alongside Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

The massively successful project introduced the world to the multiple charms of South African music and paved the way for other musicians. He was invited by Simon to play at the Graceland 25th anniversary tour in 2012. He was a founding member of seminal bands the Cannibals and Stimela, leading the charge in proudly South African music. His guitar and vocal talents have allowed him to play with the lines between genres and collaborate with many famous musicians. Phiri has received many awards in recognition for his contribution in the music industry, including, in 2011, the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver, South Africa’s highest civilian honour for excellence and contribution to the arts, and, in 2012, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the South African Music Awards (SAMA).

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT FRIDAY 10 JULY 19:00 DURATION 1hr 20min AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R130 Concessions R120 51

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE STANDARD BANK JAZZ FESTIVAL, PRESENTS BEATENBERG

eatenberg, consisting of Matthew Field (guitar), BRoss Dorkin (bass) and Robin Brink (drums), create glorious indie pop that has been rapidly winning fans around the country. Their first album, Farm Photos, released independently in 2011, was a tender offering which made a lasting impression with its sophisticated harmonies and sincere delivery. In 2014, Beatenberg broke records with the track Pluto (Remember You), a collaboration with DJ Clock, which spent 17 weeks at number 1. Their current single, Rafael, became the most played song in the country four weeks after its release. Due for release on the 15th of August, their new album, The Hanging Gardens of Beatenberg, is an eclectic album written over three years filled with a variety of moods and ideas.

Beatenberg is showing that it is possible to make music on one’s own terms, whilst achieving commercial success. They are contributing to a new South African sound that pays homage to our country’s musical heritage whilst also breaking new ground with their global pop sensibility. Songwriter Matthew Field says: ‘It’s about emotions, images and fleeting senses of things: the mad stuff that everyone feels and almost understands.’

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 19:00 DURATION 1hr 20min AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R100 Concessions R90 52

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE STANDARD BANK JAZZ FESTIVAL, PRESENTS MI CASA

J’SOMETHING Vocals MO-T Trumpet DR DUDA Producer & Keyboard

with Kabelo Seleke (Sax) Carlo Jooste (Bass) Thomas Akuru (Percussion)

ince their inception in 2011 Their second album in 2013, -Su SMi Casa has taken South African Casa, was met with equal success. audiences by storm. A groovy mix They have opened for international of urban house and jazz influenced acts such as Drake, John Legend the band’s first album, Micasa Music, and Kool & The Gang and played in which went gold and won several over 12 African countries. Consisting South Africa Music Awards in 2012, of three core members, this young as well as nominations for Best group hails from Johannesburg and Dance Album, Album of the Year, Port Alfred and continues to make Group of the Year, Newcomer of the waves across the South African Year, and Record of the Year. electronic dance music scene.

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT FRIDAY 10 JULY 22:00 DURATION 1hr 20min AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R130 Concessions R120 53 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE STANDARD BANK JAZZ FESTIVAL, PRESENTS THANDISWA MAZWAI

handiswa Mazwai began her Tcareer in 1998 with Bongo Maffin, one of the pioneering bands of Kwaito, and after six award- winning albums she ventured into a solo career. Her first project – Zabalaza (2004) – reached double platinum status and won numerous awards including a Kora Award for Best African Female Artist and four South African Music Awards.

Her subsequent albums have gone on to further cement her status as one of South Africa’s most influential musicians, with her music defying categorisation and reflecting elements of African traditional, jazz, Afro-soul and house. The Guardian recently called her “South Africa’s finest female contemporary singer”.

Thandiswa has performed all over the world at venues including the FIFA 2010 World Cup Opening Ceremony, the Apollo Theatre, Womex, The Cannes Film Festival, BBC World Music Awards and several Mandela 46664 concerts.

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT SATURDAY 11 JULY 19:00 DURATION 1hr 20min AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R130 Concessions R120 54 THE EASTERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF SPORTS, RECREATION, ARTS & CULTURE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS JAZZ AT DAKAWA

azz at Dakawa is an annual programme presented by the Eastern JCape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture aimed at showcasing and catapulting emerging talents from the Eastern Cape onto a national stage.

This year’s programme will feature an ensemble from each of the District Municipalities in a showcase that celebrate the partnerships between the groups and the Eastern Cape Audio Visual Centre (ECAVC).

The ensembles are drawn from each of the seven districts of the province. The Eastern Cape Audio Visual Centre will provide technical expertise and assist in promoting the newly established Eastern Cape Recording Label.

The theme for the 2015 Jazz programme at Dakawa is a celebration of 21 years of democracy and 60 years of the Freedom Charter.

DAKAWA COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE SATURDAY 4 JULY 19:00 Alfred Nzo Emsemble SUNDAY 5 JULY 19:00 Joe Gqabi Emsemble MONDAY 6 JULY 19:00 O R Tambo Emsemble TUESDAY 7 JULY 19:00 Chris Hani Emsemble WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 19:00 Amathole Emsemble THURSDAY 9 JULY 19:00 Sarah Baartman Ensemble FRIDAY 10 JULY 19:00 Nelson Mandela Ensemble DURATION 1 Hour TICKETS Free STANDARD BANK 55 JAZZ FESTIVAL (Incorporating the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival) Grahamstown 2015 THURSDAY 2 JULY BOKANI DYER QUINTET CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN JAZZ MEETS SWISS PRECISION

okani Dyer has had a meteoric rise in the jazz world, winning the 2011 Standard Bank BYoung Artist Award at age 25 and garnering invitations to international festivals such as the London Jazz Festival. As part of his extensive 2014 European tour he performed with four gifted representatives of the Swiss jazz scene whom he had met during his residency at the Bird’s Eye Jazz Club in Basel, and the vitality of contemporary South African Jazz meets Swiss precision and musicianship in this outstanding collaboration. Dyer’s music is all-encompassing, embracing his roots as well as the contemporary musical landscape of South Africa.

BOKANI DYER (PIANO) DONAT FISCH (SAX – CH) MATTHIAS SPILLMANN (TRUMPET – CH) STEPHAN KURRMAN (BASS – CH) NORBERT PFAMMATTER (DRUMS – CH)

DSG HALL Thursday 2 July 17:00 R80 / R75 CARLO MOMBELLI & THE STORYTELLERS MANIPULATED BASS AND SOUND DESIGN

isconcertingly beautiful” was the comment on Carlo Mombelli’s playing from The Jazz “DTimes – the world’s leading jazz periodical. The US Bass Player Magazine’s view was that “Avant-garde bass-focused jazz composition has rarely sounded so gorgeous....Once in a while an artist comes along who produces music unlike anything you’ve heard.” Having played sold out concerts over the past year to much critical acclaim, this ensemble features the unique composer/bassist Carlo Mombelli, known in South Africa for his cutting-edge voice-like playing style. He is joined by the incredible voice of Mbuso Khoza, who learnt his music early at the age of five as a herdsman for his father’s cattle in the KwaZulu-Natal mountains, and two Standard Bank Young Artist Award winners – Kyle Shepherd and Kesivan Naidoo.

CARLO MOMBELLI (BASS) MBUSO KHOZA (VOCALS) KYLE SHEPHERD (PIANO) KESIVAN NAIDOO (DRUMS)

DSG HALL Thursday 2 July 19:30 R80 / R75

SUPPORT FUNDING FROM: The Austrian Embassy Brian Meese Dutch Fund of the Performing Arts The French Institute of South Africa Paul Bothner Music ProHelvetia Johannesburg The Royal Netherlands Embassy SAfm SAMRO Spedidam Swedish Arts Council Swedish Jazz Federation Mary Lou Meese Youth Jazz Fund Swiss Arts Council The US Embassy 56 THURSDAY 2 JULY VUMA LEVIN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION EXPLORING ROOTS OF SA JAZZ

orn in South Africa and raised Bduring the unstable years of post-Apartheid South Africa, guitarist Vuma Ian Levin uses his music in an attempt to interrogate conceptions of identity, nation, culture, being and power both globally and in the emergent, post 1994 South Africa. Levin explores various strands of a fantastic international array of VUMA IAN LEVIN (GUITAR) popular music, jazz, western art his classmates that blends the BERNARD VAN ROSSUM (SAX - UK) music and the full array of South drive of the American Jazz greats, XAVI TORRES VINCENTE (PIANO - ES) African musics, celebrating the the sparseness and melancholy MARCO ZENINI (BASS - IT) musical tropes of the historically introspective qualities of the JEROEN BATTERINK (DRUMS - NE) disempowered “African Other”. European musical tradition, the Levin is completing his Master’s accessibility of popular music and SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ degree at the Amsterdam the upbeat nonchalance of South Thursday 2 July 22:00 Conservatory, and joins us with African music. R70 / R65 YURI HONING ACOUSTIC QUARTET UNIQUE, POWERFUL SAX SOUND

ailed as “one of the most creative and fearless saxophonists of the moment” by The HTimes, Yuri Honing is one of Holland’s most important saxophone players. His unique personal style, based on jazz, pop and non-Western musical traditions and his powerful sound, similar to the human voice, amount to a musical revelation. In his extensive discography he has worked, amongst others, with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden and Vince Mendoza. His album ‘Seven’ - recorded with Paul Bley, Gary Peacock and Paul Motion - received the Edison Jazz Award (Dutch Grammy). In 2001 and in 2012 he was awarded the Boy Edgar Prize, the most prestigious jazz prize in the Netherlands. Honing’s new album ‘Desire’ was released at the beginning of 2015, drawing influences from Jazz, Baroque music and Contemporary music. Supported by #cocreateSA , a platform for South African and Dutch counterparts to exchange ideas and innovations for a sustainable future. Join the conversation on Twitter.

YURI HONING (SAX - NE) WOLFERT BREDERODE (PIANO - NE) GULLI GUDMUNDSSON (BASS - IS) JOOST LIJBAART (DRUMS - NE)

DSG HALL Thursday 2 July 22:00 R80 / R75 JAZZ JAM Catch professional and student musicians letting off steam and butting musical heads late into the night. SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ Thursday 2 July 23:30 R50 FRIDAY 3 JULY 57 SCHOOL/YOUTH BANDS I

he Delft Big Band was launched in 2008 as an initiative to get the youth off the gang-infested streets of the Cape Flats, and this band T(ranging in age from 18 to 28) has succeeded beyond expectations, with recent tours to Sweden, France and the UK and a growing reputation. Sharing the bill with them is one of the leading school bands in the country – the Rondebosch Big Band (Cape Town).

DSG AUDITORIUM Friday 3 July 12:00 R40 / R35 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz: NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI: LISTENING TO THE GROUND PAYING HOMAGE TO THE MUSICAL ANCESTORS ianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini grew up in uMgungundlovu near PPietermaritzburg surrounded by music from across the cultural spectrum and in a family that treated music as a special healing gift. He studied at the then Natal Technikon (now UKZN) before embarking on a professional music career that led to stints in the bands of Zim Ngqawana, Simphiwe Dana, Carlo Mombelli, Feya Faku and Themba Mkhize and performances in Europe, Britain and the US. In African tradition it is believed that people don’t die but multiply; after ‘Death’ they continue to live as aphanzi, the ancestors, or the ones from the ground. Thus, in this performance he pays homage to those musical legends who have contributed to the great legacy and history of South African Jazz, paying tribute to them and thanking them for their protection and guidance.

NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI (PIANO) NOMAGUGU MAKHATHINI (VOCALS) KARL-MARTIN ALMQVIST (SAX - SE) FEYA FAKU (TRUMPET) MARTIN SJÖSTEDT (BASS - SE) AYANDA SIKADE (DRUMS)

DSG HALL Friday 3 July 17:00 R80 / R75 PETER DAHLGREN TROMBONE AT ITS BEST

wedish trombonist Peter Dahlgren is regarded as one of the strongest young Smodern jazz voices in Europe, displaying a technical ease and clear sound on one of the more complex of the jazz instruments. At an early age he moved to Copenhagen where he played with many of the great names in jazz, including Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Toots Thielemans, Maria Schneider, Randy Brecker, Chris Potter, Carla Bley and Paquito D’Rivera, and toured the USA, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, China, and most of Europe. In 2004, he starred in the EBU Jazz Orchestra, an international big band consisting of selected musicians from all over Europe and he has been a member of the famous Norrbotten Big Band since 1997. Tonight he leads a fascinating collaboration between European and South African musicians.

PETER DAHLGREN (TROMBONE - SE) FREDRIK LINDBORG (SAX - SE) MARK FRANSMAN (PIANO) GULLI GUDMUNDSSON (BASS - IS) NORBERT PFAMMATTER (CH)

DSG AUDITORIUM Friday 3 July 19:00 R70 / R65 58 FRIDAY 3 JULY LIONEL LOUEKE IN CONCERT GUITAR VIRTUOSO

ailed as a “gentle virtuoso” by , West African guitarist HLionel Loueke was inspired by his brother, who taught him how to play during his late teenage years. Studies at the Ivory Coast’s National Institute of Arts, Paris’ American School of More Than Music, Berklee College of Music and the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz led Loueke to appearances on a series of high-profile recordings with artists such as Esperanza Spalding, Avishai Cohen, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden and Terence Blanchard. Praised by his mentor, Herbie Hancock, as “a musical painter” Loueke combines harmonic complexity, soaring melody, a deep knowledge of African folk forms, and conventional and extended guitar techniques to create a warm and evocative sound of his own. His own albums with Blue Note Records have been received with high critical acclaim. Presented with the support of the US Embassy.

LIONEL LOUEKE (GUITAR – BENIN/US) CONCORD NKABINDE (BASS – GUEST)

DSG HALL Friday 3 July 19:30 R130 / R120 YURI HONING ACOUSTIC QUARTET SEE THURSDAY 2 JULY 22:00

YURI HONING (SAX - NE) WOLFERT BREDERODE (PIANO - NE) GULLI GUDMUNDSSON (BASS - IS) JOOST LIJBAART (DRUMS - NE)

DSG AUDITORIUM Friday 3 July 21:30 R70 / R65

JOHAN HÖRLÉN QUARTET IN THE BOP TRADITION

ohan Hörlén is perhaps the best jazz alto saxophonist in Sweden, with his own Jpersonal sound and fantastic technique. He is one of the longest-standing members of the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra and is now also employed as lead alto by the famous WDR Radio Big Band in Cologne, Germany. He is a well- established band leader in his own right and a long-time visitor to Grahamstown. He collaborates tonight with drummer/pianist Jukkis Uotila - the “internationally most respected Finnish jazz artist ever”, as Cultural minister Paavo Arhinmäki said in his speech when he awarded Jukkis Finland’s prestigious State Prize for Music in 2011.

JOHAN HÖRLÉN (SAX - SE) JUKKIS UOTILA (PIANO - FI) ROMY BRAUTESETH (BASS) KESIVAN NAIDOO (DRUMS)

SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ Friday 3 July 22:00 R70 / R65 FRIDAY 3 JULY 59

CHARLIER/SOURISSE MULTIQUARIUM QUARTET FRENCH EXPLORATION OF RHYTHM AND MELODY

arisian drummer André Charlier and pianist/organist Benoit PSourisse have had a long-standing career playing together and at the heart of their sound is a rhythmic-melodic equation. Their jazz makes one think of Louis Lozowick’s lithographs, evoking a kind of vertical urbanity - shadows and light playing off skyscrapers. Like a fantastical Lego structure, their sound multiplies along convergence lines, superimpositions and dizzying precipices. Over more than twenty years and a thousand concerts, Charlier and Sourisse have deepened their musical relationship and their friendship, which are both of an exceptional quality and longevity. Together they have played alongside Didier Lockwood, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Kenny Garrett, John MacLaughlin, Toots Thielmans and many more.

ANDRE CHARLIER (DRUMS - FR) BENOÎT SOURISSE (PIANO - FR) STÉPHANE GUILLAUME (SAX - FR) JEAN-MICHEL CHARBONNEL (BASS - FR)

DSG HALL Friday 3 July 22:00 R80 / R75 THANDI NTULI RISING PIANO STAR

ianist Thandi Ntuli is making waves in the contemporary South African jazz Pscene and this captivating, committed and professional young pianist is rapidly earning the admiration of the industry’s most respected musos. Ntuli has shared the stage with the likes of Judith Sephuma, the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, Jimmy Dludlu and Thandiswa Mazwai and has performed on various local and international stages including the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, and the Calabar International Jazz Festival. She recently returned from a national tour promoting her solo album, The Offering, which has received high accolades.

THANDI NTULI (PIANO) SISONKE XONTI (SAX) JUSTIN BELLAIRS (SAX) NILS JANSSON (TRUMPET - SE) KEENAN AHRENDS (GUITAR) BENJAMIN JEPHTA (BASS) SPHELELO MAZIBUKO (DRUMS)

DSG AUDITORIUM Friday 3 July 23:30 R70 / R65 JAZZ JAM Catch professional and student musicians letting off steam and butting musical heads late into the night. SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ Friday 3 July 23:30 R50 60 SATURDAY 4 JULY SCHOOL/YOUTH BANDS II BOKANI DYER QUINTET ig Band jazz is thriving in high schools and universities around SEE THURSDAY 2 JULY 17:00 Bthe country, as seen with these standard Big Bands from SACS (Cape Town) and Stirling (East London). BOKANI DYER (PIANO) DONAT FISCH (SAX – CH) DSG AUDITORIUM MATTHIAS SPILLMANN (TRUMPET – CH) Saturday 4 July 12:00 STEPHAN KURRMAN (BASS – CH) R40 NORBERT PFAMMATTER (DRUMS – CH)

DSG HALL Saturday 4 July 17:00 R80 / R75

CHI-PIN & KAI-YA'S JAZZ

FROM CLASSICAL TO JAZZ iolinist Chi-pin Hsieh and pianist Kai-ya Chang are Taiwanese Vmusicians who grew up with Classical and Pop music, only discovering Jazz well into their professional music careers. The cathartic beauty and freedom of jazz sparked a new direction for them and they both completed master’s degrees in the Jazz Department of the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, Belgium, returning to Taiwan in 2002 as professional Jazz musicians and NOMFUNDO XALUVA active Jazz educators and founding the Taipei International Summer BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND Jazz Academy & Festival in 2004. They travel the world, linking with like-minded musicians and educators and sharing their love of Jazz. omfundo Xaluva’s credentials speak for themselves - having Ngraduated with a Masters Degree in Jazz Vocal Studies (with CHI-PIN HSIEH (VIOLIN - TW) KAI-YA CHANG (PIANO - TW) Distinction) from UCT, this inspiring young jazz artist has performed SHAUN JOHANNES (BASS) JEROEN BATTERINK (DRUMS - NE) at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival and Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Honours Ceremony and has also shared the stage DSG AUDITORIUM with and Dianne Reeves. She has spent time Saturday 4 July 19:00 in Norway and was invited as Artist in Residence at the University R70 / R65 of Southern California. Her recently-released debut album Kusile won the title of “Best Urban Jazz Album” at the Metro FM Awards. And to top it all off she is a local product - she was Head Girl of STOCKHOLM JAZZ ORCHESTRA Victoria Girls High School in Grahamstown! This year she presents an amalgamation of material that both celebrates the rich existing WORLD-CLASS BIG BAND heritage of the African Jazz Songbook and the emergence of a he Stockholm Jazz Orchestra is one of the world’s premier new, more contemporary catalogue of compositions inherently Tcontemporary Big Bands and this year celebrates 30 years of influenced by an old tradition. swinging Big Band music, having performed all over the world and in legendary jazz venues like Ronnie Scott’s and the Village NOMFUNDO XALUVA (VOCALS) BERNARD VAN ROSSUM (SAX - UK) Vanguard . Every member of the band is a jazz soloist with their VUMA IAN LEVIN (GUITAR) BOKANI DYER (PIANO) own career and band and, on the occasions they get together as ROMY BRAUTESETH (BASS) JOOST LIJBAART (DRUMS - NE) the SJO, their focus is on demanding ensemble playing and lyrical improvisation. We are particularly pleased to have this world-class DSG AUDITORIUM ensemble return to Grahamstown – they made their first appearance Saturday 4 July 21:30 on this stage exactly ten years ago, and their ongoing collaborations R70 / R65 with and influence on South African musicians have transformed our country’s jazz landscape over the past decade.

Sax: JOHAN HÖRLÉN (SE), JOHAN CHRISTOFERSSON (SE), ROBERT NORDMARK (SE), KARL-MARTIN ALMQVIST (SE), FREDRIK LINDBORG (SE); Trumpet: FREDRIK NOREN (MUSICAL DIRECTOR - SE), TOBIAS WIKLUND (SE), GUSTAVO BERGALLI (AR), NILS JANSSON (SE); Trombone: BERTIL STRANDBERG (SE), PETER DAHLGREN (SE), KASPERI SARIKOSKI (FI), ANDERS WIBORG (SE); Guitar: OLA BENGTSON (SE); Piano: DANIEL TILLING (SE); Bass: MARTIN SJÖSTEDT (SE); Drums: JUKKIS UOTILA (FI)

DSG HALL

Saturday 4 July 19:30 R130 / R120 SATURDAY 4 JULY 61 THE BJAERV ENCOUNTERS TENOR MADNESS he big sound of the tenor saxophone is central to the history of TJazz and there is a long tradition of setting up tenors together, from the collaborations of John Coltrane & Hank Mobley to Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins to the ultimate sax summit of Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman (and Joe Lovano). Tonight Karl-Martin Almqvist, one of Europe’s best and most in-demand tenor sax soloists (now permanently employed by the Danish Radio Big Band) shares the stage with Robert Nordmark, his SJO compatriot, with a killer rhythm section. Getting a chance to guest with these two Swedish tenors with huge sounds and massive experience is the rapidly-improving young South African tenor, Sisonke Xonti.

KARL-MARTIN ALMQVIST (SAX - SE) ROBERT NORDMARK (SAX - SE) SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ SISONKE XONTI (SAX) NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI (PIANO) Saturday 4 July 22:00 MARTIN SJÖSTEDT (BASS - SE) KESIVAN NAIDOO (DRUMS) R70 / R65 LIONEL LOUEKE IN COLLABORATION SA COLLABORATION WITH WORLD-CLASS GUITARIST ittle more needs be said about the technical virtuosity and musical diversity Lof world-class guitarist Lionel Loueke than to list some of the musicians who have called him to work with them over the past decade: Terrence Blanchard, Herbie Hancock, , Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson, Wayne Shorter, Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, Charlie Haden, Richard Bona, Nathan East, Sting, Brian Blade, John Patitucci, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kenny Garrett, Roy Hargrove, Santana and Gretchen Parlato. Tonight he performs in collaboration with some of the top musicians our country has to offer.

LIONEL LOUEKE (GUITAR – BEN/US) SIYA MAKUZENI (VOCALS) MARCUS WYATT (TRUMPET) SHANE COOPER (BASS) AYANDA SIKADE (DRUMS)

DSG HALL Saturday 4 July 22:00 R130 / R120 AMANDLA FREEDOM ENSEMBLE TRUMPET ENERGY FIZZ

andla Mlangeni’s Amandla quintet “wraps elliptical melodies in three-part Mhorn harmonies, rich with impasto, swinging like broken chandeliers,” said the Jazz Times recently. “The Soweto native’s compositions pull from church hymns; traditional rituals learned from his uncle, who was a sangoma, or healer; American postbop; the Ornette Coleman Quartet; and the bounding, interwoven cycles of Eastern Cape music.” This exuberant young jazz talent fizzes with energy and, in the true tradition of jazz collaboration, is joined in Grahamstown by the Head of the Jazz School at the Stockholm Conservatory, guitarist Ola Bengtsson. MANDLA MLANGENI (TRUMPET) NHLANHLA MAHLANGU (SAX) JAZZ JAM OSCAR RACHABANE (SAX) ARIEL ZAMONSKY (BASS) TUMI MOGOROSI (DRUMS) OLA BENGTSSON (GUITAR - SE) Catch professional and student musicians letting off steam and butting musical heads late into the night. DSG AUDITORIUM SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ Saturday 4 July 23:30 Saturday 4 July 23:30 R70 / R65 R50 62 SUNDAY 5 JULY SCHOOL/YOUTH BANDS III

e feature the UKZN Storytellers who performed in Virginia, US, and convey in their music the complex cultural identity of living Win Durban. Second up is Thundercat (Sweden), winners of the Swedish Jazz Federation Youth Competition 2014 and featuring Sebastian Jonsson (sax), Anton Forsberg (guitar), Oliver Belvelin (bass) and Jonas Bäckman (drums) in a group regarded as represtenting the future of Swedish Jazz. .

DSG AUDITORIUM Sunday 5 July 12:00 R40 / R35 SIYA MAKUZENI VOCAL ARTISTRY AND EXPLORATION

iya Makuzeni has been honing her vocal and trombone artistry for many Syears with A-list South African musicians such as Marcus Wyatt, McCoy Mrubata, Carlo Mombelli, Feya Faku, Khaya Mahlangu, Sibongile Khumalo and many more, as well as establishing her own project, Ippyfüz. She is known for her unique experimental, edgy, but pure intonation, using electronics to enhance and manipulate her voice. She has performed in some of the biggest jazz events around the world from the Cape Town International Jazz Festival to the Stockholm Jazz Festival to Paris and Vienna. She has been featured on many recordings, such as in her work in Germany with Themba Mkhize and the SWR Big Band, and in Italy where she contributed to the soundtrack of Forse Dio è Malato (Maybe God is Ill) with the Oscar-winning company CAM Scores. Tonight she collaborates with hip young South Africans and a legendary Swiss saxophonist.

SIYA MAKUZENI (VOCALS/TROMBONE) DONAT FISCH (SAX - CH) SAKHILE SIMANI (TRUMPET) THANDI NTULI (PIANO) ROMY BRAUTESETH (BASS) AYANDA SIKADE (DRUMS)

DSG HALL Sunday 5 July 17:00 R80 / R75

BENJAMIN JEPHTA EXCITING YOUNG BASSIST AND COMPOSER

lthough only 22, bassist and composer Benjamin Jephta is already making Aa name for himself as a jazz double bass and electric bass player. Aside from performing in venues and festivals locally since the age of 16, Jephta has also performed with various orchestras and small ensembles in France, Sweden, Italy, China and Tanzania. Here he presents material from his critically-acclaimed debut album, Homecoming, which gives the listener a musical biography of his life, welcoming them into his musical home.

BENJAMIN JEPHTA (BASS) SISONKE XONTI (SAX) MARCUS WYATT (TRUMPET) KYLE SHEPHERD (PIANO) SPHELELO MAZIBUKO (DRUMS)

DSG AUDITORIUM Sunday 5 July 19:00 R70 / R65 SUNDAY 5 JULY 63 STOCKHOLM JAZZ ORCHESTRA plays the music of Ann-Sofi Söderqvist SWEDEN’S ANSWER TO MARIA SCHNEIDER

or three decades the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra has collaborated Fwith the world’s leading musicians and composers, recording and performing with the likes of Bob Mintzer, Maria Schneider, Bob Brookmeyer, Mel Lewis, Hermeto Pasqual, Joe Lovano and Kenny Werner amongst many others. Tonight they play the music of Sweden’s answer to Maria Schneider – Ann-Sofi Söderqvist, Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and extraordinary Big Band composer and arranger.

Sax: JOHAN HÖRLÉN (SE), JOHAN CHRISTOFERSSON (SE), ROBERT NORDMARK (SE), KARL-MARTIN ALMQVIST (SE), FREDRIK LINDBORG (SE); TRUMPET: FREDRIK NOREN (SE), TOBIAS WIKLUND (SE), GUSTAVO BERGALLI (AR), NILS JANSSON (SE); Trombone: BERTIL STRANDBERG (SE), PETER DAHLGREN (SE), KASPERI SARIKOSKI (FI), ANDERS WIBORG (SE); Guitar: OLA BENGTSON (SE); Piano: DANIEL TILLING (SE); Bass: MARTIN SJÖSTEDT (SE); Drums: JUKKIS UOTILA (FI); Vocals: LENA SWANBERG (SE) Conductor/Composer/Arranger: ANN-SOFI SÖDERQVIST (SE);

VUMA LEVIN DSG HALL SEE THURSDAY 2 JULY 22:00 Sunday 5 July 19:30 R130 / R120

VUMA IAN LEVIN (GUITAR) BERNARD VAN ROSSUM (SAX - UK) CHARLIER/SOURISSE XAVI TORRES VINCENTE (PIANO - ES) MARCO ZENINI (BASS - IT) MULTIQUARIUM QUARTET JEROEN BATTERINK (DRUMS - NE) SEE FRIDAY 3 JULY 22:00

DSG AUDITORIUM SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ Sunday 5 July 21:30 Sunday 5 July 22:00 R70 / R65 R70 / R65 KESIVAN & THE LIGHTS FRESH FROM CARNEGIE HALL

rummer Kesivan Naidoo has followed an incredible jazz career – selection to Dthe Standard Bank National Schools Band as a teenager in 1995 followed by the National Youth Band when he moved to university to study Jazz; a SAMRO international scholarship to study in India; the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in 2009. And last year, he received an invitation from New York’s most famous music venue – converted to Jazz after Benny Goodman’s triumph there in 1938 - to perform. So Kesivan & the Lights played in Carnegie Hall last year, to a standing ovation nogal! Kesivan reprises the performance in Grahamstown with the addition of two Swedish guests who were central to his original 2009 Lights band.

KESIVAN NAIDOO (DRUMS) JUSTIN BELLAIRS (SAX) FEYA FAKU (TRUMPET) REZA KHOTA (GUITAR) KYLE SHEPHERD (PIANO) SHANE COOPER (BASS) JOHAN HÖRLÉN (SAX - SE) KARL-MARTIN ALMQVIST (SAX - SE)

DSG HALL Sunday 5 July 22:00 R80 / R75 JAZZ JAM Catch professional and student musicians letting off steam and butting musical heads late into the night. SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ Sunday 5 July 23:30 R50 64 MONDAY 6 JULY

NATIONAL SCHOOLS STANDARD BANK B BAND + SCHOOLS NATIONAL SCHOOLS’ ENSEMBLE BIG BAND YOUTH JAZZ CHOIRS

There is such stiff competition for places The Standard Bank National Schools’ Big + VOCAL SOLOISTS in the National Bands that we now provide Band consists of the top young school jazz opportunities for those who just missed musicians in the country. Under the musical A celebration of school and university jazz selection – a National B Band. Drawn from direction of Marc de Kock – experienced choirs and vocal soloists from around the around the country and with a selection of jazz saxophonist and big band leader at country, supported by a professional rhythm guest conductors, this band is guaranteed Rondebosch Boys High School – the band section. to sparkle with enthusiasm and creativity. performs material worked on over the five days of the Standard Bank National Youth DSG AUDITORIUM DSG AUDITORIUM Jazz Festival. Monday 6 July 19:00 Monday 6 July 12:00 R40 / R35 R40 / R35 DSG HALL Monday 6 July 17:00 R40 / R35

DAVID HELBOCK TRIO AUSTRIA’S JAZZ FUTURE

rom the little Austrian village of Koblach comes pianist David Helbock, Fdescribed by Roland Spiegel of Bavarian Radio as “one of the most exciting players of the young European jazz scene”. His trio has toured the US, Australia, Mexico, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, , Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and all over Europe and he has received two awards and the audience prize at the world’s biggest jazz piano solo competition - Montreux Jazz Festival – as well as Austria’s most important prize - the “Outstanding Artist Award” – in 2011. One of his works is a “One-Year Compositional Project” where he wrote a new piece every day for a whole year.

DAVID HELBOCK (PIANO - AT) RAPHAEL PREUSCHL (BASS UKULELE – AT) STANDARD BANK HERBERT PIRKER (DRUMS - AT) NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ BAND

DSG HALL The Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band Monday 6 July 19:30 presents a selection of the top young jazz musicians R80 / R75 in the country between the ages of 19 and 25 years. This year the band is under the musical direction of legendary South African bassist, Concord Nkabinde.

DSG HALL Monday 6 July 22:00 R40 / R35 TUESDAY 7 JULY 65

DAVE REYNOLDS & POPS MOHAMED WORLD MUSIC, CARIBBEAN SOUL AND SOUTH AFRICAN JAZZ

outh Africa is undoubtedly a country of cultural diversity, suitably represented by the unique collaboration between Dave Reynolds on Ssteelpan and Pops Mohamed on African percussion, mixing World Music, Caribbean soul and South African Jazz with an underpinning of African traditional instruments. Pops Mohamed is South Africa’s leading indigenous-contemporary-crossover artist, playing kora (African harp), mbira (thumb piano), Khoisan Bow and various percussion effects. He has released 37 albums in his career, won awards such as the ACT Lifetime Achiever, recorded and made movies with the Khoisan people in the Kalahari, and toured globally with the likes of Andreas Vollenweider and Baaba Maal. Dave Reynolds is South Africa’s leading steelpan player, a SAMRO Award-winning composer and acoustic guitarist. He’s performed and recorded all over the world with Andy Narell, , Paul Hanmer, the late Gito Baloi, Tony Cox and McCoy Mrubata, to name a few.

DAVE REYNOLDS (STEELPAN) POPS MOHAMED (AFRICAN PERCUSSION) LOUIS MHLANGA (GUITAR) SYLVAIN BALOUBETA (BASS - CO) FRANK PACO (DRUMS - MZ)

DSG HALL Tuesday 7 July 17:00 R80 / R75 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz: NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI – TRIBUTE HIP YOUNG PIANIST

duduzo Makhathini, Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz 2015, regards music Nas a pathway to healing and the musician as translator and conduit of this healing process. One of the biggest influences on his musical development was the time spent with jazz legend Bheki Mseleku, who shared with him his view of spirituality and how it connects with what we play and the people we become. Tonight this SAMA award nominee explores his musical roots in the company of some of the leading young proponents of Jazz in South Africa.

NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI (PIANO) MARK FRANSMAN (SAX) JUSTIN BELLAIRS (SAX) SAKHILE SIMANI (TRUMPET) ROMY BRAUTESETH (BASS) KESIVAN NAIDOO (DRUMS)

DSG HALL Tuesday 7 July 19:30 R80 / R75 66 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY

DAVE REYNOLDS & POPS MOHAMED SEE TUESDAY 7 JULY 17:00 BEATENBERG DSG HALL 15 WEEKS AT #1 ON SA RADIO Wednesday 8 July 17:00 R80 / R75 eatenberg raced to fame with their chart-topping single ‘Pluto (Remember BYou)’, a collaboration with renowned house producer DJ Clock and the single was the #1 most popular song on South African radio for over 15 consecutive weeks in 2014. Despite being in love with and schooled in ‘serious music’ like Beethoven, Debussy and John Coltrane, (Ross and Matthew studied music together at the University of Cape Town) Beatenberg is adamant that they are heard as ‘pop music’, which they believe is actually quite serious too. Songwriter Matthew Field says: ‘It’s about emotions, images and fleeting senses of things: the mad stuff that everyone feels and almost understands.’ It is a particular pleasure to welcome Matthew back to Grahamstown – last time he featured on the Jazz programme was as a young member of the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band.

MATTHEW FIELD (VOCALS, GUITAR) ROSS DORKIN (BASS) ROBIN BRINK (DRUMS)

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT Wednesday 8 July 19:00 R100 / R90

LINDIWE MAXOLO A BEAUTIFUL VOICE SINGS STANDARDS

ocalist Lindiwe Maxolo received an Honours Vdegree in Jazz Music (cum laude) from the University of Cape Town in 2005 and she has worked with a range of South African musicians including Hugh Masekela, Sibongile Ngoma and Themba Mkhize and has performed in Greece, Dubai, Portugal and the US as well as the leading South African Jazz festivals. The Lindiwe Maxolo Quintet performs songs from her debut album titled “Time”, which includes a few South African Jazz standards as well as some LATE-NIGHT BLUES WITH traditional Jazz Standards. THE BOULEVARD BLUES BAND

LINDIWE MAXOLO (VOCALS) he Boulevard Blues Band has been rocking music lovers at venues and STHEMBISO BHENGU (TRUMPET) Tfestivals in South Africa for over a decade, liberating their fans with nourishing, JACOB THOMO (PIANO) soulful Blues and Rock. Inspired by Dr John Mostert - “Doctor of the Blues” - the THEMBINKOSI MAVIMBELA (BASS) band plays Blues in its various forms with a touch of Rock, Jazz, Soul and Funk as SPHELELO MAZIBUKO (DRUMS) well as some tasteful original compositions.

SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ Wednesday 8 July 22:00 Wednesday 8 July 23:30 R70 / R65 R70 / R65 THURSDAY 9 JULY 67

LINDIWE MAXOLO SEE WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 22:00

DSG HALL Thursday 9 July 17:00 R80 / R75 AURIOL HAYS THE SONGBIRD TELLS A STORY

resenting material from her highly-acclaimed first three albums, South African PMusic Awards nominee Auriol Hays brings her collection of beautifully crafted jazz, soul and pop songs to life in Grahamstown. Hays’ reputation as a dynamic live performer goes before her, be it at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, opening with the Gauteng Big Band at the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, at the Zoo Lake Music Festival, or at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival. “A great many people have offered me sanctuary over the past few years,” the songbird points out. “These new compositions come from that safe place, where each enjoyed a measure of reflection as I unpacked many of these wonderful people’s stories in song”.

AURIOL HAYS (VOCALS) ANGELO SYSTER (GUITAR) SOUTH AFRICAN YVAN POTTS (KEYBOARD) ANDREW WEBB (BASS) JAZZ CLASSICS JP CROUCH (DRUMS) DSG HALL Relax in the Standard Bank Jazz & Blues Cafe while Thursday 9 July 19:30 a band of top Eastern Cape musicians plays a set R80 / R75 of classic South African Jazz tunes as well as some innovative original compositions. LATE-NIGHT BLUES WITH THE SAKHILE SIMANI (TRUMPET) LULAMA GAWULANA (GUITAR) DONNÉ DOWLMAN (BASS) BOULEVARD BLUES BAND SISA SOPAZI (DRUMS) SEE WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 23:30

SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ Thursday 9 July 22:00 Thursday 9 July 23:30 R70 / R65 R70 / R65 68 FRIDAY 10 JULY OLIVER MTUKUDZI ZIMBABWE’S BIGGEST MUSICAL EXPORT orld-acclaimed Zimbabwean singer/guitarist Oliver Mtukudzi, or “Tuku” to his fans, has Whad a career that has spanned more than thirty-five years and 50 original albums (nearly all of them best-sellers) and which has seen him performing on leading stages on five continents. His music is truly Southern African in its style, incorporating traditional mbira patterns, popular Zimbabwean “Jiti” style, mbaqanga inflections and traditional Korekore drumming patterns, but he has conflated and modernised them in such a way that it has become a music genre of its own – “Tuku Music”. His skill in harnessing diverse traditional African musical styles, modern African dance trends, but still weaving them through with the thread of jazz improvisation has seen him straddle the limiting divides of “World Music” and “Jazz”. On stage Tuku’s powerful vocal presence and transfixing musical energy has brought him thousands of fans, and he is known also for his social conscience and straight-talking lyrics.

OLIVER MTUKUDZI (VOCALS, GUITAR), ALICE MURINGAYI (VOCALS), PRICCILA SHUMBA (VOCALS), ENOCK PIRIRO (BASS) AND TENDAI SAMSON MATAURE (DRUMS).

DSG HALL Friday 10 July 17:00 R130 / R120 RAY PHIRI SOUTH AFRICAN GUITAR LEGEND

ay Phiri has been a central player in the South African music industry for decades, earning Rhimself the Order of Ikhamanga (Silver) from the President to recognise his musical contribution in the struggle against apartheid. His career – as solo artist and with his platinum- winning bands like Stimela - has seen him become a household name in South African jazz circles. After collaborating with Paul Simon on both his Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints albums Phiri continues to be an artist of international stature. Today he is active in education and cultural development work, remains a regular featured artist in the international Graceland tours and performs with his unit “Ray Phiri & Friends”.

BAND - TO BE CONFIRMED

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT Friday 10 July 19:00 R130 / R120 DON LAKA TAKING THE SCARY OUT OF JAZZ

ianist Don Laka needs no introduction to South African audiences and has Pbeen a performer, composer and producer for nearly four decades, in that time building the Kwaai-Jazz brand - an eclectic musical fusion of Classical, Traditional, Modern and Jazz. He has, as he says, “taken the ‘scary’ out of jazz and made it accessible to everyone”. He has six award-winning albums under his belt, most of them achieving gold or platinum sales status. He was a member of Sakhile and Sankomota and an arranger for Sibongile Khumalo and Hugh Masekela, and has collaborated with musicians from across the jazz and Afro-Pop spectrum, creating a strong following throughout South Africa and Europe.

BAND - TO BE CONFIRMED

DSG HALL Friday 10 July 21:00 R130 / R120 FRIDAY 10 JULY 69

MI CASA EVERYONE’S FAVOURITE URBAN HOUSE BAND

ince their inception in 2011 MiCasa has taken South African audiences by storm. A groovy mix of urban house and jazz influenced the Sband’s first album, Micasa Music, which went gold and won several South Africa Music Awards in 2012, as well as nominations for “Best Dance Album”, “Album of the Year”, “Group of the Year”, “Newcomer of the Year”, and “Record Of The Year”! Their second album in 2013, Su Casa, was met with equal success. Consisting of three core members, this young group hails from Johannesburg and Port Alfred and continues to make waves across the South African electronic dance music scene.

J’SOMETHING (VOCAL) MO-T (TRUMPET) DR DUDA (PRODUCER & KEYBOARD) WITH KABELO SELEKE (SAX) CARLO JOOSTE (BASS) THOMAS AKURU (PERCUSSION)

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT Friday 10 July 22:00 R130 / R120 AURIOL HAYS LATE-NIGHT BLUES WITH THE SEE THURSDAY 9 JULY 19:30 BOULEVARD BLUES BAND SEE WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 23:30 SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ Friday 10 July 22:00 SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ R70 / R65 Friday 10 July 23:30 R70 / R65 70 SATURDAY 11 JULY DON LAKA SEE FRIDAY 10 JULY 21:00

DSG HALL Saturday 11 July 12:00 R130 / R120

KUNLE AYO NIGERIAN GUITARIST IN THE STYLE OF GEORGE BENSON

ulti-Award winning Nigerian Jazz guitarist Kunle Ayo is increasingly one Mof Africa’s most celebrated guitarists. A dazzling live performer, Ayo has 6 albums to his name and leaves his fans inspired and full of positive energy after every performance. As a sought-after performer Ayo has participated in a number of jazz festivals, notably the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival in Johannesburg, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, the Calabar Jazz Festival in Nigeria, the Harare International Festival of Arts in Zimbabwe, and the Go-Jazz Festival in London.

BAND - TO BE CONFIRMED

DSG HALL Saturday 11 July 17:00 R100 / R90 OLIVER MTUKUDZI SEE FRIDAY 10 JULY 17:00

THANDISWA DSG HALL Saturday 11 July 21:00 R130 / R120 MAZWAI LATE-NIGHT DOUBLE PLATINUM CONTEMPORARY SINGER SOUTH AFRICAN BLUES WITH THE handiswa Mazwai began her career in 1998 JAZZ CLASSICS BOULEVARD Twith Bongo Maffin, one of the pioneering bands SEE THURSDAY 9 JULY 22:00 of Kwaito, and after six award-winning albums BLUES BAND she ventured into a solo career. Her first project – SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ SEE WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 23:30 ‘Zabalaza’ (2004) – reached double platinum status Saturday 11 July 22:00 and won numerous awards including a Kora award R70 / R65 SB JAZZ & BLUES CAFÉ for Best African Female Artist and four South African Saturday 11 July 23:30 Music Awards. Her subsequent albums have gone on R70 / R65 to further cement her status as one of South Africa’s most influential musicians, with her music defying categorization and reflecting elements of African For more information check Traditional, Jazz, Afrosoul and House. The Guardian recently called her “South Africa’s finest female www.standardbankarts.co.za or www.youthjazz.co.za contemporary singer”. Thandiswa has performed all over the world at venues including the FIFA 2010 Produced by Eastern Cape Jazz Promotions World Cup Opening Ceremony, the Apollo Theatre, Womex, The Cannes Film Festival, BBC World Music Festival Director Alan Webster Awards and several Mandela 46664 concerts. Festival Manager Donné Dowlman GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT Production Manager Matthew Boon Saturday 11 July 19:00 Chief Sound Engineer Les van der Veen R130 / R120 Administration Janet Webster, Dean Flanagan, Donovan Abrey 71

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS 2015 STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST CHRISTIAAN OLWAGEN’S ADAPTATION OF

ADAPTATION / DIRECTOR: Christiaan Olwagen SOUND/MUSIC: A DOLL’S HOUSE Charl-Johan Lingenfelder LIGHTING DESIGN: Wolf Britz BY HENRIK IBSEN COSTUMES: Birrie Le Roux CHOREOGRAPHY: ora Helmer seems to have it all: a successful Ina Wichterich Nhusband, a loving family and a beautiful home. But the arrival of an unexpected visitor threatens to expose a secret and unravel her seemingly perfect life. CAST: NORA HELMER There is something timeless about Jennifer Steyn Henrik Ibsen’s complex 19th century TORVALD HELMER characters because he writes about Martin le Maitre universal anxieties that resonate even in a contemporary society in the most visceral DR. RANK way. Dawid Minnaar

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House has been KRISTINE LINDE staged throughout the world. There are few Anthea Thompson plays that have had a similar impact globally NILS KROGSTAD on social norms and conditions. There are few Rob van Vuuren play characters worldwide that can claim an equivalent importance as the role of Nora Helmer.

Ever since A Doll’s House premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen it has raised debate and controversy, both because of its splendid dramatic structure and because of its broad ideological impact. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, 136 years later, is still one of the world’s most performed plays. A psychological thriller about partnership and power, marriage and money, love and lies. And the A post-performance inequality at the heart of the modern discussion with the family. director and cast, moderated by an It is hard to ignore the play’s strong arts journalist from feminist resonances but perhaps one of the most radical City Press, will take aspects of A Doll’s House is that it presents a woman’s place after the 18:00 dilemma as a human dilemma, relevant to both sexes, performance on when so often women’s stories are treated as a special Friday 10 July. See the subject of concern only to women. Think!Fest Programme for more details about Circumstances may have changed since Ibsen’s day, post-performance but people have not: a wilful doll-wife who beguiles her discussions. man into giving her what she wants, and her doting, but condescending husband, who sees her as an accessory. In giving A Doll’s House a contemporary setting, Christian Olwagen makes Ibsen’s Nora controversial again and allows us to ponder why A Doll’s House became a classic in the first place.

RHODES THEATRE FRIDAY 10 JULY 18:00 SATURDAY 11 JULY 14:00 & 18:00 SUNDAY 12 JULY 14:00 & 18:00 DURATION 2hrs (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 16 TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 72 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS A SEASON OF PIETER-DIRK UYS

ith more than 7 000 solo Truth and Reconciliation Award in 2001. He International Film Festival, and in 2012 he Wperformances presented on stages has received honorary degrees from Rhodes received both the FW de Klerk Goodwill across South Africa and internationally; and University (D.Litt.Hon. 1997), the University Award and the German-Africa Award. His with more than 20 plays to his credit, Pieter- of Cape Town (D.Litt.Hon. 2003), the performance of Foreign Aids at La Mama Dirk Uys is undoubtedly South Africa’s most University of the Western Cape (D.Edu.Hon. received the Obie Award in New York legendary performing arts satirist. 2003), the University of the Witwatersrand in 2004. (D.Litt.Hon. 2004) and University of Kwazulu From the moment that he set foot on the Natal (Doctor of Literature honoris causa As Pieter-Dirk Uys turns 70 this year, the South African stage, his reputation as a 2014). National Arts Festival celebrates his lifelong fearless satirist was firmly rooted. He has contribution to enrich South Africa’s artistic created hilariously outrageous characters Pieter-Dirk Uys’s celebrated alter-ego, Evita legacy by announcing him as the inaugural that have stirred the conscience of the Bezuidenhout was awarded the Living Featured Arts Icon of the Year. His Featured nation. His astute satire has exposed the Legacy 2000 Award in San Diego, USA. In Icon programme will showcase two world bones of apartheid dinosaurs. 2011 Uys was honoured with a lifetime premieres, African Times and The Echo of achievement Teddy award at the Berlin a Noise as well two previous solo shows, In his post-1994 work, he continues to Never Too Naked and A Part Hate A Part expose the hypocracies of the fat cats Love. Three of his films will also be included that exploit South Africa’s complex and in the Film Festival programme (see page conflicted democracy. 125). Evita Bezuidenhout will make a special appearance at the screening of Pieter-Dirk Uys was awarded Skating on Thin Uys on Wednesday South Africa’s prestigious 8 July at 12:00. 73 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS PIETER-DIRK UYS INTHE A WORLD PREMIERE OF THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL THE ECHO OF PRESENTS PIETER-DIRK UYS IN A NOISE A PART HATE A PART LOVE

vita Bezuidenhout has been part of the South EAfrican political landscape ever since she swopped being housewife and mother for a new life as the South African Ambassador to the Black Homeland of Bapetikosweti in 1981. She is now in her 80th year and – still active and iconic. Inspired by her three born-free grandchildren and fascinated by the ANC of which she is a member, Evita takes the reality of her past, the celebration of the present and the challenge of our future, and creates a perfect koeksister of legend and laughter. In this once-only presentation, she is joined by some old friends and new foes, while always remembering the advice of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, “Ousie Evita? Always love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation!”

Evita Bezuidenhout’s biography A Part Hate A Part Love by Pieter-Dirk Uys is available on 1981 PIETER-DIRK UYS WRITES, PERFORMS AND ALSO STAGE MANAGES’ Amazon Kindle. ADAPT OR DYE’ ON TOUR.

ieter-Dirk Uys is 70 this year. Here he is once again alone on stage Pwhere he has been over 7 000 times. Has he become the echo of a noise long since gone into the mists of history? Or are his satirical onslaughts on the politics of our democracy evoking the echo of that noise of an apartheid past?

Does history eventually repeat itself and take tragedy and turn it into farce, wearing a red hard hat? Or does history just rhyme: from amandla to Nkandla?

A story is to be told. A life is still to be led.

A world premiere, one performance only at the National Arts Festival.

Pieter-Dirk Uys’s two memoirs Elections & Erections and Between the Devil and the Deep are available on Amazon Kindle.

PHOTO: STEFAN HURTER GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT TUESDAY 7 JULY 20:30 SUNDAY 5 JULY 19:00 DURATION 1hr 15 min (no interval) DURATION 1hr 15min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R90 Concessions R85 TICKETS Full price R90 Concessions R85 74

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF CAST: ZOLISWA KAWE NTOMBI MATHUTSHI AFRICAN TIMES SUE PYLER PEGGY TUNYISWA WRITER AND DIRECTOR Pieter-Dirk Uys STEFAN HURTER

frican Times is a political family drama set in South AAfrica some years into the future. Minister M Z Nkosi returns from a visit to Beijing with a new young Chinese wife. His daughters, Sibongile and Nomsa, have to come to terms with this unexpected addition to the family. Their youngest sister, Karabo, also returns with her father after years in self-imposed exile. Ubuntu, their sprawling homestead nestled safely behind high walls and a state This play is a white of the art security protection becomes a hive of activity comedy or a black and tension when the carefully controlled situation of tragedy, depending calm outside the gates veers out of control. This highly on whose side respected family, part of the dwindling generation of you’re on – struggle aristocrats, finds itself marooned in the comfort Pieter-Dirk Uys RHODES THEATRE of their fortress-home, while having to come to terms with TUESDAY 2 JULY 20:30 an ever-changing state of crisis. African Times embraces WEDNESDAY 3 JULY 16:00 & 20:30 the tensions of today, hinting at the upheavals of the past THURSDAY 4 JULY 16:00 & 20:30 and suggesting solutions in the future. DURATION 2 hours (no interval) A post-performance discussion with the director and cast, AGE RECOMMENDATION All moderated by an arts journalist from City Press, will take TICKETS Full price R75 place after the 20:30 performance on Tuesday 2 July . See Concessions R85 the Think!Fest Programme for more details about post- performance discussions.

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS PIETER-DIRK UYS AS BAMBI KELLERMAN IN NEVER TOO NAKED WITH MUSICAL DIRECTION AND ARRANGEMENTS BY GODFREY JOHNSON

“Bambi is a gift from Pieter-Dirk Uys we should Never Too Naked was the winner of the 2010 Fleur de Cap Award for treasure while we have her with us.” Best Cabaret for ‘F.A.K. Songs & other Struggle Anthems’ Cape Times

ambi’s extraordinary story of survival is told in song and sketch, her background echoed in Bfamiliar tunes, her inspirations gently mocked through canny impersonation. With Pieter- Dirk Uys as Bambi and with music arranged by Godfrey Johnson, Never Too Naked is performed in three languages. Bambi’s story is told in English, while the songs include some German and Afrikaans. This cabaret is not for the faint-hearted. It unites the acrid stench of the old Weimar Republic of the 1930s and the sexy rot of Hamburg’s Reperbahn with the familiar aromas associated with ‘ons eie’ Voortrekker-camps and braaivleis-orgies.

Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout will not be on stage with Bambi. The two sisters are sworn enemies and have never been seen in the same place at the same time. And for good reason. Whereas Evita is proper in all aspects, Bambi is not. The former stripper/sex worker now runs her internationally-known wine cellar in Paarl – with ‘special offers’ on weekends, plus condoms. With her Nazi husband’s ashes in an urn on the piano, Bambi sings about love and confides about life. Not for the squeamish or the proper, this cabaret features songs by Kurt Weill and Stephen Sondheim, as well as a selection of familiar Afrikaans liedjies from the legendary F.A.K Sangbundel, a songbook of the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural organisations, reinvented by Bambi to suit the mood of 2015.

GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT TUESDAY 7 JULY 15:00 Bambi Kellermann’s DURATION 1hr 15min (no interval) autobiography Never AGE RECOMMENDATION All Too Naked is available on Amazon Kindle. TICKETS Full price R90 Concessions R85 75 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE AUTO & GENERAL THEATRE ON THE SQUARE AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN STATE THEATRE, PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF CRAIG HIGGINSON’S THE IMAGINED LAND

TEAM: DIRECTOR Malcolm Purkey SET & LIGHTING DESIGN Denis Hutchinson PRODUCER Kuhn

CAST: EDWARD SMITH Nat Ramabulana EMILY BLACKBURNE Janna Ramos Violante BRONWEN BLACKBURNE Fiona Ramsay

raig Higginson is an internationally acclaimed writer Cwho lives in Johannesburg. His plays have been performed and produced at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Trafalgar Studios, Theatre 503 and the Finborough Theatre (all London), the Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), the Stadsteater (Stockholm), Salisbury Theatre, the Citizens Theatre (Glasgow), Live Theatre (Newcastle), Next Theatre (Chicago), the Market Theatre (Johannesburg) and several other theatres and festivals around the world.

The huge local and international success of his play The Girl in the Yellow Dress which premiered in 2010, was described by Chris Thurman in the Financial Mail as “a liberating new avenue for SA theatre … a rich, complex and moving production that fully deserves the accolades it received in Grahamstown, Cape Town, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Glasgow and Stockholm.”

In Craig Higginson’s new play, The Imagined Land, a famous Zimbabwean novelist is about to undergo brain surgery. Her daughter, a literary critic studying in America, is coming home to Johannesburg to take care of her. A young biographer – also originally from Zimbabwe – arrives at the front door, requesting to write the biography of the woman who changed the course of his life.

The Imagined Land is a new state of the nation play for our troubled, troubling times. How do we represent ourselves through narrative? How do we represent each other? Is it true – as Oscar Wilde claimed – that all criticism is a form of autobiography?

This gripping, witty, sexy, heady drama draws on echoes from the lives of Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer – but soon evolves into a timely meditation on VICTORIA THEATRE some of the central dilemmas of our time. FRIDAY 10 JULY 16:00 SATURDAY 11 JULY 12:00 & 20:00 Directed by former Artistic Director of the Market SUNDAY 12 JULY 12:00 & 20:00 Theatre, Malcolm Purkey, this production features a DURATION 1hr 25min (incl. interval) dynamic cast including the legendary Fiona Ramsay AGE RECOMMENDATION 10+ and the newest, brightest stars in the South African theatre scene Nat Ramabulana and Janna Ramos TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 Violante. A post-performance discussion with the director and The Imagined Land promises to be as challenging and cast, moderated by an arts journalist from City Press, groundbreaking as Higginson’s Dream of the Dog and will take place after the 16:00 performance on Friday The Girl in the Yellow Dress. 10 July . See the Think!Fest Programme for more details about post-performance discussions. 76 PICTURES BY DANI BISCHOFF AND JON KEEVY

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BIG BAD WOLF PRESENTS THREE BLIND MICE Did you ever see such a sight in your life? After the runaway worldwide success of shaped by the spotlight placed on the legal The Farmer is dead. His mutilated body The Three Little Pigs, the creative team that and penal systems by high profile cases was found by his family on the night of his brought the darkly hilarious and terrifyingly like Pistorius and Dewani, as well as the gruesome murder, and three blind mice are sinister Orwellian take on corruption in the many others like those that fill our timelines, now doing time for the crime. However… South African Police Service to the stage our newspapers, and our news reports something doesn’t quite add up about that now has a new tale to tell. They invite you to every day. All of these feed into the fable night. They swear they’ve been framed. take their hand and venture with them into and fairy tale to create a gritty, surreal, and Sure, they wanted to rob him blind, but that the deeper, darker forest for the next acerbic unforgiving journey into the dark heart of doesn’t mean that they killed him. Now, reflection of our times, with a new chapter: South African justice. sitting in prison and awaiting parole, the Three Blind Mice. question remains: did the Farmer’s wife cut And it is in this dark world that our story off their tails with good reason, or were they In a world where justice is blind, Three takes place. just three blind mice in the wrong place at Blind Mice looks to the horrific and barely Three Blind Mice… the wrong time? believable narratives that have dominated Three Blind Mice… our media recently. This world has been See how they run…

DIRECTOR TARA NOTCUTT CAST: RHODES BOX WRITERS JAMES CAIRNS, TARA NOTCUTT, JAMES CAIRNS ALBERT PRETORIUS, ROB VAN VUUREN ALBERT PRETORIUS MONDAY 6 JULY 15:00 & 20:00 SET, COSTUME & LIGHTING NEIL COPPEN ROB VAN VUUREN TUESDAY 7 JULY 15:00 & 20:00 SOUND DESIGN BRAAM DU TOIT WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 15:00 & 20:00 DURATION 1hr 10min (no interval) A post-performance discussion with the director and cast, moderated by an arts AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 16 journalist from City Press, will take place after the 15:00 performance on Monday TICKETS Full price R75 Concessions R65 6 July . See the Think!Fest Programme for more details about post-performance discussions. 77

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ARTS TRUST OF SOUTH AFRICA (ATSA) AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN STATE THEATRE, PRESENTS A VOICE I CANNOT SILENCE A PLAY BASED ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF ALAN PATON BY GREG HOMANN AND RALPH LAWSON

Voice I Cannot Silence is a moving and empathetic personal examination CAST: Aof life as portrayed through Alan Paton’s own words, stories, poems, and ALAN PATON Ralph Lawson autobiographies. The play highlights the invaluable contribution made by ANNE HOPKINS Clare Mortimer the author of Cry, The Beloved Country who was, in the words of Douglas SPONONO Menzi Mkhwane Livingstone, a “lighthouse in the South African twilight” during the dark decades leading up to the country’s constitutional democracy. Paton’s internationally recognised gifts of lyric verse, evocative prose, and vibrant story telling are TEAM: combined to create a richly dramatic portrait. DIRECTED BY Greg Homann SET DESIGN Nadya Cohen The play focuses on the various watersheds in the author’s life – his years as LIGHTING DESIGN Michael Broderick Principal of Diepkloof Reformatory, the “toughest black borstal in the southern SOUNDSCAPE Evan Roberts hemisphere”, where he introduced daring reforms that brought him into conflict PHOTOGRAPHY Anthony Stonier with the architect of apartheid Hendrik Verwoerd; his position as President of COMPANY MANAGER Murray Angus-Leppan the Liberal Party that led to harassment and a ten year period during which his MANAGEMENT Sue Clarence passport was taken away by the apartheid government; his indomitable belief in and daunting struggle for human rights; and the complexities of his personal relationships.

These weighty themes are explored through Paton’s interaction with Anne Hopkins who he employed in 1968 as a secretary shortly after the death of his RHODES BOX THEATRE wife, Dorrie. While trying to come to terms with his loss, the memories of his FRIDAY 10 JULY 12:00 & 20:30 wife and their love for each other are set in contrast to his difficult days at the SATURDAY 11 JULY 12:00 & 20:30 reformatory some twenty years earlier where he vividly remembers a curious SUNDAY 12 JULY 12:00 young man called Sponono. This private story plays out against the tumultuous DURATION 2hrs (incl. interval) politics of the day as Paton, one of the country’s cultural and political icons, tries to hold together the Liberal Party and himself. AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 13 TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 The play – sometimes satirical, often wryly amusing, redolent with Paton’s profound love of nature and the devout Anglicanism that sustained him – reveals a complex man who was haunted by the injustices of South African A post-performance discussion with the director and society and whose entire existence and cast, moderated by an arts journalist from City Press, work was dedicated to equality, will take place after the 12:00 performance on Friday alleviation of human suffering, 10 July . See the Think!Fest Programme for more and to what he called “the details about post-performance discussions. grand theories of freedom and responsibility”.

With thanks to The Alan Paton Wills Trust, The Alan Paton Centre & Struggle Archives, and Anne Paton. 78

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BAXTER THEATRE, PRESENTS BORN IN THE RSA t the World Premiere of Born in the RSA collaborative writing and a variety of genres to CAST: Aat the Market Theatre in 1985, The create and develop work. THENJIWE BONO Faniswa Yisa Star described legendary South African NICKY DONAHUE Roeline Daneel theatre-maker Barney Simon’s production Thoko Ntshinga, who performed the role of ZACHARIA MELANI Vakalisi ‘Dobs’ as “brilliantly perceptive,” while The Citizen Thenjiwe in the original production, directs Madotyeni called it “powerful” and the Sunday Times this revival with an ensemble of artists who MIA STEINMAN Emily Child said, “A play infinitely worth seeing”. The have become theatre blue-bloods in the GLEN DONAHUE Francis Chouler production toured to great acclaim in England South African stage, television and film SINDISWA BONA Zanele Radu and the USA, where The New York Times industry. Born in the RSA, described as a wrote about its “… dramatic, emotional and living newspaper, fuses and interconnects intellectual energy …” monologues and stories in a riveting drama CREATED BY Barney Simon and that brings to life a slice of everyday South the original cast This revival of Born in the RSA marks the 20th Africa and its people during the State of DIRECTED BY Thoko Ntshinga anniversary of Barney Simon’s death on 30 Emergency at the height of apartheid. SET DESIGN Patrick Curtis June 1995. He was the legendary artistic LIGHTING DESIGN Luyanda Somkhence director, writer, and co-creator of the Market In 1976 Simon co-founded and became and Lara Foot Theatre in Johannesburg. Armed with little artistic director of the Market Theatre, PRODUCER Lara Foot more than the conviction that culture can alongside Mannie Manim, who was the change society, his work challenged the lighting designer for the original production apartheid regime. of Born in the RSA. Barney Simon’s impressive GRAEME COLLEGE canon of work included Phiri, Hey Listen, THURSDAY 2 JULY 18:00 Widely respected as one of this country’s People, People Too, Storytime, Cincinnati, FRIDAY 3 JULY 14:00 & 18:00 most innovative and visionary playwrights Cold Stone Jug, Call Me Woman, Marico SATURDAY 4 JULY 14:00 & 18:00 and directors, he perfected the art of Moonshine and Manpower, Woza Albert!, workshopping productions, which involved Black Dog-In-J’emnyama, Outers, Klaaglied DURATION 1hr 30min (no interval) sending his actors onto the streets to vir Kous, Inyanga - about Women in Africa, AGE RECOMMENDATION All experience first-hand the actual lives and Eden and Other Places, Score me the Ages, TICKETS: Full price R70 realities of the characters which they would Starbrites, Singing the Times, Silent Movie and Concessions R65 later portray on stage. His method also used The Suit.

A post-performance discussion with the director and cast, moderated by an arts journalist from City Press, will take place after the 18:00 performance on Thursday 2 July. See the Think!Fest Programme for more details about post-performance discussions. 79 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS I HAVE LIFE – ALISON’S JOURNEY

BASED ON THE BOOK BY MARIANNE THAMM

ased on the true and incredible is a sensitively directed, emotional Bstory of a woman who, twenty rollercoaster ride that sees Alison’s years ago, was raped, stabbed passion for life overcome the brutality multiple times and then had her of her attack. throat cut, arts critic Leon van Nierop describes I Have Life – Alison’s Journey Alison Botha’s story of survival hit as “an amazing experience, not only CAST:the headlines in December 1994 and on a human level, but also as a piece of Alisonleft South Botha Africa reeling in shock andSuanne Braun captivating theatre”. Kim,horror. Claire, She Nadia had Swanepoel, been found crawling Alison’sfrom a Inner remote Voice picnic spot on a beach Shaeleen Tobin Adapted from the book by Marianne Theunsnear Port Kruger, Elizabeth, Richard, after Dr. Angelov,being Thamm, SAFTA Lifetime Achievement Paramedic,abducted, Alison’s raped andInner stabbed Voice multiple David TEAM:De Beer award winning theatre director Melvyntimes. Humple, Her captors Tiaan had Eilerd, slit herOrderly, throat, ADAPTED & DIRECTED BY Maralin Vanrenen Maralin Vanrenen’s adaptation is a Judgeattempted Jansen, to Alison’s disembowel Inner Voiceher, and left Clayton SET Boyd & LIGHTING DESIGN Dennis Hutchinson tribute to one woman’s remarkable Fransher fordu dead.Toit, Philip, Pieter, Paramedic, SOUND DESIGN Deon Pitman journey from her ordeal, through Dr. Comyn, Alison’s Inner Voice Chris van RensbergCOSTUME DESIGN Jemma Kahn her recovery and on to becoming an Twenty years later, Alison’s story STAGE MANAGEMENT Sone Theron inspiration around the globe. resonates strongly in a crime-ridden South Africa. But Vanrenen’s Vanrenen skilfully draws the audience adaptation of Alison’s moving and VICTORIA THEATRE members into Alison’s harrowing night inspiring biography is more than just THURSDAY 2 JULY 16:00 of torment, allowing them access a powerful reminder of the present FRIDAY 3 JULY 14:00 & 18:00 to her most personal thoughts and day horrors of gender violence in our SATURDAY 4 JULY 14:00 & 18:00 feelings via an “inner voice”. In so society – it is also a beacon of hope, doing, she affords the audience the a beacon personified by Tiaan Eilerd, DURATION 1hr 10min (no interval) chance to bear witness to Alison’s the man who found Alison on that dark AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 16 determination and sheer will to live in road many years ago and helped her TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 the face of intense cruelty. The play to stay alive.

The origination of this production was been made possible with the support of A post-performance discussion with the director Nikola Nel and the Andrea Fine Women’s Foundation, and Josephine Fine and the and cast, moderated by an arts journalist from City Azriel and Moyra Fine Foundation. Appreciation is also extended to Yolande Sinder Press, will take place after the 16:00 performance on for costumes from Sinderella Costume Hire. Thursday 2 July. See the Think!Fest Programme for more details about post-performance discussions.

Alison as played by Suanne Braun crawls to the road to save her life. 80

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH ABRAHAMSE & MEYER PRODUCTIONS, PRESENTS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

PRINCE OF DENMARK, AS PERFORMED BY THE CREW, ABOARD THE RED DRAGON OFF THE EAST COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA, 1608

“The Play’s the thing…”

aving achieved international acclaim develops the meta-theatricality of Hamlet Hwith The Tragedy of Richard III even further: 6 actors play 6 Jacobean [2010], Shakespeare’s R&J [2011] and A sailors who, in turn, play all the parts in Midsummer Night’s Dream [2012], the Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Making it a play, National Arts Festival and Abrahamse & within a play, within a play. Meyer Productions bring a startling new production of Shakespeare greatest play to Hamlet states that the purpose of theatre is this year’s Festival. “to hold as ‘twere the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own One of the earliest recorded performances image, and the very age and body of the of Hamlet, during Shakespeare’s life-time, time his form and pressure.” took place off the East Coast of South Africa when, in 1608, the crew of the East India Ship, Red Dragon performed Hamlet Few plays are as universal as Hamlet and aboard their ship. This historic performance each successive generation continues serves as the inspiration for this production. to discover the wealth of treasures this monumental play holds. One of the The most meta-theatrical of Shakespeare’s most profound observations of the plays, Hamlet abounds with images of human condition ever written, Hamlet is theatre, acting and actors. This production Shakespeare’s definitive “poem unlimited.”

CAST: SAILOR 1 – FRANCISCO/HAMLET/GHOST/LUCIANUS: Marcel Meyer SAILOR 2 – KING CLAUDIUS / PLAYER KING: Nicholas Dallas SAILOR 3 – BERNARDO/QUEEN GERTRUDE/REYNALDO/PLAYER QUEEN: Callum Tilbury SAILOR 4 – HORATIO/POLONIUS: Dean Balie SAILOR 5 – LAERTES/MARCELLUS/ROSENCRANTZ/FIRST PLAYER: Jeremy Richard SAILOR 6 – OPHELIA/GUILDENSTERN/GRAVE-DIGGER/OSRIC: Mathew Baldwin

TEAM: ADAPTATION: Fred Abrahamse & Marcel Meyer RHODES THEATRE SET/LIGHTING DESIGN & DIRECTION: Fred Abrahamse COSTUME DESIGN: Marcel Meyer MONDAY 6 JULY 19:00 ORIGINAL SCORE: Charl-Johan Lingenfelder TUESDAY 7 JULY 12:00 & 19:00 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 12:00 & 19:00 DURATION 3hrs (incl. 20 minute interval) A post-performance discussion with the director and cast, moderated by an arts journalist from City Press, will take place after the 19:00 performance on Monday AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 16 6 July . See the Think!Fest Programme for more details about post-performance TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 discussions. 81 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH MARS VZW AND THE FLEMISH-DUTCH HOUSE DEBUREN, PRESENTS THE SOUTH AFRICAN PREMIERE OF ANOTHER GREAT YEAR FOR FISHING

ow do you live in the present? In a world with never-ending zap-options CONCEPT, TEXT & that try to distract you for every second in life? How do you stay true to H PERFORMANCE Tom Struyf yourself when everything around you is screaming that it can be better, faster, nicer? DANCE Nelle Hens DRAMATURGY Willem De Maeseneer Actor Tom Struyf and dancer Nelle Hens are looking for the fire exit. With the CAMERA, EDITING help of a wide range of spin-doctors, psychiatrists, journalists and philosophers AND TECHNIQUE Geert De Vleesschauwer they try to unravel what happens in the backrooms of the ratrace. Who’s running the show? GRAEME COLLEGE Another Great Year for Fishing is the adorned story of a life where fiction and SATURDAY 11 JULY 20:00 reality become more and more intertwined. The play centres on the question of how to lead a normal life in an ever-changing society where a great deal of SUNDAY 12 JULY 11:00 adopted power is constantly required. DURATION 1hr 20min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION 16+ This production was selected for Stückemarkt of Theatertreffen 2015 in Berlin, TICKETS Full price R75 Concessions R65 which focusses on young European dramatists who have developed a new theatrical language.

The South African premiere of Another Great Year for Fishing is made possible with the support of MARS vzw in co-production with detheatermaker, Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond & deBuren, TAKT Dommelhof and Cultural Centre C-Mine Genk in collaboration with kc Monty and with the support of the Flemish Literature Fund, the City of Antwerp and the Flemish Government. www.tomstruyf.be 82

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH MICK PERRIN WORLDWIDE PRESENTS DYLAN MORAN OFF THE HOOK

EXPECT A MASTER CLASS OF COMEDY WHEN IRISH RACONTEUR DYLAN MORAN BRINGS HIS NEWEST SHOW OFF THE HOOK TO GRAHAMSTOWN ON HIS FIRST VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA.

oran, who has been called The Oscar Wilde and an appearance on Letterman. The new show Mof comedy, has recently been sharpening promises to deliver more of Moran’s unique take on his deceptively rambling stand up in unusual love, politics, misery and the everyday absurdities of places including Kiev, Moscow, Kazakhstan and life all delivered with poetical panache. For any lover St Petersburg. He has spent much of the last year of comedy this is the must see show of 2015. touring the US whilst working on a TV pilot for ABC

ylan Moran is an Irish comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker who, at 24, became the Dyoungest person to win the prestigious Perrier Comedy Award in 1996 at the Edinburgh Fringe. Since then his comedy career has seen him perform globally – including the Hay Festival, Montreal International Comedy Festival, Vancouver Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Festival.

He is best known for his sardonic observational comedy, the UK television sitcom Black Books (which he co-wrote and starred in, and which has twice received BAFTA Awards), and his film work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run.

In 2007 he was voted the 17th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 14th greatest stand-up comic. Moran was declared “the greatest comedian, living or dead” by the French newspaper Le Monde in July 2007.

It didn’t falter for a moment. This is stand-up comedy of the first order... there’s scarcely a word wasted... seriously good fun” The Times

“Jokes as sharp as barbed wire and a comedy brain quicker than a steel trap… Rarely have the rafters of the Playhouse shook so dangerously to the sound of laughter.” The Scotsman

“A supremely confident performer, his timing for delivering punchlines is something special” The Telegraph

GUY BUTLER THEATRE FRIDAY 3 JULY 21:30 SATURDAY 4 JULY 21:30 SUNDAY 5 JULY 21:30 DURATION 1hr 50min (incl. 20min interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION 15+ (L) TICKETS: Full price R130 Concessions R120 83 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROB VAN VUUREN PRODUCTIONS , PRESENTS The Very Big Comedy Show Milton Berle said “laughter is an instant vacation”, Oscar Wilde pontificated that “laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one”, and Audrey Hepburn (really, you gonna mention Audrey Hepburn on this page?), yes, Audrey Hepburn said, “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.” Audrey Hepburn, Oscar Wilde and Milton Berle would be at the Very Big Comedy Show if they could be, so why wouldn’t you?

Featuring no fewer than 7 of South Africa’s biggest stand-up comedians – the Very Big Comedy Show promises tummy-aching laughter – the kind of irrepressible of laughter you used to get as a kid – when something was so funny and you couldn’t help but laugh despite the fact that your parents [teacher, headmaster, the girl/boyfriend you were trying to impress] were decidedly un- amused – the kind of laughter we all miss in the helter skelter of life. That’s what you’ll get at the Guy Butler Theatre, July 9 at 7pm. Featuring: Stuart Taylor Loyiso Madinga Angel Campey

And ‘mine host’, Rob van Vuuren

comedian, magician, and newcomer of the year mc with an uncanny ability at the Savanna Comic’s Stand-up comedian, to cast spells of unbridled Choice Awards – opening sit-down writer, twirl- laughter on virtually any around joy flinger... act for comedian Trevor audience – Going nowhere Noah on his NationWILD and falls down stairs Slowly, Learner Husband, while texting in heels tour. Techni-coloured. – Yes, Really, Angel, (what can we say?) Kings and Queens of became a comedian by Comedy, Rocking the Conrad Koch Donovan Goliath mistake while he was Daisies, Synergy, Rock trying to be an actor… his the River. comedy is characterised by absurd, surreal, and Sne Dladla disturbingly hilarious physical interpretations of situations and characters. WhatWhat, The Most Amazing Show, Pants on Fire, Rob van Vuuren Live.

sidekick to Chester true name Donovan David Missing, Ronnie and Goliath (who wouldn’t an ostrich with a bad go into comedy?) – a attitude – combines coloured boy who looks his comedy includes hilarious comedy with white but speaks fluent pant-pee-ing gags, world class puppetry Xhosa – Blacks Only, impersonations, and Soweto Comedy Festival, beatboxing – Jokes on 99% Xhosa, 99% Zulu, Jou You, Raiders, Jou Ma se GUY BUTLER THEATRE, MONUMENT Ma Se Comedy, Mzansi Comedy, Pants on Fire. THURSDAY 9 JULY 19:00 Festival. DURATION 1hr 20mins (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 16+ (L) TICKETS Full price R90 Concessions R85 84 THE EASTERN CAPE PROVINCIAL ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE 3RD EASTERN CAPE PERFORMING ARTS SHOWCASE GIVE US THIS DAY PRODUCER New Generation Productions WRITER & DIRECTOR Mzwandile Maqina MUSICAL DIRECTOR Rev Pat Pasha

CAST: QAQAMBILE QONA JACKIE TOKWE NAMHLA BEST NKWENKWEZI MTILA LUBABALO MBOMBELA CITY HALL irst staged in 1975 and then banned in Port Elizabeth in 1977 THURSDAY 2 JULY 12:00 SATURDAY 4 JULY 22:30 Ffollowing a report by the Judicial Commission on the 1976 Soweto FRIDAY 3 JULY 16:00 SUNDAY 5 JULY 16:00 uprisings that listed certain theatre productions as incitement. In Give DURATION 1hr 30min (no interval) Us this Day, an angry young man is marked by the Security Police after AGE RECOMMENDATION All he delivers his graduation speech. Filled with music, the play goes TICKETS Full price R50 Concessions R45 on a rollercoaster ride through a period when permits and township curfews were the order of the day. INDE LE NDLELA PRODUCER Port Elizabeth Opera House Director Xabiso Zweni Writer Monde Ngonyama Arranger Bongani Tulwana

CAST: NONDUMISO ZWENI AARTI NAROTAM XABISO ZWENI

n aging mother should be happy for a chance to own a Aproperty for the first time, an RDP house. In her mind is this gift which will be an inheritance to her from her son who sees himself as a man. What were all the years of liberation struggle for?

CITY HALL TUESDAY 7 JULY 10:00 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 14:00 & 20:30 THURSDAY 9 JULY 16:30 DURATION 1hr 30min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R50 Concessions R45 THE RETURN OF THE CYPHER PRODUCER Around HipHop / Fingo Festival hip hop festival that seeks to revive the true essence of the hiphop culture through its five PARTICIPATING GROUPS elements: music dialogues (topic discussions QUALLAY, NAKED EYE, SMERF, ZAKES, PRINCE, and music business), workshops (info sharing SON OF LAW, ADON GEEL and networks), live performances and b-boy battles) This programme seeks to represent hip round Hiphop, HAP Studios and Blah Ze hop without any compromise. ABlah’s The Return Of Cypher is a three day

THE VIC THURSDAY 2 JULY 22:00 FRIDAY 3 JULY 15:30 SATURDAY 4 JULY 14:00 DURATION 2hrs AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R20 Concessions R18 85

CARINUS ANNEXE, DONKIN STREET EGAZINI EXPRESSIONS DAILY 09:00 – 17:00 omplementing all the productions in the Eastern Cape Showcase, Egazini CExpressions is an exhibition by women from the Egazini Outreach Project. The PRESENTER Egazini Outreach Project exhibitionof work made in lino, fabric art and handcrafts is a veritable showcase of MEDIA Lino, Fabric Art & hand crafts life. It includes hand printed textiles created by Violet Booi, Nomathemba Tana and Daniwe Gongqa. ITHONGO LAM MY PEOPLE, PRODUCER Nampri’s All in One Dancers DIRECTOR Nolupumzo Ncapayi MY CHURCH CHOREOGRAPHY Lundi Mshudulu PERFORMERS Nampri’s All in One Dancers PRODUCER Affirmative Youth Entertainment WRITER & DIRECTOR Ncedo India thongo Lam is a multi-disciplinary production, bursting with talent and youthful CHOREOGRAPHER Masibulele dyakophu Ienergy. Come and engage with a diverse range of dance music that will excite and inspire you. y people My church, featuring indigenous Minstruments, is a story that reflects on the old and the new South African parliament. It raises questions about the role that Indigenous Christian churches can play in society. Does the struggle continue?

MASONIC BACK THURSDAY 2 JULY 14:00 & 20:00 FRIDAY 3 JULY 16:00 & 22:00 SUNDOWNER STAGE, 1820 SETTLERS MONUMENT SATURDAY 4 JULY 12:00 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 11:00 FRIDAY 10 JULY 11:00 SUNDAY 5 JULY 20:00 THURSDAY 9 JULY 15:30 SATURDAY 11 JULY 11:00 DURATION: 1hr (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All AGE RECOMMENDATION All DURATION 30min TICKETS Free TICKETS Full price R40 Concessions R36 86

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, WITH THE SUPPORT OF #COCREATESA (EMBASSY OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS), AND IN ASSOCIATION WITH ORKATER, PACOFS AND SOWETO THEATRE, PRESENTS THE CAST: SOUTH AFRICAN PREMIERE OF THAPELO MOHAPI OORA MOTSIKOE NONTSIKELELO NDZUME NEO TINYIKO PHAMBUKA NHLANHLA XIPU MASOTE’S KGAUGELO MPYANE BOITUMELO NTANTISO LESLEY JENNINGS MLUNGISI ZULU DREAM DESMOND POLANKA asote’s Dream is an inspiring journey Minto the life of one of South Africa’s most iconic classical musicians, Matlhaela Michael Masote who, during the apartheid era, founded the first black youth orchestra. The Soweto WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Dagmar Slagmolen Youth Orchestra, now named the BASED ON AN IDEA BY Zuko Nodada Soweto Symphony Orchestra, MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT BY Kutlwano Masote gave birth to one of the most SET & COSTUME DESIGN Dieuweke van Reij and Sanne Oostervink internationally acclaimed musical LIGHTING DESIGN Stefan Dijkman and Jeremy Ortell groups to come out of South Africa, SOUND DESIGN Robert van Delft and Marcus Naicker the Soweto String Quartet. STAGE MANAGEMENT Michelle Hertzel ARTWORK Mambila Mageza Michael Masote’s biography is PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Nicky Hassett about how he pursued his dream SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCER Roel Twijnstra, Thambo Theatre Netherlands as an 11 year old who was deeply PRODUCER Orkater moved when he heard internationally renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin perform in Soweto.

This led to his fight against a racist regime TRANSNET GREAT HALL to form the first ‘all black orchestra’ during the apartheid years. When Dutch director FRIDAY 10 JULY 20:00 Dagmar Slagmolen, who specialises in SATURDAY 11 JULY 14:00 & 20:00 telling stories in which the narrative is driven SUNDAY 12 JULY 14:00 forward by music, met him in April 2014, DURATION 1hr 10min (no interval) she was determined to tell his gripping life AGE RESTRICTION 10 + story. Slagmolen teamed up with Masote’s son, TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 Kutlwano, and the Dutch-based artistic company, Orkater to create a vibrant production with nine South African actors and musicians about one man, one A post-performance discussion with the dream, and the struggle against an absurd regime. director and cast moderated by an arts journalist from City Press, will take place after This dynamic production is the moving tale about a young boy who the 20:00 performance on Friday, 11 July. See taught himself how to play the violin using only a wooden plank and the Think!Fest Programme for more details who, on completing his matric was denied the opportunity to study about post-performance discussions. Michael music at a tertiary institution in South Africa. Determined to pursue and Kutlwano Masote will participate in a Q&A his dream, Masote went to study abroad at the Royal School of Music directly after Saturday’s 14:00 performance in London, where he obtained a licentiate in violin teaching in 1973. It was only in 1998 that a South African institution, the University of #cocreateSA is a platform for South African and South Africa (Unisa), awarded him his B Mus degree, making him the first Dutch counterparts to exchange ideas and black South African to obtain such a degree. He received an Honorary innovations for a sustainable future. If we work Licentiate in music from Unisa in 2005. together, we can make a difference and co- create solutions for local challenges. Join the Masote’s Dream was initiated as an idea spurred on by Zuko Nodada. It has conversation on Twitter & Facebook. since evolved as a production led by Thambo Theatre in partnership with PACOFS, Orkater Theatre Company from Amsterdam, the Soweto Theatre and the National Arts Festival. Special Thanks to: The Masote Family, SAfm, Via Berlin, Leonard Evers, Operadagen Rotterdam, Ingomso Film Skills and Youth Development. 87

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH BIBLIOTEEK MUSIC PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS WAANSIN

“Madness – the moment where all ties with reality are snipped. There is no return to reality, and your personality is lost forever to you and your loved ones.”

CONCEPT & PRODUCER Magdalene Minnaar CAST DIRECTOR Jaco Bouwer SOPRANO Magdalene Minnaar CHOREOGRAPHY Ina Wichterich PIANO Jose Dias DESIGN Nadine & Louis Minnaar (Scene Productions) FLUTE Louisa Theart MUSICAL DIRECTION, ARRANGEMENTS CELLO Dane Coetzee AND ADDITIONAL COMPOSITIONS Jose Dias

SCENES (WITH DECONSTRUCTED INTERLUDES) ad scenes are mostly found in the Bel Canto Mrepertoire of the 18th century. In opera, the mad (DONIZETTI) Il dolce suono... Spargi d’amaro pianto scene is that particular stage of the story where a 1894 (B. DU TOIT) Sergeant, teach the Prince to ride character is portrayed at the end of their sanity, led to HAMLET (THOMAS) Partagez-vous mes fleurs that point by a tragic coincidence or chain of events. LA SONNAMBULA (BELLINI) Ah! non credea This is often where the heroine loses her cool and kills CANDIDE (BERNSTEIN) Glitter and be gay herself with a knife, or a poisoned drink. Usually it is also here that the composer gives his creativity free rein, with colourful fire-work passages and cadenzas, and thus is the most difficult repertoire written in the history of singing. It also seems that coloratura sopranos are the most popular choice in an attempt to convert madness into song. A coloratura soprano has to be able to sing stratospherically high notes, and execute runs with machine-like precision. This repertoire is not only well known but also incredibly exciting for the audience to hear live.

After the success of Poskantoor and Vuurvoël Biblioteek Music Productions has established themselves as groundbreakers of the South African opera industry. In Waansin Magdalene Minnaar interprets a selection of mad scenes from famous operas as well as a new South African opera, accompanied by a formidable ensemble of South Africa’s finest musicians. The ensemble is led by renowned pianist Jose Dias, who also composed new instrumental material deconstructed from the original mad scenes which are performed between the scenes.

2008 Standard Bank Young Artist Jaco Bouwer has created work that resists convention and easy categorisation. For Waansin, he has joined forces with the design team, Louis and Nadine Minnaar, both lauded artists in their own capacity, to create a set – an interactive landscape of heads and conceptual

PHOTOS: ALET PRETORIUS/FOTO24 costumes.

TRANSNET GREAT HALL MONDAY 6 JULY 20:00 TUESDAY 7 JULY 14:00 DURATION 1hr AGE RECOMMENDATION 16+ TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 88

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE 3RD SEASON OF SOLO THEATRE

Solo Theatre Festivals are becoming a fast growing movement in the global theatre community. The 3rd Season of Solo Theatre, built on the theme “Voices from Reflections”, features seven solo productions that celebrate the uniqueness of the solo performer. The productions draw on intimately personal narratives that allow both the artist and the audience to reflect on contemporary society in a way that is feisty, compassionate, riveting, thought provoking and that exhibit the courage to stand up to power. The seven productions are more poignant than stand-up comedy, more intimate than a monologue, more hopeful than a rant. The content and the tone of the performances are richly varied.

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SO SOLO FESTIVAL (WITS THEATRE) PRESENTS TONY MIYAMBO IN THE CENOTAPH OF DAN WA MORIRI A PRODUCTION COMMISSIONED AND PRODUCED BY GITA PATHER AND CREATED BY TONY MIYAMBO AND GERARD BESTER IN COLLABORATION WITH WILLIAM HARDING

he Cenotaph for Dan wa Moriri is the unfolding of an intimate father-son Trelationship recalled and reconstructed through memory: remembered moments from the past, fading images captured in sepia-toned photographs, conjured up conversations that may or may not have happened, snippets of music, truths and half- truths. It is an ancient human attempt to connect our present to the past by mapping our relationships with the ones we love. The Cenotaph for Dan wa Moriri finds form in grief, examines the disappearance and reconstruction of memory to honour the intimacy of individual history. The sincerity of this highly personal narrative echoes and magnifies itself in the context of the universal, allowing an individual history to reflect in the audience, their shared need to claim one’s history.

DIRECTOR Gerard Bester DRAMATURGY William Harding LIGHTING DESIGN Julian August TRANSCRIPTIONS Raezeen Wentworth, Pearl Matsebula COMMISSIONED AND PRODUCED BY Gita Pather

THE HANGAR TUESDAY 7 JULY 12:30 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 16:30 & 21:30 THURSDAY 9 JULY 12:30 & 17:30 DURATION 1hr (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65

The Cenotaph for Dan wa Moriri is an original Wits Theatre Production, first performed at the So Solo Festival at the Wits Amphitheatre on 9 October 2014 89 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THEATURTLE PRESENTS ALON NASHMAN IN HIRSCH irsch chronicles the life and times of John adoptive home in Winnipeg, into the rehearsal HHirsch, a Hungarian/Jewish orphan of hall, on his international adventures, and into the Holocaust who emigrated to Canada, where his most intimate relationships. The range and he turned the tragedy of his childhood into live impact of his work in theatre was immense: From art. With Tom Hendry, he founded the Manitoba Brecht to Lorca, Shakespeare to Sophocles, Theatre Centre, North America’s first regional wacky musicals to Chekhov. All of these styles theatre. are represented in Alon Nashman and Paul Thompson’s Hirsch. Hirsch brought his fiery passion to the Stratford Hirsch was built in the classic Canadian Collective Festival, the National Creation method, as initiated by the play’s Theatre School of Canada, director and co-creator Paul Thompson. Research CBC Television, and every blossomed into improvisation, which was then corner of the nation’s recorded, refined and re-ordered. It retains in culture. The play follows performance something of the anarchic energy of him through his traumatic improv, and there is the crackle of anything-could- wartime experience, to his happen which fills the auditorium.

CO-CREATOR & PERFORMER Hirsch is presented at the National Arts Alon Nashman Festival with the assistance of the Canada CO-CREATOR/DIRECTOR Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Paul Thompson Council SET & COSTUME Gillian Gallow LIGHTING DESIGN Itai Erdal SOUND DESIGN Verne Good DRAMATURGE Bob White THE HANGAR FRIDAY 3 JULY 16:00 SATURDAY 4 JULY 10:00 & 21:00 SUNDAY 5 JULY 17:00 & 21:30 DURATION 1hr 15 min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 12 TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH JESTER PRODUCTIONS, PRESENTS LEE-ANN VAN ROOI IN AN ADAPTATION OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL WOMAN ALONE AUTHOR Dannelene Noach ADAPTATION & DIRECTION Christo Davids DESIGN Jody Abrahams

orking as nursing co-ordinator in one of the large, modern hospitals Win Riyadh, Dannelene Roach became acquainted with the anguish of hundreds of Saudi women who have no voice to plead their case. Contrary to the romantic tales of the Arabian Nights, Dannelene Noach experienced an Arabian nightmare when a faction inside Saudi Arabia abducted and incarcerated her in a jail. But it is her tale about how one Muslim woman came to the salvation of this Christian woman in a country where her religion was not recognised that makes her biography so poignant and so powerfully relevant within the context of current day religious conflicts. THE HANGAR Christo David’s adaptation of Danelene Noach’s Woman Alone takes the FRIDAY 10 JULY 12:30 audience on a journey through suffering and hardship, but beneath the surface it is Dannelene’s feisty personality which kept her from being SATURDAY 11 JULY 13:00 & 21:00 engulfed that is celebrated. SUNDAY 12 JULY 10:00 & 15:30 DURATION 1hr 15min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 13 TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 90 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE US EMBASSY AND IN ASSOCIATION WITH ALLEN DEWANE PRODUCTIONS, PRESENTS LESLIE LEWIS IN MIRACLE IN RWANDA “Forgiveness ... is a genuine inspiration ... Leslie Lewis’ one-woman performance makes riveting theatre.” Village Voice (New York)

eslie Lewis has performed Miracle In Rwanda over 170 times on 6 continents. Her work has been Lnominated for an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, an Audele award for best solo performance and she has been honoured by numerous prestigious festivals. In Miracle in Rwanda, Leslie Lewis brilliantly transforms herself into a host of characters to tell the incredible story of Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculée Ilibagiza, a real life messenger of hope. Leslie Lewis travelled to Rwanda with Immaculée to develop this unique piece of theatre.

Immaculée’s family was brutally murdered during the three-month slaughter that began in April 1994. Miraculously, Immaculée managed to survive. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently, cramped together in an undiscovered extra bathroom in a local pastor’s home. Crafted by Leslie Lewis and co-creator Edward Vilga, with an uplifting message of forgiveness and compassion, Miracle in Rwanda chronicles these dramatic events through the interior life of Immaculée. The message is one of personal empowerment, of overcoming all obstacles through the power of faith, and ultimately finding peace of mind amidst unbelievable hardship.

PERFORMER AND CO-CREATOR Leslie Lewis THE HANGAR DIRECTOR AND CO-CREATOR Edward Vilga SATURDAY 4 JULY 16:00 SUNDAY 5 JULY 10:00 & 19:30 MONDAY 6 JULY 17:00 & 21:30 DURATION 1hr 10min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 14 TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH BOSCHWHACKED PRODUCTIONS AND BY ARRANGEMENT WITH SAMUEL FRENCH LTD PRESENT PATRICIA BOYER IN MISS MARGARIDA’S WAY WRITER Roberto Athayde THE HANGAR DIRECTOR Pieter Bosch Botha FRIDAY 10 JULY 18:30 SATURDAY 11 JULY 10:00 & 15:30 SUNDAY 12 JULY 12:30 & 18:00 iss Margarida’s Way created a sensation in New York, and was revived on Broadway twice due to popular demand. Banned, DURATION 1hr 20min (no interval) M then censored in Brazil, the playwright’s homeland, Miss Margarida’s AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 14 Way is a searing drama that looks deeply into the heart of power. TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 Audiences and critics in over 50 countries have cheered this allegory about totalitarianism, which uses as its central metaphor a classroom. Miss Margarida is a teacher who runs her classroom with an iron fist. She teaches, teases and taunts her eighth grade class through mathematics, geography, history and her own private curriculum. Unbalanced by sexual frustrations she can only express in aggression focused on her students, Miss Margarida is an engaging monster; a dictator with the audience as her student body. There hasn’t been a more appropriate time to revive this hilarious and frightening allegory, as so many South Africans engage in questions about the recent political onslaughts, with its tinges of a dictatorship, against democratic values in South Africa. Patricia Boyer is a multi- award winning actress who garnered rave reviews at the 2014 National Arts Festival for her powerful performance in Cooking with Elisa, for which she received a Naledi Award Nomination. 91 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH AMEHLO PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS EWOK ROBINSON IN YOBO: YOU’RE ONLY BORN ONCE OBO is a spoken word audio-visual theatre experience using live video projection Yexperience created by award-winning and an original score created across continents. artists Iain EWOK Robinson and Karen Logan. Ewok’s razor-sharp tongue Set against the backdrop of the constant has graced many an international construction that is contemporary South Africa, stage to much critical acclaim. In YOBO draws us into the world of a solitary white YOBO, Logan and Ewok combine man living camped beneath a national highway. forces again to create a highly visceral ‘Ewok strikes with the venom of truth. And somehow he manages to present his truth in a way that is not judgmental – for beneath the WRITER Iain ‘Ewok’ Robinson sharp cut of the sword there is the mercy of the DIRECTOR Karen Logan scalpel, the compassion of the surgeon.’ LIGHTING DESIGN Tina le Roux Giselle Turner (Going Places, 2014) SET DESIGN Iain ‘Ewok’ Robinson, Karen Logan, Bryan Hiles ORIGINAL MUSIC Veranda Panda THOMAS PRINGLE HALL Blue Gene WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 15:00 SOUND DESIGN Iain ‘Ewok’ Robinson & THURSDAY 9 JULY 16:00 Karen Logan FRIDAY 10 JULY 16:00 AUDIO VISUALS Karen Logan CAMERA-WORK Marcello Maffeis SATURDAY 11 JULY 12:00 & 21:00 PHOTOGRAPHY Caroline Burne & DURATION 1hr (no interval) Marcello Maffeis AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 13 (L) TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH BLU BLOOD, PRESENTS CONRAD KOCH IN MISSING

LINE PRODUCTION Mpho Vizo Mogashoa GRAPHICS Ghia Human PRODUCER Blu Blood

hester Missing, South Africa’s most notorious puppet, brings you the funniest, Cfreshest material in his hilarious new show, Missing. He is accompanied by his sidekick, SA’s top ventriloquist, Conrad Koch, who insists on dragging two other puppets around with them, like those family members you can’t really get rid of, but would like to. Ronnie, the monster, has been trying to sell drugs to audience members, and Hilary, the gin-soaked showgirl ostrich, is still nobody’s handbag. Chester, like many South Africans these days, has some questions: where are we going? Who are we? Why are we still talking about race? Will Jacob Zuma pay back the money? Why is there a white guy keeping him in a suitcase? Will Chester find himself, or will he stay Missing?

THOMAS PRINGLE HALL, MONUMENT WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 20:00 THURSDAY 9 JULY 14:00 FRIDAY 10 JULY 14:00 & 18:00 SATURDAY 11 JULY 14:00 DURATION 1hr (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 12 TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 92

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL ARENA PROGRAMME PRESENTS LENTSWE ART PROJECTS’ BOY – NOTE TO A GENERATION

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Phillip M Dikotla PRODUCED BY Karabo Kgokong FEATURING Katlego Letsholonyane and Ntirelang THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL ARENA old through the art of poetry, music, dance and video-art Tprojections. The story of BOY, a young man who takes us on a PROGRAMME PRESENTS HORSES HEADS journey of unexpected events, during what was meant to be just an PRODUCTIONS’ ordinary day like the days before. Theen the youth in his community took their voices to the streets, calling for justice, dancing and singing in protest after a young member of their community died. A normal culture SIMILAR TO of anger, rage, stones flying and tires burning – a culture of expression that has carried on from generation to generation, where many put their imilar To follows two unnamed characters that have lives on the line for change and justice they will never see. Sbeen locked in a cramped room for unspecified reasons. Here, they are unable to speak to or see Through the voice of BOY, today this culture is put on the stand, in anyone from the outside world. They must rely, instead, a multi-layered poetic musical narrative, that celebrates in memory on a virtual game for social interaction. Each of them is the youth that has fallen from generation to generation, from issued an avatar whose appearance and mannerisms the 1976 Soweto uprising to the BlackBerry riots of Tottenham they can change at will. In this cyber world, they are and inspired by the story of Tarek al- afforded the freedom to present and behave however Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi of the Arab they want. Slowly, they begin to realise that this life- Spring, and to the Black Spring. We simulation game is populated by other people who listen to BOY. have also been confined for being like them: ‘similar to but not the same as everybody else’. Written by the award winning Phillip M Dikotla. A meditation on the relationship between virtual spaces and queerness, Similar To is a companion piece to SIMilar which was commissioned for the GIPCA LAND Festival and included in the Baxter Theatre Dance Festival’s 2014 Main programme. Based on an original concept by Gary Hartley and Genna Gardini, it is co- directed and performed by Hartley (Scrape and The Swell) and Zanne Solomon (The Unexpected Man, Civil Parting and The Swell), written by Gardini (WinterSweet, Scrape and The Swell) and includes an original score by UMLILO. Similar To was partially developed through a grant from The Other Foundation.

DIRECTED AND PERFORMED BY Gary Hartley and Zanne Solomon WRITTEN BY Genna Gardini MUSIC BY Umlilo / Siya Ngcobo POSTER DESIGN BY Meagan Hamman

ATHERSTONE ROOM, MONUMENT THE HANGAR THURSDAY 9 JULY 12:30 MONDAY 6 JULY 12:30 FRIDAY 10 JULY 19:00 TUESDAY 7 JULY 15:00 & 19:00 SATURDAY 11 JULY 16:00 & 20:00 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 14:00 & 19:00 SUNDAY 12 JULY 12:30 DURATION 1hr 15min (no interval) DURATION 50min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION 13+ (L) AGE RECOMMENDATION 13+ (L) TICKETS: Full price R60 Concession R50 TICKETS Full price R60 Concessions R50 93 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL ARENA PROGRAMME PRESENTS TONY JACKMAN’S CAPE OF REBELS For: Miss Hobhouse

WRITTEN BY Tony Jackman DIRECTED BY Christopher Weare FEATURING Carel Nel as C Louis Leipoldt

eporters and poets. Activists and In the more recent period, we meet a South African Roppressors. Cape of Rebels explores struggle journalist and a British reporter who cover two parallel periods of unrest: the such stories as PW Botha’s Rubicon speech, the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 and End Conscription Campaign, and the Trojan Horse the Struggle in the late 1980s-early Massacre. It’s a Cape of rebel voices demanding to be 1990s. heard despite the authorities. THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL ARENA Tony Jackman’s new play is set in This production was inspired, in part, by Songs of PROGRAMME PRESENTS HORSES HEADS historic Koopmans de Wet House the Veld and other poems, English Poems on the PRODUCTIONS’ in Cape Town’s Strand Street, Anglo-Boer War, introduced by Marthinus van Bart and the old Cafe Royal in nearby (Cederberg Publishers). Church Street. The play puts Louis Leipoldt, then a young reporter, THE HANGAR on the stage with the formidable Marie Koopmans de Wet, scourge of THURSDAY 2 JULY 19:00 the British colonial authorities, and FRIDAY 3 JULY 19:00 teachers-turned-activists and life-long SATURDAY 4 JULY 18:30 lovers Betty Molteno and Alice Greene. SUNDAY 5 JULY 12:30 Photo courtesy They are part of the ‘Cape Clutch’, MONDAY 6 JULY 19:00 of Social History who wrote poetry underground to be Collections, Iziko DURATION 1hr 15min (no interval) published in Europe and America to tell the Museums of South AGE RECOMMENDATION 10+ Africa world what was happening to Cape Rebels at the hands of British forces. TICKETS Full price R60 Concession R50

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL ARENA PROGRAMME PRESENTS RUST CO-OPERATIVE’S FULL STOPS ON YOUR FACE (FSOYF)

“If you have any interest in the future of South WRITTEN, DIRECTED & DESIGNED BY Penny Youngleson Africa, ensure you watch this work.” FEATURING Iman Isaacs Sarah Roberson SOUND DESIGNER Joanie Ludik STAGE MANAGER Philip Rademeyer

SOYF is a jihad against gender norms. for Best new production 2013). profiling. We’ve been told exactly what FWritten and directed by 2014 Fleur du a terrorist looks like. And the beckoning Cap winner Penelope Youngleson, Full FSOYF is a one-woman performance by finger of governance ensures we don’t Stops on Your Face (FSOYF) is produced by Iman Isaacs that contrasts the scourge forget it. Rust Co-Operative (Standard Bank Silver of social injustice and Islamophobia Ovation Award 2014, Amsterdam Fringe gathering momentum in global politics; But when the line between vigilante and 2014, Standard Bank Ovation Award 2013, with the increasingly horrific cases of villain is drawn by the end of that finger, it Afrovibes Festival in the Netherlands gendered violence in South African homes. becomes more and more difficult to know 2013, IDGTF Wars and genocide over the last decade whether people will be able to see past Awards have taught us our fair share of racial your face.

THE HANGAR THURSDAY 2 JULY 12:30 FRIDAY 3 JULY 12:30 SATURDAY 4 JULY 12:30 SUNDAY 5 JULY 15:00 MONDAY 6 JULY 15:00 DURATION 55min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION 16+ LVP TICKETS: Full price R60 Concession R50

IMAN ISAACS IN FULL STOPS ON YOUR FACE. PHOTOGRAPH BY JESSE KRAMER 94 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL ARENA PROGRAMME PRESENTS

AND7090 stands for “space”. It is a concert hall, PAND7090 Pa shop, a gallery and a hangout all at once. But it could also be short for PANDEMONIUM: a place PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF where everything blends into a “unique, off the STICHTING DIORAPHTE AND FONDS PODIUMKUNSTEN wall and brilliant piece of performance” (Jury – Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2014). WINNER OF THE 2014 DIORAPHTE AMSTERDAM FRINGE AWARD Pand 7090 is ‘organised fun’. It is a musical raree- MUSIC Bas Wiegers, Koen Kaptijn, Nora Mulder, Jacq Palinckx show, where the public can take a look inside and DESIGN Hugo Herrera Tobón around the box. The magic in front of the show and VIDEO Eric de Clercq the surprises behind are combined in the ultimate pop-up setting, where experience can be discovered at a bargain.

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SABC BOOTH, MONUMENT THURSDAY 2 TO MONDAY 6 JULY 12:30; 14:30; 20:00 daily DURATION 30min AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Full price R45 Concessions R35 Catch PANDTRIO on the Fringe Music Circuit 2 to 6 July - see the Fringe Programme for details

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL ARENA PROGRAMME PRESENTS SMOKE & MIRRORS’ PRODUCTION NDEBELE FUNERAL INSPIRED FROM A 10MIN PLAY BY IVAN SUAZO “...a heartbreaking yet beautiful story.” nytheatre.com ilariously heart-breaking, Ndebele Funeral pulls audiences into the music, Hdirt, and dreams of modern Soweto by examining the aspirations and losses of three characters whose lives intersect in a shack in the township’s informal settlements. This powerfully physical production delves bravely into modern poverty, health care and violence featuring original music and gumboot dancing from the mines of Jo’burg.

“...this funeral comes fully and furiously alive.” – The New York Times

CAST: WRITTEN BY Zoey Martinson THABO Yusef Miller DIRECTED BY Awoye Timpo JAN Jonathan David Martin DAWETI Zoey Martinson

The actors in this production appear courtesy of the Actors’ Equity Association WINNER! FRINGE NYC OVERALL EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR BEST PLAY CRITIC’S PICK – TIME OUT NEW YORK

Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative is a non- THE HANGAR profit production company that creates original works for theatre and the web that WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 12:00 combine socially relevant themes with an THURSDAY 9 JULY 10:00 & 15:00 ambitious, multi-disciplinary approach to storytelling. We have produced theatre FRIDAY 10 JULY 15:30 & 21:30 Off-Broadway, festivals, internationally, SATURDAY 11 JULY 18:30 and media for the web. Our work is created through extensive research and DURATION 1hr 15min (no interval) partnerships with our community, artists of AGE RECOMMENDATION All all mediums and backgrounds, and other non-profit advocacy institutions. TICKETS Full price R60 Concessions R50 Twitter: @SmokeMirrorsCo www.smokemirrors.org 95 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE

2015 STUDENT THEATRE ADVISORS: WARONA SEANE, PETER TERRY, JAQUELINE DOMISSE UNRAVELLING By Stellenbosch University

PERFORMANCE GENRE PHYSICAL THEATRE SUPERVISING LECTURER SAMANTHA PRIGGE-PIENAAR CAST MARGARET SCOTT, GRACE PETERSEN, CHENAL KOCK, LOUISE LÖTTER

Can human beings really change, or are we simply caught up in cycles of repeating behaviour that we adorn to appear different? Unravelling makes use of object theatre, mimetic and dance techniques, multiple role-playing, and sound- and video-scapes to explore the human condition giving rise to questions about whether human nature is fixed and predetermined, or willful and adaptable – or perhaps something more than both? Accessing the performers’ personal body memories and recalled stories of childhood, family life, ancestry, identity and persona through improvisation and ensemble work results in imagery that is heartfelt, nuanced, evocative and intimate. The all-female cast uses phases of the moon as a metaphor to explore growing up, growing wise, growing old and growing frail. The performance challenges conventional theatrical seating arrangements: audience members are surrounded by the performance space and are invited to shift position and perspective as the metaphoric landscape unfolds and transforms.

REHEARSAL ROOM SUNDAY 5 JULY 11:30 MONDAY 6 JULY 19:30 AGE RECOMMENDATION PG ( Mature content) DURATION 50min LANGUAGES English, Afrikaans TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35

OPEN MIKE By the South African School of Motion Picture Medium & Live Performance (AFDA), Cape Town

PERFORMANCE GENRE MUSICAL THEATRE SUPERVISING LECTURER LUCY ANNE CHARD DIRECTOR NICK MATTHEWS STAGE MANAGER ANDREA STALLBOM CAST NEIL VAN BERGEN, LISOLETHU NOMGCA, LUFEFEKAZI JOJO, CHRISTABEL MISTRI, STHEMBILE GUMEDE, TMOTHY CARLSON

Open Mike is a musical theatre piece set in a pub in a small university town, in which a group of musicians meet at an “open-mic” night and decide to form a band. Conflict arises when each individual has a different idea about the direction the band should take. A love triangle within the group threatens to destroy all their efforts to establish their band, adding to the already brewing clash. It explores the binary of dreams versus reality as well as individual versus collective, highlighting where the band is and where it would like to go in relation to individual hopes and aspirations.

REHEARSAL ROOM THURSDAY 2 JULY 17:30 FRIDAY 3 JULY 14:30 AGE RECOMMENDATION 16+ (Language) DURATION 50min LANGUAGE English TICKETS Full price R45 Concessions R35 96 to4rm By the South African School of Motion Picture Medium & Live Performance (AFDA) Johannesburg PERFORMANCE GENRE DRAMA, PHYSICAL THEATRE SUPERVISING LECTURER & DIRECTOR PRINCE LAMLA STAGE MANAGER BENJAMIN MILLS CAST CLEOLA EAYRS, STACY HART, THAPELO MADONDO, SABELO NDUMO, JOSEPH PUTTER, KELLY SNOW, ANDISIWE MBALEKI, MICHELLE NEPHAWE to4rm is a workshopped piece using the principles of physical theatre combined with personal story telling. It draws on the traditions and inspiration of Grotowski as manifest in such productions as Woza Albert, Asinamali and Coal Yard, an original work of the director Prince Lamla, a 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist, which had a season at the National Arts Festival and the Market Theatre, amongst others.

REHEARSAL ROOM WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 11:30 THURSDAY 9 JULY 16:00 AGE RECOMMENDATION All DURATION 1hr LANGUAGES English and vernacular TICKETS Full price R45 Concessions R35

RAW MEAT by CityVarsity, Cape Town PERFORMANCE GENRE DRAMA SUPERVISING LECTURER ROBERT HAXTON WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY INEZ ROBERTSON CAST AND CREW ANRAY AMANSURE, LIZELLE BERNARDO, GENNA BLAIR, LOBCKE HEIN, ANNEMIE JORDAAN, ALFREDO JOSEPH, LUYANDA KABANYANE, DAVID TRAUB, CHIRON SWARTS, DOUGLAS SWINERD, DAN-MARI VILJOEN, ROBYN WILLIAMS

This is the story of 20-year-old sex worker, Meat. When his father, John, passes away abruptly, his family is ripped from their idyllic normalcy. At the time, Meat is only 13 years old and grappling with his attraction to other men. His mother, Hunger, in the throes of an unfathomable grief, tries to soothe her suffering by dressing Meat in John’s clothing and reenacting sexual scenarios from her past. As the years drag by, Hunger continues to abuse her son. When Meat finishes school, he leaves home and moves to the city but soon realises he needs money to survive and begins to work as a sex-worker. On his father’s birthday, 7 years after his death, Meat gets a call to meet someone at a hotel. When he arrives, he realizes the client is his mother. Raw Meat is presented through a mostly realistic and slightly surreal series of interactions between characters in both the present day and past. This play, making use of a minimalist set, is a collection of deconstructed monologues and a tour of memories.

REHEARSAL ROOM THURSDAY 9 JULY 21:30 FRIDAY 10 JULY 14:30 AGE RECOMMENDATION 18+ (Mature content) DURATION 50min LANGUAGES English and Afrikaans TICKETS Full price R45 Concessions R35 97 BEHIND CLOSED MINDS by Durban University of Technology

NOORD! by the Market Theatre Laboratory

PERFORMANCE GENRE DRAMA SUPERVISING LECTURER & DIRECTOR CLARA VAUGHAN STAGE MANAGER SIBUSISO NDUMNDUM CAST HAPPY SIMELANI TSHEPO SWAFO KONKOSE TSOTETSI LERATO SEFOLOSHE LINDA TSHABALALA MALEFU MARITI NEO MATHETSA PHUMZILE GAMEDE LOTANANG MAKOTI SIMBONE QABO TEBOGO MACHABA

Are you looking for a ride? We’ll take you for a ride. A re tsamaye! Where are you going? Via Bree, Wanderers, Parkie, Mtn - NOORD! We’ve got drivers - some of them even have licenses! Some of them take licence but don’t call them abomageza! Some have girls, some are girls. Short left, short change, short cuts....short skirts? Stop sign! Mawuqeda ukujika uzobona umhlolo. Dankie driver! Emachineni - that’s where PERFORMANCE GENRE DRAMA she bought her skirt. Cheap, SUPERVISING LECTURER DEBBIE LUTGE (SCRIPT) cheap - check at her thighs! STEPHEN VAN DYK (DIRECTING) Voetsek, hamba magosha! WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY FARRELL DREW Sheshisa, sheshisa, ngena STAGE MANAGER NOMBUSO WANDA Mama, phuma Mama. CAST GABRIEL MIYA, NOZIPHO MBHELE, Vula vala kuchitheka igazi SBABILI MYEZA, ANELISA BELE, makungen’ kuzwana - Noord! NTANDO MADLALA, ANATHI GOBENI

Behind Closed Minds is a dramatic and emotionally powerful story; REHEARSAL ROOM filled with shocking surprises that never seem to lack in suspense MONDAY 6 JULY 11:30 and discovery. It is a dark and soul questioning piece that touches TUESDAY 7 JULY 18:00 issues such as loyalty, injustice and the misuse of power. Behind AGE RECOMMENDATION 16+ (Mature Content) Closed Minds is centred on the lives of Dr Victor Duval, his wife and assistant Anita and the patients that were released into their care. DURATION 1hr The play seeks to examine a side to hypnotherapy that has yet to be LANGUAGES English, IsiZulu, SeSotho explored, whilst revealing how the selfishness of one man destroyed TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35 the lives of all those who trusted him.

REHEARSAL ROOM TUESDAY 7 JULY 11:30 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 14:30 AGE RECOMMENDATION 16+ (Mature content) DURATION 1hr 10min LANGUAGE English TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35 98 J’ZEL by Oakfields College Faculty of Dance and Musical Theatre PERFORMANCE GENRE DANCE SUPERVISING LECTURER IGNATIUS VAN HEERDEN CHOREOGRAPHERS IGNATIUS VAN HEERDEN & WESLEE SWAIN LAUDER CAST NICOLENE DURING, FELICIA MRWEBI, NINA BOTHA, NARET LOOTS, ELSJE LOURENS, TAMLYN WATT, ZOE DHOOGE, KAYLAN SABBADIN, TYLA DEE NURDEN, RACHELLE BRUNETTE, ANGELA SPARKS, ALYSSA HARRISON, NADINE GROBBELAAR, MIKHAIL SWART, HARDY KEEVE, MICHAEL FULLARD, JONATHAN RAATH, CHRISTOPHER PHILLIS, MAQHAWE MIZA, NEO MSIMKA, JAY HLATSHWAYO, MICHAEL HYAMS, SIPHE MASHIGO, JUSTIN SWARTZ

As a previous recipient of the Post Office Choice Award for “excellence in innovation and creativity” and having last year’s production described by the CUE as “One of the most creative student theatre performances you will see ….”, the Oakfields College Faculty of Dance and Musical Theatre returns to the Festival with another new, original contemporary dance production. Using the classic ballet Giselle as a point of departure, choreographers Ignatius van Heerden and Weslee Swain Lauder collaborate with students to explore the various aspects of class struggles and social acceptance within an image conscious culture obsessed with physical appearances. J’ZEL will feature as part of the Student Theatre Festival before moving onto the Fringe for the rest of the run.

GRAEME COLLEGE SUNDAY 5 JULY 15:00 MONDAY 6 JULY 15:30 AGE RECOMMENDATION PG (Mature Content) DURATION 1hr TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35

J’ZEL’s Fringe performances are on Monday 6 July at 21:00, Tuesday 7 July at 17:30 and Wednesday 8 July at 15:30 (tickets for Fringe performances: R55/R50/R47) VOID by Rhodes University

PERFORMANCE GENRE DRAMA, VISUAL, PHYSICAL & PUPPET THEATRE SUPERVISING LECTURER ACTY TANG & JANET BUCKLAND DIRECTOR NATALIE EHLERS & AMEERA NAJWA MILLS STAGE MANAGER LAINE BUTLER CREATIVE DESIGNER FRANKIE VAN STRATEN CAST AMY ANNEAR, MAGDALENA DE BEER, HANA KELLY, CULLAN MACLEAR, TATUM NAIDOO, CARLA NEVARRA, TYSON NGUBENI, SHAWN SANKEY, LEA VIVIER

South Africa has weathered away, all that remains is a dystopian landscape littered with the rusted remnants of an almost forgotten past. For its eccentric inhabitants a heap of debris becomes a wealth of possibility. Within this chaotic terrain, Joe obsessively hoards a pile of junk. The enigmatic Alex, a drifter, is a magpie attracted to the mystic possibilities of Joe’s prizes. A treasure trove with which to reimagine the past. Their peculiar connection is both tumultuous and tender, at once beneficial and detrimental. Void is a stirring physical piece of storytelling which breathes life and imagination into the interaction between human and puppet.

REHEARSAL ROOM THURSDAY 2 JULY 20:30 SATURDAY 4 JULY 14:30 AGE RECOMMENDATION PG (Language) DURATION 1hr LANGUAGE English TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35 99 MEDEA by Tshwane University of Technology PERFORMANCE GENRE EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE SUPERVISING LECTURER KABI THULO DIRECTOR MARISKA DENYSSCHEN CAST GUGU NKOSI, BABONGILE GWILIZA, LUNGILE MTSHWENI, CARLA BELMONTE, LELO MABASO, SIBUSISO MCHUNU, KABO TIMELA, ISANA MASEKO

This fresh take on Euripides’ classic tragedy aims to tell Medea’s story in a more current context, primarily intended to be relevant to women of today. It aims to juxtapose how women in society are stereotyped by expressing the destructive power and strength our women have – they are not the weaklings perceive them to be as depicted by popular media. In this experimental theatre piece, which is an adaptation of the classic - the essence of the text is kept whilst transforming it into a story that tackles (current) themes that are more relevant to today’s society, placed in a local context. HORROR STORY by University of Johannesburg Arts & Culture REHEARSAL ROOM PERFORMANCE GENRE DRAMA THURSDAY 9 JULY 11:30 DIRECTOR ALBY MICHAELS FRIDAY 10 JULY 22:00 WRITTEN BY GREG MACARTHUR AGE RECOMMENDATION 16+ (Violence) STAGE MANAGER JESSICA GLENDINNING DURATION 1hr 15min CAST EBENHAEZER DIBAKWANE, LANGUAGE Predominantly English SHERAAD JACOBS TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35 In the early 1990s, two teenage boys mysteriously go missing from a small town in the Free State. Their bodies are never found. Twenty years later, Noah and Wyatt, two 16 year olds living in DON’T SHOOT THE HARBINGER the suburbs of Johannesburg, attend a screening of a brutally graphic horror film, Blood Screams, based on these supposedly by the University of Cape Town true events. Becoming obsessed with the movie, Noah and Wyatt PERFORMANCE GENRE DRAMA, PHYSICAL THEATRE decide to make a pilgrimage to the site where the actual murders SUPERVISING LECTURER MARK FLEISHMAN took place to uncover the truth behind the myth. DIRECTOR KEI-ELLA LOEWE Horror Story explores the limits of fantasy and the numbing effects WRITTEN BY KATYA MENDELSON, AMEERA of graphic violence on a generation, the blurry line between truth CONRAD, THANDO MANGCU and fiction, and what truly scares us. STAGE MANAGER ZUKISANI NONGOGO CAST AMEERA CONRAD, REHEARSAL ROOM THANDO MANGCU, KATYA MENDELSON, FRIDAY 10 JULY 19:00 NWABISA PLAATJIE, KHATHU RAMABULANA SATURDAY 11 JULY 16:00 AGE RECOMMENDATION 13+ (Violence) Sand. Sand. Sand. It’s everywhere. It wasn’t resources running out, or atomic war, or flood, or DURATION 55min zombies. It’s sand. People are living in it. Not many people, and is LANGUAGE English it really what you’d call living? Four women. They’re alone. They’re TICKETS Full price R45 Concessions R35 angry. They’re frightened. They can’t get the goddamn sand out of their ears. They’re carrying and dragging the remnants of that trusty old social wisdom that informs each of them that they are integrally different from each other; listen to how they speak. Look at how they pray, or how they don’t. They’re different. They feel it. And when Holy books and cars and televisions, vibrators, grandmother’s jewellery, temples, airplanes and McDonalds have all been ground up and are waded through, what’s that difference worth? Does this cruel and unusual punishment have a point, or did they just miss the end-of –the-world memo? Overnight the world has turned to sand, and the women wading through it are lost at sea. Figuratively speaking. Because it’s sand. It’s all sand.

REHEARSAL ROOM FRIDAY 3 JULY 11:30 SATURDAY 4 JULY 17:30 AGE RECOMMENDATION 16+ (Language) DURATION 1hr LANGUAGE English TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35 Don’t Shoot the Harbinger 100 ASHES TO ASHES THE MATCH GIRL by University of KwaZulu-Natal, College of Humanities by University of KwaZulu-Natal, PERFORMANCE GENRE DRAMA Pietermaritzburg SUPERVISING LECTURER NOXOLO MATETE WRITER / DIRECTOR CAMILLA ROGERS STAGE MANAGER ROGERS GANESAN PERFORMANCE GENRE DRAMA, CAST CHANTE DU PLESSIS, SPHAMANDLA KHANYE, PHYSICAL THEATRE ASHLEIGH GOLAITH, GOODNESS SHOBA, SUPERVISING LECTURER PETER MITCHELL ELISHA SHALOM PERUMAL, DIRECTOR JESSICA KILLERBY SBONISO MSIMANGO, SFUNDO MBANJWA STAGE MANAGER BONGEKA NGUBANE CAST NOMPILO JILI, Mzansi! What have we here? A handful of our very own politicians with balaclavas MONIQUE SCHOEMAN, on their heads! But, who are they? A shower… A red beret… Could that be Godzille BONGEKA NGUBANE, herself? And Raj! Raised from MUSA SHOZI, the dead! SABELO CELE Lights, camera, and be captivated by this political satire that ridicules the mind- blowing actions of our political leaders A modern South African adaptation of the Hans and law enforcers, in acting out a robbery Christian Anderson tale of The Little Match Girl. The of the Mother’s riches. The Mother has story is told through a fusion of performance art, mask been our refuge and our hope, but work, shadow play, puppetry and physical theatre. now she is gone. Zoo, Mally, Lenny The show highlights how we have become inured and Raj, invade the deceased Mother’s to suffering and poverty. The production retains the property, ignoring the Mandela voice of innocence and sentiment of the original story through conscience. It seems to be a win-win situation for all! But is it really? The plot takes the use of highly visual theatrical imagery combining a turn and the thieves end up with hands covered in filth… and we can smell it on modern technology with artistic simplicity. them! The UKZN Drama and Performance Studies department presents Ashes to Ashes. REHEARSAL ROOM A rip-roaring political satire touching on some of the many issues we face today! THURSDAY 2 JULY 11:30 FRIDAY 3 JULY 17:00 REHEARSAL ROOM AGE RECOMMENDATION All ages MONDAY 6 JULY 17:00 DURATION 1hr TUESDAY 7 JULY 20:00 LANGUAGE English AGE RECOMMENDATION All ages TICKETS Full Price R45 DURATION 1hr 15min Concessions R35 LANGUAGE English TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35

FALLING:TRIPTYCH By

PERFORMANCE GENRE DANCE SUPERVISING LECTURER MARIE HELEEN COETZEE CHOREOGRAPHER NICOLA HASKINS CAST UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA STUDENTS FEATURING BAILEY SNYMAN (MATCHBOX THEATRE COLLECTIVE)

1. Falling into 2. Falling apart 3. Falling away A triptych is a work of art that is divided into three sections. This choreographic exploration unpacks the idea of falling or how we drop or fall into/apart/away from one another. The force of gravity is the consequence of the curvature of spacetime. This work is visceral, dynamic and fast as bodies are hurled through the air. Don’t miss this artistic choreographic exploration.

REHEARSAL ROOM SATURDAY 4 JULY 20:30 SUNDAY 5 JULY 14:30 AGE RECOMMENDATION All DURATION 50min LANGUAGE English TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35 101 ADMISSION RESERVED BOEGOESPRUIT By the University of the Western Cape EXT 25 PERFORMANCE GENRE WORKSHOPPED DRAMA By the University of the Witwatersrand SUPERVISING LECTURER MARY HAMES DIRECTOR AYA PASIYA CAST TARRYN MARTINS, SIMNIKIWE SAWUBA, PHUMELELA MAKUMSHA, NANGAMSO BOMVANA, CHIZOBA MKHWANAZI, VUYOLWETHU TUNGUNTWANA

Admission Reserved is a workshopped production by University of the Western Cape women students and they are questioning the privilege of access of certain bodies to various spaces and places. Through performance they unveil the perils and threats that exist in certain spaces for certain embodied beings but they also show the joy of being differently raced and gendered in other spaces. These women ultimately challenge the historical, cultural, religious and academic constructed spaces for their measured exclusion of bodily beings. They speak about how overtly or covertly admission could be reserved to spaces but how access to their bodies is often being compromised through this inclusion or exclusion. They share through performance, spoken word and song how they prevent, limit or allow access to their own bodies. They ask you how you would feel when you are not allowed to enter when they lay down their terms and conditions for admission.

REHEARSAL ROOM WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 20:00 THURSDAY 9 JULY 14:00 AGE RECOMMENDATION All ages DURATION 1hr LANGUAGE English PERFORMANCE GENRE MUSICAL THEATRE TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35 SUPERVISING LECTURER JONI BARNARD DIRECTOR LEONIE OGLE DEVISED BY THE CAST STAGE MANAGER CAITLIN MCGREGOR CAST SHARMYAN KASSEN, EDGES FRANCESCA MATTHYS, by The Waterfront Theatre College KIRSTY MARILLIER, JOVAN MUTHRAY PERFORMANCE GENRE MUSICAL THEATRE SUPERVISING LECTURER PAUL GRIFFITHS We stumble upon a close-knit group, living in a Coloured DIRECTOR GARTH TAVARES township somewhere, marginalised for different reasons and WRITTEN BY BENJ PASEK AND JUSTIN PAUL all hoping that winning a local talent show will rescue them STAGE MANAGER BYRON BURE/KIM BUCKLE from the poverty of their lives. CAST DEAN DE KLERK, DIRK JOUBERT, Despite the hardship, they are deeply connected by a love for NATHAN KRUGER, NICKY ROSSOUW, each other… a group of misfits perhaps, but all with stories to ALLY WHITE, KRISTIN-ANNE tell, sometimes sad but mostly funny, tongue-in-cheek and BREYTENBACH, THEMBI BENENENGU, aware. The play is part musical with an original score written JOCELYN ROSKILLY, CATHARINE HILL by the students. The characters, which include a spaza shop owner, a newly unemployed bank teller, a high school Edges is a contemporary song cycle about coming of age, growth and teenager and a gay hairdresser, live inter-connected lives on self-discovery. the periphery of the ‘New South Africa’ and their individual Written when Pasek and Paul were both just 19 and graduates at the stories connect and collide to provide a richly textured story University of Michigan, Edges is a metaphor for the feeling one gets in about a small coloured community. those moments when one is teetering on the edge of one’s life: coming The strength of this play resides in the belief that all human face to face with issues such as love, commitment, identity and purpose. beings are at heart exactly the same no matter what our race, Featuring a score of hit numbers including ‘The Facebook Song’, ‘I Hmm ethnicity, language affiliation or gender.Take a detour to You’ and ‘Perfect’ - Edges is bound to strike a chord with anyone who has Boegoespruit Ext 25 as we follow their journey as they sit… felt the pains of growing up! and wait…

REHEARSAL ROOM REHEARSAL ROOM FRIDAY 10 JULY 11:30 SUNDAY 5 JULY 19:00 SATURDAY 11 JULY 18:00 MONDAY 6 JULY 21:30 AGE RECOMMENDATION All ages AGE RECOMMENDATION PG13 DURATION 1hr DURATION 1hr LANGUAGE English LANGUAGES English, SA languages TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35 TICKETS Full Price R45 Concessions R35 102

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH WHATIFTHEWORLD GALLERY PRESENT STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST ATHI-PATRA RUGA’S

THE ELDER OF AZANIA

he Elder of Azania is a slice from a moment, that of Ta mock-ritual – maybe of an Arcadian scene from Azania via the Claude Debussy/Ballet Russes’ L’Apres Midi d’un Faun [1912], borrowing on the mythological gravitas of the fauns interactions with the Maidens.

In this installment of The Future White Women of Azania Ruga continues expanding on the pantheon of avatars of this mythological population. During the creation of the Azanians we have seen the Versatile Queen Ivy taking over a nation in Limbo and re- founding it through nation-founding objects like the wall hanging tapestries, and also we introduced stained glass to allude to a performative remnant of the old world. This is an introduction to The Elder, a fur clad entity who first made his debut at the FWWOA Saga tapestries [2012-13].

“My intention in creating The Elder was to establish some kind of spiritual [by way of mythologizing a previous leader] “floating signifier” for this new nation. The goat has always been a spirit-animal in my visual culture: it is the key that unlocks the various stages in ones covenant with the ancestors and spiritual world e.g. after blood is spilt in death, the act of blood-letting moves from that of the maternal birth to that of the goat as an introduction to ancestors, circumcision, illness, death and to unlock the passage to the ancestral world. The goat is king. The goat can also play tricks on you: in one case I know that if the goat does not cry out during the bloodletting the ancestors are ignoring you ... this trick leads to the community having to introspect. The Elder then takes on the shape-shifting character by means inserting it in the classical mythology of the Pan ... and that of art history”.

THOMAS PRINGLE HALL, MONUMENT FRIDAY 3 JULY 18:00 ARTIST Athi-Patra Ruga SATURDAY 4 JULY 14:00 & 18:00 PRODUCER WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery SUNDAY 5 JULY 14:00 & 18:00 STAGE MANAGER Pule Setlhako DURATION 40min PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Pamella Dlungwana AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 16 VIDEO Ben Johnson MUSIC Nicholas Van Reenen TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 VOICE OVER Athi-Patra Ruga COSTUME Unathi Mkhonto (for Athi-Patra Ruga & Studio)

PERFORMERS: STUDENTS FROM THE RHODES UNIVERSITY DRAMA DEPARTMENT 103

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH DANCE FORUM AND GAVIN KRASTIN PRESENTS

ON SEEING RED AND OTHER FANTASIES

CONCEPT, DIRECTION refuge of make-believe and illogic (a stage of sorts) in rejection and AND DESIGN: Gavin Krastin anger towards current gloomy contexts. CREATION: Gavin Krastin and Alan Parker LIGHTING DESIGN: Gavin Krastin and Wesley Deintje With references to forms that have stemmed from bleak times and SPACE MANAGEMENT: Wesley Deintje promote a sense of escapism, like Disney, Dadaism, Surrealism SOUND DESIGN: Shaun Acker and Cabaret, the two bodies attempt to revel in an experience of (in addition to sourced music) an alternative composition and logic. However, due to external pressures such a space of frivolity and illusion cannot holdout to CAST: the stirrings of dystopia and doubt that inevitably seep in, forcing GAVIN KRASTIN the two to continuously destroy, reconstruct and territorialise their ALAN PARKER architecture and positioning of utopia.

traddling the worlds of theatre, performance, installation Through their performative actions of establishing and destroying, Sand choreography, Gavin Krastin’s award-winning artistic of fleeing only to return, and their need for escapism, the absurdities practice explores the body’s representation, limitation and of war, difference and ideologies are critiqued; that in the desire to operation in alternative, layered spaces. Working with long-time escape, the need to reject, and in the seams of the fantastical, one is collaborator and partner, Alan Parker, the social underpinnings and most confronted with the feared, the crippling and the anarchic. philosophies of space inspire a questioning of operational systems, thresholds, proximities and the politics of boundary-crossings and transgressions (and the myth making thereof) in their work.

Amidst the current climate of greedy organisations of power, developing wars, corrupt governments and bio-medical disasters, On seeing red and other fantasies offers a ridiculous, yet reflective and angry escape into a land of arresting images and nonsense. CROWN HALL (meet at Drostdy Arch) Fractured and fantastical, the work charts the abandonment of one’s TUESDAY 7 TO SATURDAY 11 JULY 18:00 daily dystopian terrestrial existence in an effort to flee from humanity, the DURATION 1hr (no interval) contestation of land and impending global chaos and to confront AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 17 (NV) oneself as a possible human war machine. TICKETS Full price R70 Concessions R65 Oscillating between artifice and authenticity, themes of anger, Ticktet price includes transport from Drostdy Arch to Crown Hall tipping points and the ridiculousness of blind rage are probed. Two and return. Meet at Drostdy Arch at 17:45. bodies held within a dystopian landscape attempt to construct a 104

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE 2015 STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST EXHIBITION HISTORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEART

ARTIST Kemang Wa Lehulere BIOGRAPHY

Wa Lehulere (b.1984) lives and works in Cape Town, and has a BA Fine Arts degree from the University of the Witwatersrand (2011). Solo exhibitions have emang Wa Lehulere’s work finds its form in taken place at Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg (2014; 2012); Lombard- Kseveral media, including installation, text, video, Freid Projects, New York (2013); the Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg (2011) and the drawing and performance. His work engages with Association of Visual Arts in Cape Town (2009). Notable group exhibitions include the spaces between personal narrative and collective the 8th Berlin Biennale (2014); Public Intimacy: Art and Social Life in South Africa history, between processes of amnesia and archive, all at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014); The Ungovernables, the while transitioning between a dream state and an the second triennial exhibition of the New Museum in New York (2012); A Terrible insomnious reality. Beauty is Born, the 11th Biennale de Lyon at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (2011) and When Your Lips Are My Ears, Our Bodies Become Radios History will Break your Heart is an exhibition that takes at the Kunsthalle Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland (2010). Wa its cue from the work of Gladys Mgudlandlu, Ernest Lehulere won the inaugural Spier Contemporary Award in 2007, the MTN New Mancoba, RRR Dlomo and Nat Nakasa. Looking Contemporaries Award in 2010, the Tollman Award for the Visual Arts in 2012 and at these deceased South African born artists and the International Tiberius Art Award Dresden in 2014; he was awarded the 15th writers Wa Lehulere creates a fractured narrative Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel in 2013. in an attempt to recall past moments, artworks and literature as a way of rethinking the present. Employing strategies of re-enactment the exhibition MONUMENT GALLERY consists of Mgudlandu's and Mancoba's work in Daily 09:00 to 18:00 relation to Wa Lehulere's. 105

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH ART SOURCE SOUTH AFRICA PRESENTS FRAGILE

HISTORIES,

FUGITIVE

LIVES

ARTIST Keith Dietrich CURATOR Les Cohn PROJECT MANAGEMENT Art Source South Africa

eith Dietrich is a South Africa artist specialising in the artist book genre. Dietrich Dietrich says, “The images map and inscribe pain Kobtained his MA in Fine Arts (cum laude) in 1983 and his D Litt et Phil in Art and suffering over the body, as a reminder of our History in 1993, both at the University of South Africa (Unisa). Currently he holds traumatic past, folded into these bodies, organs, and the position of Chair of the Department of Visual Arts and Director of the Centre texts, are the traces of our complex hybrid ancestral for Comic, Illustrative and Book Arts at Stellenbosch University. After exploring his interconnections.” interests in various artistic media, Dietrich has turned his attention to artist’s books or bookworks. These explore the rich historical and archaeological arena in which Dietrich has participated in over thirty community successive power struggles played themselves out. interaction projects in Southern Africa and is the recipient of several prestigious awards. His work is Dietrich’s solo exhibition Fragile histories, fugitive lives, examines the interplay represented in 34 corporate and public collections in between histories and social and political differences in South Africa, through the South Africa and abroad. interaction between words, images and materials. In exploring this Dietrich has tried to reconcile the issues of diversity, the past and the present. One of Dietrich’s main influences in this project is the global and geographical position occupied by the Cape of Good Hope during the eighteenth century, and the unique globalised composition of its inhabitants.

The exhibition includes an artist’s book consisting of two volumes bound together, Fragile histories, fugitive lives | Justice and injustice at the Cape, 1700 – 1800 (2012) and four complex photomontage triptychs titled Fragile histories: Book One, Book Two, Book Three and Book Four. Theses works focus more specifically on crime and punishment and particularly the subjugation of the human body, informed by NTSIKANA GALLERY, MONUMENT the 1,220 court trials that took place in the Cape between 1692 and 1803. Daily 09:00 to 18:00 106

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE GOODMAN GALLERY PRESENTS JODI BIEBER’S EXHIBITION BETWEEN DARKNESS AND LIGHT

etween Darkness and Light is Jodi BBieber’s first major mid-career retrospective and includes a selection of Bieber’s work from 1993 to the present. In 2014, the show travelled to South Africa, to the Wits Art Museum, for the first time after being exhibited at two major venues in Germany – Stadhaus Ulm and Museum Goch – between 2012 and 2013.

The exhibition includes close to 100 photographs from Bieber’s most significant body of work. These include Las Canas, Real Beauty, Soweto; Between Dogs & Wolves; Going Home – Illegality and Repatriation South Africa / ; David, Women who murdered their husbands and a multimedia installation from her Survivors of domestic violence series will also form part of the images on display.

This exhibition provides the public with the unique opportunity to see the diverse range of Bieber’s work, from her celebrated work to her rarely shown independent series. Bieber’s work defies categories such as photojournalism and visual art, making this exhibition which features several works from the original Between Darkness and Light exhibition a must.

GRAHAMSTOWN GALLERY ALBANY HISTORY MUSEUM Daily 09:00 to 17:00 107

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH SMAC GALLERY PRESENTS THEMBA hemba Shibase is a contemporary South African Tartist who interrogates current political and social issues within a pan-African context. Concentrating primarily on painting, drawing and mixed media work on paper, Shibase addresses current, generation- SHIBASE defining issues such as: leadership; post-colonial and ‘post-dictatorial’ power structures; masculinity and patriarchy as well as identity and gender politics. SOLO In his unique and fresh visual language, Shibase contemplates the complex challenges facing a young, aspirational generation that grapples with culture and heritage in a contemporary, rapidly changing world. Presenting his subjects in a direct and confrontational EXHIBITION manner, Shibase confronts stereotyping and notions of an ‘authentic’ African culture, probing Africa’s fraught colonial history and the homogenizing colonial gaze which continues to inform racial identities in Africa. ARTIST Themba Shibase CURATORS Baylon Sandri & Marelize van Zyl Themba Shibase was born in Port Shepstone in 1980 PROJECT MANAGEMENT SMAC Gallery and is currently based in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal. He completed his Master of Technology degree in Fine Art at the Durban University of Technology where he presently lectures in Painting, Drawing and Art Theory, whilst pursuing his PhD.

Over the past 4-5 years, Shibase has presented several solo exhibitions in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and recently in New York. Shibase was nominated as one of the finalists for the MTN New Contemporaries Award in 2008 as well as the Spier Contemporary Award in 2007. Recent group exhibitions include Harbouring Histories at DUT Gallery (Durban University of Technology), Us at Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) and New Spell at David Krut, New York. In 2014, Shibase took part in Dialogues with Masters: Visual Perspectives on Two Decades of Democracy, curated by Thembinkosi Goniwe as a special project for the FNB Joburg Art Fair. Themba Shibase is a member of various organisations, including the African Arts Centre and the Arts for Human Rights Trust. He is also an online news editor for the Art for Humanity organisation.

GRAHAMSTOWN GALLERY, ALBANY HISTORY MUSEUM Daily 09:00 to 17:00

AGE RECOMMENDATION PG16 108

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS BATTLEGROUND

CURATOR Michael Godby CHARLES BELL’S REPRESENTATION OF THE WAR OF THE AXE, THE 7TH FRONTIER/ WAR OF DISPOSSESSION, 1846, IN HISTORICAL AND MODERN CONTEXTS THIS EXHIBITION IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF THE JOHN AND CHARLES BELL TRUST

ichael Godby’s exhibition is a response to the challenge of newspaper reports of the war which will be reproduced as text Mshowing Charles Bell’s 60 drawings of the War of the Axe in panels in the exhibition. And installations of muskets and swords Grahamstown, the very territory that was fought over during the from the period will make the suggestion that Bell’s drawings were Wars of Dispossession, and to viewers, most of whom would have every bit as much an offensive weapon as the actual instruments of been constructed as the ‘enemy’ in Bell’s account of the war. war.

The challenge is met in two ways. First, the drawings themselves The second part of the exhibition comprises recent representations are contextualised in a series of installations. Bell had been in of the War of the Axe and related Wars of Dispossession. These Grahamstown before the war broke out adjudicating land claims include new versions of historical events, by both black and relating to the 1820 settlers: display of contemporary surveying white artists, that give a very different account of the wars. Other equipment and relevant maps will underline the point that first works isolate the pictorial language of colonial artists, notably and foremost, this war was about the colonial acquisition of land. steel engraving and perspective, to show how these elements are Similarly, Bell’s image of the Xhosa represents a significant change implicated in the colonial project. Other works again challenge the from earlier idealised views and is derived in large measure from construction of masculinity inherent in Bell’s, and others’ accounts contemporary racial theories that can be illustrated from books of the wars. And several works lament the tragic waste of life that of the time. Such prejudices are also apparent in many of the occurred in these wars.

STANDARD BANK GALLERY, ALBANY HISTORY MUSEUM Daily 09:00 to 17:00 109

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS MONIQUE PELSER’S EXHIBITION

CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER onique Pelser was educated at the Market MPhotography Workshop in 1996 and she furthered her studies by completing a BFA 2005 and was awarded an MFA with distinction in 2006 from Rhodes ARTIST STATEMENT University. Pelser’s masters submission Roles awarded her the accolade by Art South Africa as Bright Young Conversations with my Father is a continuous Artist for 2007. dialogue (2011 – to date) between myself and the objects, images, sound recordings and documents In 2009 she won the Tierney Fellowship for I inherited in 2010 after my father died of a rare photography, which led her to being awarded a full motor neuron disease which rendered him unable scholarship to participate in the intensive 10-month to speak for the last year and a half of his life. The residency PhotoGlobal programme at the School ‘Conversation’ aims to manage and deconstruct the of Visual Arts in New York in 2012/13. In 2014 she found footage and objects as a means of looking at co-edited a book with Lisa Elmaleh commemorating and understanding trauma. the 10th anniversary of the Fellowship. The book illustrates a collection of works made from 2004 -2014 Both my paternal grandfather and my father were by photographers from participating institutions from South African Police (SAP). My father was a good around the world. man, he was a good father, he was also a product of his environment. In my investigation I turn the Pelser was part of a group of emerging African forensic gaze onto the evidence of my father as photographers to attend the Simon Njami initiated official. This act of scrutinizing, archiving, layering and portfolio reviews and master classes around Africa manipulating allows me to engage with the father as 2008 - 2012. In 2011 she co-curated the show Témoin the allegorical figure for patriarchy and by extension with Sammy Baloji. Témoin opened at the Recontres du authority. Bamako, Mali in 2011 and has since toured to eleven centers across Africa, the exhibition tour ended in Harare in 2014.

ALUMNI GALLERY, ALBANY MUSEUM Daily 09:00 to 17:00 110

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL’S INAUGURAL FEATURED CURATOR PROGRAMME PRESENTS NINE O’CLOCK

ARTIST Simon Gush FEATURED CURATOR Lerato Bereng

LERATO BERENG has been selected to be the 2015 Featured Curator in a new National Arts Festival initiative that will broaden the spotlight on a generation of young and dynamic curators.

Bereng was born in Maseru, Lesotho in 1986. In 2007 she received a Bachelor of Fine Art and in 2014 graduated with a Masters in Fine Art (with distinction) from Rhodes University, Grahamstown. She is currently a curator at Stevenson gallery in Johannesburg. From 2007 to 2009 Bereng was selected as one of five young curators in CAPE’s Young CURATOR STATEMENT: curator’s Programme for which she curated “Thank You Driver”, an exhibition NINE O’CLOCK on mini-bus taxis as part of the Cape ‘09 Biennale. Recent projects include: ocated on Gunfire Hill next to the 1820 Settler’s Monument, Fort Selwyn is a Conversations at Morija (Morija, Lesotho Lhistorically loaded site. From its inception the function and meaning of the space 2013), Out of thin Air (Cape Town, have been in constant transition: initially having been built as a colonial fort for the 2012) and Featuring Simplicity as an Royal Artillery, the site was later unsuccessfully converted into a communication tower irrational fear (Cape Town, 2010). At the with the installation of a semaphore mast which failed to function as a result of the National Arts Festival this year, she will prevailing weather conditions of Grahamstown. curate Nine O’Clock, an exhibition with a selection of works from Simon Gush’s Similarly a project by artist Simon Gush titled Red examines the breakdown of labour including elements from his project titled relations and a massive failure in communication at the Mercedes Benz plant in Red (2014). East London in 1990 that resulted in a wildcat sleep-in strike which shut down the factory for nine weeks. That same year, prior to the strike the factory workers had successfully motivated to management for the production of a red Mercedes Benz for Nelson Mandela after his release from prison. The workers gave their time and skill, FORT SELWYN volunteering to work extra hours without additional pay, whilst the company donated DAILY 09:00 to 17:00 the car parts.

In the late 1800’s Fort Selwyn was used to fire a ‘call-to-work’ gunshot at nine o’clock every morning which served to remind the town’s people to work. Simon Gush’s practice examines this subject of ‘work’. He has dealt with historical and contemporary questions of labour, looking at South African labour relations and Calvinist theory around labour and its ideology that links ‘work’ to being morally ‘good’.

The exhibition will comprise amongst other works, Simon Gush’s reproduction of the red Mercedes Benz made for Nelson Mandela which will be exhibited on the grounds. For the duration of the National Arts Festival a performative gesture will take place at Fort Selwyn at nine o’clock every morning. 111

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE HIGH COMMISSION OF CANADA PRESENTS FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN BROAD STROKES WINNING CARTOONS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ROAR HAGEN, CARTOON COMPETITION EXHIBITION ON THE NORWAY, 2010 SUBJECT OF FREE EXPRESSION

ssembled by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO ARISTIDES ESTEBAN Aand the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom, GUERRERO (ARES), this travelling exhibition displays the winners of the CUBA, 2009 international cartoon competition on free expression since 2001.

The exhibition features award-winning international editorial cartoons. The visual nature of the exhibition encourages visitors to think about the complexity of freedom of expression and what it means to them.

Editorial or political cartooning has a long and honourable history. In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly declared 3 May as World Press Freedom Day to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and to remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Day is also now used to draw attention to the dangers faced by journalists when reporting the news. In 2010, 87 journalists were killed, while a further 51 were kidnapped, and more than one thousand media workers including cartoonists were physically attacked or threatened with violence while doing their job. Since 2001, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom (CCWPF) have organised an annual international competition for editorial cartoonists in conjunction with the awarding of the CCWPF Press Freedom Award to a Canadian journalist who has suffered in the cause of press freedom. Over 700 cartoons are received each year, and the winners are honoured in Ottawa on World Press Freedom Day. The exhibit Freedom of Expression in Broad Strokes presents the best editorial cartoons received since the beginning of the competition. MIHAI IGNAT, ROMANIA, 2003 This exhibition shows how the clever cartoonist often uses humour or a nuanced message to escape the direct attention of the censor. Cartoonists today are a threatened MICHAEL species! Many have lost their jobs as newspapers close. Yet DE ADDER, editorial cartoonists remain a pillar of a free press. CANADA, 2006

TO BE CONFIRMED DAILY 19:00 to 17:00 AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 15 112 THE EASTERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF SPORTS, RECREATION, ARTS & CULTURE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE EASTERN CAPE VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION

“ Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another “ Nelson Mandela

n Nelson Mandela, the Eastern Cape Ihas produced an international icon whose greatness lies in the fact that he was a visionary, a democrat and a leader who conducted himself with humility and respect.

Tata Madiba as he is affectionately called by all South Africans spent nearly seven decades of his lifetime in the struggle against inequality caused by the former Nationalist government. Despite all the hardships that he experienced, the world was amazed by his forgiveness, humility and good leadership.

The world was inspired by his profound message, “Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humans will be proud of.”

The artists of the Eastern Cape, through their creative hands, have devised an exhibition that supports the promotion of social cohesion, forgiveness, nation building and the advocacy for a positive analysis to build a better society for the generations to come. The artists will use their constitutional right of freedom of expression to convey their thoughts, perceptions and understanding of our democracy and underlining all their work is a deepened understanding of a respect for human rights.

ALBANY HISTORY MUSEUM DAILY 09:00 – 17:00 113 THE EASTERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF SPORTS, RECREATION, ARTS & CULTURE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE EASTERN CAPE PROVINCIAL CRAFT COLLECTION

he Department of Sport, TRecreation, Arts and Culture in partnership with the Eastern Cape Provincial Arts and Culture Council and the Eastern Cape Development Corporation, as the home of the Small Business Development Agency, present the Provincial Craft Collection in celebration of Eastern Cape legends, in particular, former President Nelson Mandela.

This collection of craftwork is an annual highlight of the National Arts Festival and serves as an excellent representation of the talent and skill in the Eastern Cape. Buying authentic craftwork draws one into a close involvement with a particular community as every artefact has a story to tell.

Every individual has a creative potential. Many have discovered the pleasure and sense of accomplishment from being involved in the creative process. Some create during leisure time while others do it out of necessity. Whatever the drive, excellent craftsmanship remains the key that unlocks the door to the unrivalled creative experience of the Eastern Cape that is reflected in the Provincial Craft Collection.

Through this exhibition, the Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture and its partners celebrate twenty one years of democracy and sixty years of the Freedom Charter which states that “the door of education and culture shall be open to all South Africans”.

VILLAGE GREEN DAILY 09:00 – 17:00 114 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL OFFERS ART ENTHUSIASTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND A SERIES OF ART WALKABOUTS IN THE COMPANY OF ARTISTS OR VISUAL ARTS EXPERTS ART WALKABOUTS * DENOTES THAT THE ARTIST / CURATOR WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE HISTORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEART

MONUMENT GALLERY

Friday 3 July 10:00* Sunday 5 July 12:00* Saturday 11 July 14:00

FROM: HISTORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEART BETWEEN DARKNESS AND LIGHT

GRAHAMSTOWN GALLERY

Thursday 2 July 16:00* Friday 3 July 16:00* Wednesday 8 July 12:00 FROM: BATTLEGROUND

FROM: BETWEEN DARKNESS AND LIGHT FRAGILE HISTORIES, FROM: THEMBA SIBASHE FUGITIVE LIVES FROM: FRAGILE HISTORIES, NTSIKANA GALLERY, FUGITIVE LIVES MONUMENT

Friday 3 July 12:00* Saturday 4 July 10:00* Friday 10 July 14:00

NINE O’CLOCK

FROM: CONVERSATIONS FORT SELWYN WITH MY FATHER Monday 6 July 10:00* THEMBA SHIBASE: SOLO EXHIBITION Wednesday 8 July 14:00 Friday 10 July 12:00 THE STUDIO GALLERY, RHODES FINE ART DEPARTMENT

BATTLEGROUND Friday 3 July 14:00* Saturday 4 July 12:00* STANDARD BANK GALLERY, Tuesday 7 July 10:00 ALBANY HISTORY MUSEUM Sunday 5 July 10:00 CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER Monday 6 July 12:00 Thursday 9 July 14:00 ALUMNI GALLERY, ALBANY HISTORY MUSEUM

Sunday 5 July 14:00* EASTERN CAPE VISUAL ARTS Tuesday 7 July 12:00* Thursday 9 July 10:00* FOYER, ALBANY HISTORY MUSEUM

Monday 6 July 14:00* WALKABOUT SCHEDULE Wednesday 8 July 10:00* DURATION 50min Saturday 11 July 12:00 MEETING POINT Venue for each exhibition TICKETS R30

THINK!FEST 2015 #cocreateSA is a platform for South African and Dutch counterparts to exchange ideas and innovations for a sustainable future. If we work together, we can make a difference and co-create solutions for local challenges.

Full details of the programme, speaker Duration: Tickets for all events: R30 biographies and topic descriptions will be All talks are 1 hour; Panel discussions available in the Think!Fest Brochure. and debates are 1 hour 30 minutes 2015 THINK!FEST CONVENOR: ANTHEA GARMAN

THINK!FEST DAILY SCHEDULE – ALL EVENTS ARE IN THE BLUE THEATRE, EDEN GROVE (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED)

Friday 3 July Monday 6 July continued Thursday 9 July 11:00* When I Was Fish: Tales Of An Ichthyologist - Mike Bruton 14:00 Free? Prior? Consent? - LRC screening of Shore Break - 10:00 Local Histories, Present Realities - (123) Odette Geldenhuys & Wilmien Wicomb (120) Noor Nieftagodien (120) 12:00 The Role of Urban Art on the Streets Today - 17:00** The Pipes, The Pipes Are Calling (124) 11:00* Shakespeare’s Word Play - Roy Sargeant & Cale Waddacor (119) 17:30 Knowledge-Power: The Debate (118) Diane Wilson (122) 14:00 A Chain of Voices: The Prose Oeuvre of André Brink - 12:00 Satire and Parody - Dario Milo (117) Dr Godfrey Meintjies (122) Tuesday 7 July 14:00 Search For Authenticity: Composing in SA (120) 10:00 Art & Resistance - Manfred Zylla (118) 17:30 State of the State Debate (120) Saturday 4 July 10:00** How to do a Show at the Edinburgh Fringe (124) 10:00 IFAS / IFX Roundtable - Freedom of Expression (117) 11:00* 150 Years of Wagner’s Tristan - Jamie McGregor Friday 10 July 11:00* Grafitti South Africa - Cale Waddacor (123) (130) 10:00 The kykNet/Mnet Jans Rautenbach Interview (121) 14:00 Work - Anti-Work - Lerato Bereng (123) 12:00 Being a Born Free - Vanessa Malila (119) 11:00* Short.Sharp.Stories: Incredible Journey (123) 17:30 Red - A Documentary Film by Simon Gush (121) 14:00 Race Trouble in Everyday Life - Kevin Durrheim 11:30 Conrad Koch: Speaking Up (117) (119) 14:00 Myth of Marketplace of Ideas - Pierre de Vos (117) Sunday 5 July 16:00* Florence - Reading by Patricia Boyer (122) 16:00 Cartoon Competition (123) 10:00 Public Spaces - Iain EWOK Robinson (119) 17:00** 15 Fantastic Songs From 2014 (124) 17:00** Peter Klatzow - My Music (121) 12:00 Access to Information & Online Space - 17:30 Troubling Race - Again And Again (119) 17:30 Satire: The Most Sane response? Debate (117) Gabriella Razzana (118) 14:00 Our Right to Know - Siviwe Mdoda (118) Wednesday 8 July Saturday 11 July 14:30 DALRO / SAMRO / Debate - Media & Tolerance (117) 10:00 Limits of Liberty - Gavin MacFadyen & 10:00 Woza Sisi - Dahlia Maubane (119) 17:00** Blues had a Baby, they named it Rock ‘n Roll (124) Sarah Harrison (118) 12:00 Getting the Last Laugh on Cecil John Rhodes - 17:30 Redefining Urban Spaces: Debate (119) 11:00 The Zulu Crush Dialogues (Rec Centre) (125) Justice Albie Sachs (117) 12:00 The Administration of Power- Ivor Chipkin (120) 14:00 What Is “African Literature” Good For? - Monday 6 July 14:00 Loyiso Gola - The Thin Line (116) Ranka Primoric (122) 10:00* Odyssey of an African Opera Singer - 16:00 Functionality of SA’s ‘Dysfunctional’ Schools - 16:00 The Musical Deeds ff Dr SJ Khosa (120) Musa Ngqungwana (122) Ashley Westaway (120) 16:00* New Territories - Greg Homann (122) 10:00 Ndifuna Ukwazi: Think, Act, Lead - Shaun Russell 17:00** Political Song at 33 & 1/3rd Revs per minute (124) (118) Sunday 12 July 12:00 A Meeting between South American & South African * = Seminar Room 1, Eden Grove 11:00 Soft Vengeance - Film & Talk - Albie Sachs (121) Filmmakers (121) ** = Listening Lounge, Monument SATIRE, CENSORSHIP AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION When politics gets rough and talking gets tough, the fools come out to play to do and say the things the rest of us can’t for fear of being arrested (or shunned or pilloried in public). Who’d have thought that in the post-apartheid era we would need the satirists (of all kinds) to bring some sanity to our public sphere?

POLITICAL SONG AT 331/3 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE – RICHARD HASLOP WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 17:00 MONUMENT RESTAURANT

Whether scathingly satirical, laugh out loud funny or as serious as your life, politically- orientated song writing has always had the power to upset those who might have a guilty LOYISO GOLA – THE THIN LINE conscience. Richard Haslop, a WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 14:00 practising labour lawyer who Loyiso Gola is the co-creator and anchor of the satirical news has been involved with music television series Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola on e.tv and eNCA for most of his life, singles out which was launched in 2010. In 2012 he was named one of the Mail songwriters from around the world and across the decades who & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans. Men’s Health describes Gola set up their targets and knock them down with unerring accuracy, as having “divisive mass appeal” due to the openly critical nature of sometimes at considerable personal cost. Haslop presents the his humour, and being “a genuine thinker masquerading as a fool Listening Lounge from Sunday 5 to Wednesday 8 July at 17:00 daily and the reluctant voice of a cynical generation”. at the Monument Restaurant. SATIRE, CENSORSHIP 117 AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

SATIRE AND PARODY: THE SATIRE: THE MOST SANE AND LEGAL PROTECTIONS AND RATIONAL RESPONSE? A DEBATE RESTRICTIONS – DARIO MILO FRIDAY 10 JULY 17:30 Pierre de Vos, Dario Milo, Albie Sachs and Conrad Koch will be THURSDAY 9 JULY 12:00 joined by representatives from the media and others to discuss the valuable role satire plays in the post-apartheid public sphere. Dario Milo is a partner in the dispute-resolution practice at Webber Wentzel, where he specialises in media, GETTING THE LAST LAUGH ON communications and information law, and commercial CECIL JOHN RHODES – and tax dispute resolution. JUSTICE ALBIE SACHS He authored Defamation and SATURDAY 11 JULY 12:00 Freedom of Speech (OUP) and has represented a number of Justice Albie Sachs is an activist and Member of the ANC. He helped high profile arts cases, including draft the ANC’s Code of Conduct and statutes, is member of the the cartoonist Zapiro, the Constitutional Committee and National Executive Committee of Goodman Gallery in The Spear the ANC, a Director of Research for the Ministry of Justice, a retired claim and ventriloquist Conrad Constitutional Court Judge and an author. He sits a member of Koch. numerous Boards, including the National Arts Festival Board.

CONRAD KOCH: SPEAKING UP ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: FRIDAY 10 JULY 11:30 Ventriloquist and comedian FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION SATURDAY 4 JULY 10:00 Conrad Koch talks about freedom of expression in a profession that The French Institute of South Africa and Freedom of Expression relies on the ability to talk openly Institute join forces to present a round table about press freedom and ask difficult questions. Koch’s with guests from Radio France Internationale (RFI) and members puppet Chester Missing famously of the South African media. On 7 January 2015, gunmen attacked became the first puppet to win a the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing 12 court battle when the Randburg people including the editor and celebrated cartoonists. The satirical Magistrate’s Court set aside an magazine has a long history of publishing intentionally controversial interim protection order secured and provocative cartoons and covers. The attack on Charlie Hebdo by Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr represented an attack on media freedom and a violation of the rights gagging the puppet from tweeting to free expression. However, beyond the solidarity shown by the about him. rest of the world for the victims, the attack reignited long standing debate on how freedom of expression is contextually defined in ways that differ between countries. On a broader scale, the role of the media and particularly those who are tasked with editorial MYTH OF THE FREE decision making is today increasingly defined by local constructs such as cultural sensitivity, political partisanship, legal norms, social MARKETPLACE values which increasingly define media freedom and free expression OF IDEAS – as a less universal principle. PIERRE DE VOS WHY VALUES MATTER WHEN CAN THE MEDIA IMPROVE DECIDING ON THE LIMITS OF TOLERANCE AND UNDERSTANDING FREE SPEECH FRIDAY 10 JULY 14:00 AMONG WORLD RELIGIONS? PRESENTED BY THE WORDFEST DALRO/SAMRO COLLOQUIUM Pierre de Vos is the Claude Leon SUNDAY 5 JULY 14:30 Foundation Chair in Constitutional SEMINAR ROOM 2, EDEN GROVE Governance at the University of Cape Town. He has published widely on issues of constitutional law, from Maggy Thatcher once said: “Publicity is housing to marriage equality and citizenship rights and co-edited the oxygen of terrorists.” Is there more South African Constitutional Law in Context (OUP). His blog to the matter than that? A distinguished www.constitutionallyspeaking.co.za offers a constitutional panel of experts from widely different backgrounds explores the perspective on contemporary South African social and political complex issue of press freedom and the need to know in a world issues and is widely read and syndicated in the Daily Maverick. where the number of religious adherents is escalating rapidly and coming into closer contact than ever before. 118 SECRECY AND SURVEILLANCE

Paradoxically we have more information than we have ever had before at the tips of our fingers and we have the power to pass it around in microseconds; but the same technology that gives us that fantastic ability is also used to constrain, to hide and to keep tabs on who we are, what we want to know and what we do with information.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE-POWER: THE DEBATE AND THE ONLINE SPACE – MONDAY 6 JULY 17:30 GABRIELLA RAZZANO “Knowledge is power” is a truism and even if knowing enhances SUNDAY 5 JULY 12:00 transparency and accountability we still don’t see radical transformation in governance; Wikileaks caused outrage but hasn’t Gabriella Razzano is the Head of Legal fundamentally changed who governs and how they operate in the Research at the Open Democracy Advice US. We discuss what kinds of uses of knowledge need to be put in Centre and the Director of Policy and place to make sure that democracies work for the people and not Strategy at Code for South Africa. She is the powerful only. a legal expert on access to information and the online space and was one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans to watch. In this talk she looks at understanding the limitations and opportunities for furthering transparency in a modern world.

OUR RIGHT TO KNOW – LIMITS OF LIBERTY – GAVIN MACFADYEN AND SARAH HARRISON SIVIWE MDODA WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 10:00 SUNDAY 5 JULY 14:00 Limits of Liberty is a groundbreaking anti-censorship festival started Siviwe Mdoda, National Co-ordinator of in 1993 as a project of the Weekly Mail & Guardian Film Festival and the Right2Know Campaign, focuses on the initiated by festival director Liza Key. The festival, which challenged secrecy bill and our constitutional right to access to information and and provoked its audiences for three consecutive years, included tells us how Right2Know goes about informing us and attempting to among its guests Marjorie Heins (American Civil Liberties Union), protect our ‘right to know’. Sally Sampson (British Board of Film Classification), Frank Panford (freedom of expression lawyer) and the filmmakers Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) and Paul Schrader (The Last Temptation of Christ). Liza Key helps resurrect the Limits of Liberty festival as part of the 2015 Film Festival programme – see page 128 for details of films being screened in this series. In this taalk, Gavin MacFadyen (Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism at Goldsmiths in NDIFUNA UKWAZI – London) and Sarah Harrison – (British journalist, legal researcher, and WikiLeaks section editor) discuss today’s limits of liberty in the THINK, ACT, LEAD – face of spiralling cyber surveillance. SHAUN RUSSELL MONDAY 6 JULY 10:00 ART AND RESISTANCE

Shaun Russell, self-confessed social activist WITH MANFRED ZYLLA and tech junkie, focuses on the challenges PRESENTED BY THE FILM FESTIVAL of getting access to information to all South MONDAY 6 JULY 12:00 Africans and the role that Ndifuna Ukwazi plays in attempting to alleviate these Manfred Zylla will be part of a panel challenges and make people more aware of examining the position of “art” as a legislation and how it affects them. method of resistance to coercion by state, religious, financial, censorial and corporate power. See page 126 of this programme for details of the films being screened in this series. PUBLIC SPACES 119

Privatisation of shared space is the new normal in South Africa. Everytime you’re in ‘public’ you’re probably stepping on ground owned, managed and policed by a private entity, or one doing a public entity’s job for it. This affects and constrains life, art and work, particularly for millions of people in urban areas. THE ROLE OF URBAN ART WOZA SISI – DAHLIA MAUBANE PRESENTED BY RHODES UNIVERSITY’S AUETSA CONFERENCE ON THE STREETS TODAY – SATURDAY 11 JULY 10:00

CALE WADDACOR Woza Sisi – loosely translated FRIDAY 3 JULY 12:00 as “Come sister” – is a photo Cale Waddacor, photographer and graffiti series exploring how women artist, talks about the urban spaces he street hairstylists negotiate, encountered in researching and producing navigate and shape complex his book Graffiti South Africa and gives us demarcated trading zones. It some insight into his thoughts on graffiti, its looks into ways in which the history, its purpose and its place. During the women position themselves Festival, Waddacor will be creating murals in and how they use and Grahamstown with local artists – watch out negotiate urban spaces. for his handiwork around the city. Woza Sisi aims to uncover a group of women street hairstylists’ urban experience and explore their relationship with the city of Johannesburg and the economy. Dahlia Maubane is a photographer and multimedia designer affiliated with The Market Photo Workshop, a division of IAIN EWOK ROBINSON The Market Theatre Foundation (Johannesburg). The photographic SUNDAY 5 JULY 10:00 exhibition Woza Sisi will be on display throughout the Festival Iain Robinson, better known as EWOK, is a well-known Durban- upstairs in the Eden Grove complex. based hip-hop and spoken word activist, who has effectively used these as well as other art forms to galvanise REDEFINING URBAN PUBLIC people on a wide range of issues. He uses aerosol SPACES: A DEBATE artwork and graffiti-styled SUNDAY 5 JULY 17:30 murals to draw attention to a range of issues, Visual and performance artists, graffiti artists, city planners and usually working through urban warriors get together for a scintillating debate on urban public recognised civil society spaces in modern South Africa. Catch Cale Waddacor, Ian Ewok organisations, painting Robinson, representatives from Tokolos Stencils and Ism-Skism, around their concerns performance and visual artists as they discuss the repurposing of and actions. urban public spaces. NON-RACIALISM – THE POSSIBILITIES BEING A BORN FREE – RACE TROUBLE IN EVERYDAY LIFE VANESSA MALILA AND DOMESTIC LABOUR – THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND KEVIN DURRHEIM MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FACING TUESDAY 7 JULY 14:00 YOUNG SOUTH AFRICANS Kevin Durrheim is professor of psychology at TUESDAY 7 JULY 12:00 the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He writes on Vanessa Malila is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Media and topics related to racism, segregation and social Citizenship Project based at the School of Journalism and Media change. His publications include Race Trouble Studies at Rhodes University. Her research focus is on young South (Durrheim, Mtose and Brown, 2011) and Racial Encounter (Durrheim Africans and the relationship they have with the media in South and Dixon, 2005). In this talk Durrheim examines how we use ideas Africa, and how that influences their political, civic and personal about race and racism to conduct ourselves, knowing that we are identities. In her talk, Malila examines the so-called Born Frees, also objects of racialisation. He will show how race plays out in the generation of people born after 1994 who are thought to have domestic labour contexts, using the infamous Free State University escaped the atrocities and limitations of the apartheid system. Reitz Residence ‘racist video’ as a case study.

TROUBLING RACE – AGAIN AND AGAIN: A DEBATE TUESDAY 7 JULY 17:30

Nomalanga Mkhize, Vanessa Malila, Kevin Durrheim and other high profile speakers will be chaired in a fiery debate by Journalism and New Media Studies Professor Anthea Garman as they tackle this troubling issue. 120 STATE OF THE STATE

Many commentators focus closely on politics, politicians and parties to give us clues about whether our democracy is working but this discussion will draw on insights from other sectors of society which might be more illuminating about change, crisis and future possibilities than just the political arena. Each of these speakers gives us fascinating and crucial insights into the state of our state from their particular points of view. FREE? PRIOR? CONSENT? THE FUNCTIONALITY OF SOUTH ODETTE GELDENHUYS AFRICA’S ‘DYSFUNCTIONAL’ SCHOOLS - ASHLEY WESTAWAY & WILMIEN WICOMB WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 16:00 MONDAY 6 JULY 14:00 (2HRS) The Legal Resources Centre asks what free prior consent means Ashley Westaway is the Manager of for rural communities? This discussion will be informative, lively, GADRA Education and a Research and thought provoking. The event will also include a screening of Associate with the Faculty of Education The Shore Break, co-produced by Ryley Grunenwald and Odette at Rhodes University. He is an Ashoka Geldenhuys. Odette Geldenhuys is a public interest lawyer and a Fellow who holds a PhD in History from documentary filmmaker, and is passionate about both. During her Fort Hare University. The consensus public interest law career she has worked at, among others, Legal view about South African schooling is Aid South Africa and the United Nations.Wilmien Wicomb is an that it comprises two systems, one that attorney in the Constitutional Litigation Unit of the Legal Resources is functional and the other that is dysfunctional. This presentation Centre. Her practice specialises in African customary law and makes a first attempt at understanding and articulating the community governance systems, andrelates community rights to ‘functionality’ of those schools incorrectly boxed and dismissed as natural resources such as land, fishing and other extractives. ‘dysfunctional’. LOCAL HISTORIES, PRESENT THE ADMINISTRATION OF REALITIES – NOOR NIEFTAGODIEN POWER – IVOR CHIPKIN UNDERSTANDING CHANGE IN AREAS OUTSIDE THE WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 12:00 MAIN METROPOLITAN CITIES THURSDAY 9 JULY 10:00 Professor Ivor Chipkin is the Executive Director Professor Noor Nieftagodien serves as the Chair of the History of the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) Workshop at Wits University’s School of Social Sciences and is a and an Associate Professor in the School senior lecturer in the History Department. He also serves on the of Social Sciences at the University of the board of the South African History Archives. He has recently been Witwatersrand. Chipkin has 20 years of researching the medium and smaller towns in Gauteng, Free State, consulting experience which involved research Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West to gauge the extent to projects and reviews for local, provincial and which historical influences still have an impact on individuals’ and national government. Chipkin has experience communities’ everyday experiences. in government framework development as well as policy development. STATE OF THE STATE DEBATE THURSDAY 9 JULY 17:30 What is the state of the state? How are we doing at the age of 21? How do we evaluate whether our democracy is working?The experts debate. MUSICAL NOTES “MINTIRO YA VHULAVHULA” THE SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY: COMPOSING IN A TIME AND PLACE – A DEBATE THE MUSICAL DEEDS OF THURSDAY 9 JULY 14:00 DR SJ KHOSA South Africa has a long history of composing music – from informal SATURDAY 11 JULY 16:00 soirees to classical concerts and from cultural choirs to politically- infused performances. The new compositions have much to do with Shalati Joseph Khosa (1936-2013) is one of the most prolific black enriching South Africa’s cultural life but how can the composition of choral composers in South Africa. His music has been prescribed new music be supported by new processes in funding, education, in all major choral eisteddfods in South Africa. Khosa has received performance opportunities and documentation that will adequately several prestigious awards, amongst them are: the Premier’s Anglo- reflect their place on the South African arts circuit? Peter Klatzow, Platinum Award and the SABC’s Munghana Lonene Award. Khosa Mokale Koapeng, Dianne Thram and Peter Louis van Dijk discuss has received several commissions from churches, festivals and this issue. several companies including SAA (song on uBuntu) and SASOL (conductor’s workshop).

Dr. Reuel Khoza, a prominent black businessman and a patron of choral music will talk about the music of Shalati Khosa. He will reflect of the cultural, political and social themes that Shalati addressed in his music. MUSICAL NOTES 121 PETER KLATZOW – MY MUSIC 150 YEARS OF WAGNER’S TRISTAN – FRIDAY 10 JULY 17:00 MONUMENT RESTAURANT JAMIE MCGREGOR TUESDAY 7 JULY 11:00 SEMINAR ROOM 1 Peter Klatzow celebrates his 70th year in 2015 and his compositions will 2015 marks the 150th anniversary be celebrated in various concerts on of Wagner’s masterpiece Tristan the Festival Music Programme. In an and Isolde, a work identified as informal setting Klatzow discusses his both a watershed in the history of work and plays recordings of some of music and the supreme pinnacle his compositions – letting the listener of Romantic art, boundless in its into the background of the work. This influence and the immensity of well-known South African composer its erotic appeal. To celebrate the was, for 37 years, the Professor of occasion, the Wagner reading Composition at the University of Wagner project, will present a Cape Town. For two very fraught and unique simulation of the complete anxious years he even took over the opera, serialised over three days directorship of the College. Since and juxtaposing a re-creation 2010 he has devoted his time to composition and travelling with (in English) of Wagner’s own his God-daughter, Claudia Botes. His voyages have taken him to characteristically dramatic reading of his libretto with a multimedia Egypt, Italy and Paris. As a composer Peter Klatzow was once known presentation of music and image. This lecture provides a useful as a fearless promoter of the avant-garde aesthetic, and lectured introduction for those attending the readings. Jamie McGregor is on electronic music, Cage and Stockhausen. Tiring of the politics a lecturer in the Department of English at Rhodes University. His of aggressively “new” music he evolved a more creative approach special interest in Wagnerian opera and its relationship to English to merging the old with the contemporary. He has composed an literature is reflected in both his teaching and research. Wagner extensive repertoire for the marimba, and also made some major Reading Wagner is on at the Beethoven Room from 9 to 11 July – contributions to the field of choral music. see page 170. ON THE SILVER SCREEN THE KYKNET/MNET SOFT VENGEANCE ALBIE SACHS AND THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA JANS RAUTENBACH INTERVIEW A FILM BY ABBY GINZBERG PRESENTED BY THE FILM FESTIVAL SUNDAY 12 JULY 10:00 FRIDAY 10 JULY 10:00 Soft Vengeance is a film about Jans Rautenbach directed his first feature Albie Sachs, lawyer, writer, art film Die Kandidaat, co-written by Emil lover and freedom fighter, set Nofal, in 1968. This was a milestone in against the dramatic events South African cinema gaining an award leading to the overthrow of the from the Academy of Arts and Science. His apartheid regime in South Africa. controversial production Katrina followed Shining a spotlight on Sach’s which examined the taboo subject of inter- story provides a prism through racial love. Landmarked films on the SA which to view the challenges calendar were Jannie Totsiens, Pappa Lap, faced by those unable to tolerate Ongewensde Vreemdelin, Eendag op ‘n a society founded on principles Reendag, Blink Stefaans and Broer Matie to of slavery and disempowerment name but a few. In 1989 Rautenbach was awarded the FAK Prize for of South Africa’s majority black his contribution to Afrikaans culture. Cedric Sundstrom interviews population. Winner of a 2015 Jans Rautenbach about his career in film. Peabody Award, the screening will be attended by Justice Albie Sachs who will speak to the audience after the screening.

A MEETING BETWEEN SOUTH AMERICAN RED – A DOCUMENTARY BY SIMON GUSH AND SOUTH AFRICAN FILM ARTISTS SATURDAY 4 JULY 17:30 PRESENTED BY THE FILM FESTIVAL TUESDAY 7 JULY 10:00 In the mid-eighties, the Mercedes Benz plant in East London, South Africa faced a crisis. While it had been run by conservative Alvaro Brechner (Uruguay) and Pablo Cesar (Argentina) meet management, unions had become extremely militant. Production in discussion with South African filmmaker Jahmil XT Qebeka was low as the work stoppages, strikes and go-slows had become (Standard Bank Young Artist for Film 2014) to look at the areas open the norm. A change in leadership in 1988/89, however, meant that for collaboration between artists in the South. new relationships began to develop and resulted in a ground- breaking recognition agreement between Mercedes Benz and the unions (which in many ways pre-empted the labour relations act of 1995 in South Africa). A sign of this new rapport was when the workers convinced management that they would build a Mercedes Benz 500SE for Nelson Mandela. In Simon Gush’s documentary, made in collaboration with James Cairns, the story is told through the voices of the people involved. It includes interviews with some of the main protagonists from management and labour, overlaid with PABLO CESAR ALVARO BRECHNER footage of contemporary East London.” 122 PLAY ON WORDS A CHAIN OF FLORENCE: A SCRIPT READING VOICES: THE BY PATRICIA BOYER PRODUCED BY POPART PRODUCTIONS PROSE OEUVRE TUESDAY 7 JULY 16:00 SEMINAR ROOM 1 OF ANDRÉ BRINK – Florence explores the life of GODFREY MEINTJES Lady Florence Phillips and the FRIDAY 3 JULY 14:00 circumstances that lead to the creation of the Johannesburg Art Gallery. We The life and work of renowned teacher, critic and writer, André encounter Lady Phillips in modern- Brink (1935-2015) is celebrated and honoured by the National Arts day Johannesburg as a ghost trapped Festival through this tribute from his long-time colleague and friend, outside the gates of a palace where she Dr Godfrey Meintjes. was once queen. Dr Meintjes retired as Head of Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies Through her first-hand accounts of at Rhodes University at the end of 2012 but still teaches Literature, events and lamentations of loves lost Literary Theory and Narratology in the School of Languages. and unrequited, the audience is invited He completed a PhD under the supervision of Professor André to explore the history of a city and the Brink and has published articles in scholarly journals and chapters relevance of art in the formation of a place’s identity. in books, nationally and internationally, on (re)-reading traditional Writer: Myer Taub, Director: Jennifer Steyn, Reader: Patricia Boyer Afrikaans prose texts, postcoloniality, literature and ecology, and history and fiction. ODYSSEY OF AN WHAT IS “AFRICAN LITERATURE” AFRICAN OPERA SINGER: GOOD FOR? – RANKA PRIMORAC PRESENTED BY RHODES UNIVERSITY’S AUETSA CONFERENCE MUSA NGQUNGWANA SATURDAY 11 JULY 14:00 MONDAY 6 JULY 10:00 SEMINAR ROOM 1 This talk will consider some cultural How did a baby, born in 1984 in South and institutional implications of Africa under the world’s most complicated the deployment (in the present system of segregation and apartheid, find historical moment) of the category his way to the great opera stages of Europe ‘African Literature’ as a tool of literary and the United States? How did a child, classification, a pathway to cultural raised in poverty by his grandmother in consecration, a cluster of textual Zwide township, attain academic degrees forms, a network of authors, texts and in both South Africa and the United States? readers and a mode of reading. Ranka What does it take for one boy – or any Primorac lectures at the Department child – to overcome the debilitating effects of English, University of Southampton. of discrimination and impoverishment? She has degrees from the universities of Zagreb, Zimbabwe and In his newly published autobiography Musa Ngqungwana details Nottingham Trent. Her research interests are to do with African his story, from growing up in poverty in South Africa to winning the literatures and cultures (with emphasis on Southern Africa), narrative prestigious Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2013 constructions of space-time, the social functioning of literary fictions, and, in 2015, the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music. city cultures and texts and new cosmopolitanisms. Together with Stephanie Newell, she co-edits Boydell and Brewer’s new African Articulations book series. NEW TERRITORIES – GREG HOMANN SHAKESPEARE’S WORD PLAY BOOK CONVERSATION THURSDAY 9 JULY 11:00 SATURDAY 11 JULY 16:00 SEMINAR ROOM 1 SEMINAR ROOM 1

South Africa’s In this critical anthology of most experienced essays and interviews, some director of the plays of the world’s most respected of Shakespeare Roy scholars and practitioners writing Sargeant has written and working in South African and compiled theatre today share their detailed this performance. examinations and insights on Sargeant is joined the complex and contradictory by the doyenne of context of post-apartheid society. South African theatre Diane Wilson in this hugely entertaining, not The contributors document, to say instructive, celebration of Shakespeare the wordsmith. There contrast, and analyse significant case studies, representing are readings of famous and not-so-famous passages from the plays, examples from site-specific performance to new South African plays, reminiscences of the Maynardville productions in Cape Town and from traditional indigenous performance practice to the reimagining hilarious stories of the great Shakespearian actors of the past. Did of Western classics. The anthology takes the year of South Africa’s the Swan of Avon invent 7 000 or 10 000 new English words or was first democratic election, 1994, as its departure point and includes a it 847 647? Shakespeare’s Word Play provides a provocative and broad range of topics that capture the current paradigm. entertaining exploration of the Bard at his best. PLAY ON WORDS 123 GRAFFITI SHORT.SHARP.STORIES: SOUTH AFRICA INCREDIBLE JOURNEY FRIDAY 10 JULY 11:00 CALE SEMINAR ROOM 1

WADDACOR This is the third of the annual SATURDAY 4 JULY 11:00 SHORT.SHARP.STORIES SEMINAR ROOM 1 anthologies. Following the crime-thrillers of Bloody In a visual feast, Cale Waddacor showcases the work of South Satisfied (2013) and erotic Africa’s most influential graffiti artists in his photographic montage, tales of Adults Only (2014), Graffiti South Africa. Selective interviews with major graffiti the focus in 2015 is on personalities reveal their passions and inspirations and cover all a journey, be it political, aspects of the movement, creating a true representation of its personal or emotional. The evolution. From underground tunnels and abandoned buildings to incredible journeys of this train yards and townships, local writers, each with their own distinct year’s title vary from road style, spread their work across the nation. During the Festival, trips to mind trips, and are by Waddacor will be creating murals in Grahamstown with local artists turns inspirational, intriguing, – watch out for his handiwork around the city. and entertaining. The judges of this year’s competition were Henrietta Rose-Innes, Ken Barris and WHEN I WAS A Makhosazana Xaba, with a foreword to the collection by FISH: TALES OF AN Sindiwe Magona. As the only regular collection of short ICHTHYOLOGIST – fiction writing in South Africa, the SHORT.SHARP.STORIES initiative, MIKE BRUTON published in conjunction with the National Arts Festival, is playing an increasingly important role in the nurturing and development FRIDAY 3 JULY 11:00 of South African writing talent. As in previous years, the winning SEMINAR ROOM 1 author receives R20 000 and there are three further awards of R5 000. Author, editor and creative-writing teacher Joanne Hichens, curator of the SHORT.SHARP.STORIES awards, will announce the This fast-paced, highly readable book winning authors at this event as well as reveal the theme for the recounts the extraordinary life of Mike Bruton, one of the leading 2016 anthology. fish biologists and science communicators in Africa. Mike was born in East London where the first coelacanth was caught and studied at Rhodes University during the time of the legendary ichthyologist WORK – ANTI-WORK JLB Smith. He became Director of the Ichthyology Institute named SATURDAY 4 JULY 14:00 after Smith and pioneered research on the coelacanth in Southern and Eastern Africa. Mike’s research on the freshwater fishes of Lerato Bereng, the 2015 Featured Curator, (Nine O’Clock), Simon Africa and the Middle East lead to entanglements with crocodiles, Gush (artist and film-maker), and Ahmed Veriava and Prishani hippopotami, giant snakes and military operations but also allowed Naidoo, both writers well-versed in labour relations, take their him to contribute to international efforts to conserve wetlands and direction from Gush’s exhibition and the doumentary film, Red (see threatened species. Through funny, peculiar and sometimes bizarre page 121), in a fascinating discussion on issues around work and episodes, he shows that an aquatic scientist’s life is a story worth anti-work. telling! Gush’s film will be screened after the discussion at 17:30 on 4 July in the Blue Lecture Theatre. The exhibition, Nine O’Clock, is at Fort Selwyn outside the Monument, and is open daily from 9:00 to 18:00. CARTOON COMPETITION

PRESENTED WITH SUPPORT FROM #COCREATESA FRIDAY 10 JULY 16:00

The city of The Hague in the Netherlands and Cartoon Movement International teamed up to create a global debate about peace and justice that will involve editorial cartoonists and students from around the world. In a worldwide Cartoon Competition they ask young people about their ideas and local solutions that can tribute to international peace and create cartoon sketches. The 10 best cartoons are selected by an international jury and will be on display at the Peace Palace in The Hague in the week of 21 JEREMEY NELL September 2015. With support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Cartoon Competition will have its South African launch at the National Arts Festival. South African award-winning cartoonist Jeremey Nell, (Vodacom journalist of the year 2011) and Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards (2nd prize at Press Cartoon Europe in 2014), will talk about the power of cartoons and satire and inspire the audience to create their own cartoons and enter the competition

on this year’s theme “my peace, your peace”. TJEERD ROYAARDS TJEERD 124 THE LISTENING LOUNGE WITH RICHARD HASLOP

Richard Haslop is a practising labour lawyer who has been involved with music for most of his life. He is best known for the wildly-eclectic radio shows he presented over 14 years on Radio South Africa and its successor SAfm, and for the thousands of pieces he has written about music for the past 30 years for a number of national and international publications. He has also lectured history of music courses on African- American popular music, the music business, world music, the blues and even country music at UKZN and other institutions. He may be the only person ever to have lectured strike law and the history of Cajun music on the same day. THE BLUES HAD A BABY AND 15 FANTASTIC SONGS FROM THEY NAMED IT ROCK ‘N ROLL 2014 THAT YOU NOT SO MUCH SUNDAY 5 JULY 17:00 MONUMENT RESTAURANT PROBABLY BUT ACTUALLY

Elvis Presley was born 80 years ago and the first Elvis Presley single ALMOST CERTAINLY DIDN’T HEAR was played on the radio for the first time exactly 61 years ago. It TUESDAY 7 JULY 17:00 may not have been the first rock ‘n’ roll song but it was the one that MONUMENT RESTAURANT changed everything... forever. Rudyard Kipling once said, “What do they know of Elvis who only Elvis know?” Or something similar. This is the music, from a variety of genres and locations, that parted So, who was that masked man? Richard Haslop will endeavour to the clouds for Richard Haslop last year. It will very possibly do the explain but, following Kipling, will mainly play music that’s not by same for you. Elvis. POLITICAL SONG AT 331/3 THE PIPES, THE PIPES ARE CALLING MONDAY 6 JULY 17:00 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE MONUMENT RESTAURANT WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 17:00 MONUMENT RESTAURANT They say that bagpipers walk while they’re playing in order to Whether scathingly satirical, laugh out loud funny or as serious get away from the sound of the instrument. But it needn’t be that as your life, politically-orientated song writing has always had the way. Join us as we listen to music played on a variety of piping power to upset those who might have a guilty conscience. Listen instruments from a variety of countries that will burst your bubble, with us as writers from around the world and across the decades shatter your preconceptions and surely change your attitude set up their targets and knock them down with unerring accuracy, towards this most maligned of musical devices. sometimes at considerable personal cost.

CLASSIC FM CONCERT INTRODUCTIONS PRESENTED BY CLASSIC FM

A Classic FM presenter will host pre-concert talks at both the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra concerts: the Symphony Concert on 4 July and the Gala Concert on 5 July. Both sessions will take place in the Guy Butler Theatre prior to the concerts.

SYMPHONY CONCERT INTRODUCTION: SATURDAY 4 JULY AT 17:00 GALA CONCERT INTRODUCTION: SUNDAY 5 JULY AT 14:00 ENTRANCE IS FREE ON PRODUCTION OF A VALID CONCERT TICKET

HOW TO DO A SHOW AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE

PRESENTED WITH SUPPORT FROM CONNECT ZA WEDNESDAY 7 JULY 10:00 ARTISTS’ LOUNGE, MONUMENT RESTAURANT

Every year the Fringe Society goes on the road to bring you information about how to take part in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and to make the most of all the opportunities on offer. These free events are a great chance to get advice from experts about your Fringe visit and get your questions answered. You can hear about the origin of the festival, connect with our staff to talk about finding a space for your show and gain tips on how to make the most of your Fringe visit. Presented by Kath Mainland – Chief Executive, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society and Rachel Sanger – Head of Participant Services, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. TWIST PROJECT & CITY PRESS DISCUSSIONS 125 THE ZULU CRUSH DIALOGUES THE NOVEL-SCRIPT PROJECT PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH TWIST PROJECTS WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 10:00 (90 MINUTES) ST ANDREW’S STUDIO 1 AGES: PG14 TICKETS: FREE

Initiated in 2009 as a partnership between the Festival facilitated by the award-winning script National Arts Festival and Twist Projects, the Novel- writer, poet and dramaturge, Kobus Moolman and Script Project brings together selected writers from director Emma Durden, a group of six writers-in- South Africa, the Netherlands, and Zimbabwe to residence will create a series of dialogues inspired participate in a dynamic residency at the Festival. by Twijnstra’s novel. Each year a novel is selected as the basis for the project, so that the writers are focused on a The Zulu Crush Dialogues is presented as a free, common theme and characters. Past residencies open performance by professional actors from have included Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of South Africa and Zimbabwe. The performance will Excelsior and Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land. be followed by a 30-minute discussion. The writers residency at the National Arts Festival The 2015 Twist Novel-Script Project will explore the is managed by Twist Projects and is supported by complexities of love across borders in Zulu Crush, a the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands novel by Dutch writer/theatre-maker in South Africa, and by Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Roel Twijnstra. Council and the Swiss Agency for Development Based on a 10-day residency at the National Arts and Cooperation (SDC).

CITY PRESS POST PERFORMANCE DISCUSSIONS When the applause has subsided and the artists have returned back to the dressingrooms there is always a curiosity about how and from where the artists found their inspiration. The City Press post-performance discussions provide an opportunity for audiences to participate in a challenging, enlightening and thought-provoking 30 minute post-performance discussion, moderated by a City Press journalist, with the cast and creative team behind a production.

A DOLL’S HOUSE (PAGE 71) FRIDAY 10 JULY 18:00 RHODES THEATRE It is hard to ignore the play’s strong feminist resonances but perhaps one of the most radical aspects of A Doll’s House is that it presents a woman’s dilemma as a human dilemma, relevant to both sexes. How can directors continue to challenge the notion that stories about a particular gender, race or other demographic should be treated as a special subject of concern only by artists from that demographic?

AFRICAN TIMES (PAGE 74) THURSDAY 2 JULY 20:30 RHODES THEATRE African Times embraces the tensions of today, hinting at the upheavals of the past and suggesting solutions in the future. Uys describes the play as ‘a white comedy or a black tragedy, depending on whose side you’re on’. The work of South African artists in general has not shied away from reflecting critically on society and on proposing possible solutions for a better future. What can be done to get audiences, politi- cians and other leaders to take greater heed of the voices of artists?

MASOTE’S DREAM (PAGE 86) FRIDAY 10 JULY 20:00 TRANSNET GREAT HALL Masote’s Dream is an important biography of a leading and pioneering South African musician and his achievements in a struggle against an absurd regime. How can productions such as Masote’s Dream play a role in documenting South Africa’s history and celebrating it without the risk of romanticising the struggles of the past?

BORN IN THE RSA (PAGE 78) THURSDAY 2 JULY 18:00 GRAEME COLLEGE Barney Simon perfected the art of workshopping productions, which involved sending his actors onto the streets to experience the actual lives and realities of the characters which they would later portray on stage. What are the challenges and inspiration for reviving a work- shopped South African production two decades later?

HAMLET (PAGE 80) MONDAY 6 JULY 19:00 RHODES THEATRE Hamlet states that the purpose of theatre is “to hold as ‘twere the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” Why should Shakespeare’s work continue to be presented with or without being contemporised?

I HAVE LIFE (PAGE 79) THURSDAY 2 JULY 16:00 VICTORIA THEATRE Based on the true and incredible story of a woman who was raped, stabbed multiple times twenty years ago. There is a healing power when theatre is effectively used to discuss narratives that unravel painful truths but there is also the risk about how directors choose to tell the nar- rative. Should the narrative be driven by the subject or by the person at the centre of the story?

THE IMAGINED LAND (PAGE 75) FRIDAY 10 JULY 16:00 VICTORIA THEATRE The Imagined Land is a new state of the nation play for our troubled, troubling times. How do we represent ourselves through narrative? How do we represent each other? Is there a need for a TRC in the arts?

THE VOICE I CANNOT SILENCE (PAGE 77) THURSDAY 2 JULY 12:00 RHODES BOX THEATRE Should writers, directors and actors be driven by a social conscience and a responsibility or should they just focus on making good art?

THREE BLIND MICE (PAGE 76) MONDAY 6 JULY 15:00 RHODES BOX THEATRE Three Blind Mice looks to the horrific and barely believable narratives that have dominated South African media recently. How can contemporary artists avoid being at risk of playing to the agenda set by the media rather trying to define their own agenda?

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Presented with the support of the National Film and Video Foundation and MNET Grahamstown 2015

THE MAGNA CARTA OF FILM FESTIVALS: SUPPORTING THE LIBERTIES

MAIN VENUE: Olive Schreiner Hall, Monument CURATOR: Trevor Steele Taylor 120 DAYS GALLERY: Grotto Mojito, Cnr High & Somerset Streets CO-ORDINATOR: Cedric Sundstrom NATIONAL FILM & VIDEO FOUNDATION VENUE: TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATION AND HEAD Gallery in the Round, Monument PROJECTIONIST: Janadien Cupido THINK!FEST PROGRAMMES: Eden Grove Complex PROJECTIONIST: Zanexolo Mbazah Klaas BIOSCOPE PROGRAMME: Fingo Village Square ERDMANN GALLERY: Heidi Erdmann and Rafael Powell TICKETS: R35 (unless otherwise stated) LIMITS OF LIBERTY: Liza Key HEAD FILM ARTS – THE OPEN WINDOW: Pluto Panoussis 128 MANFRED ZYLLA – 120 DAYS OF SODOM – PASOLINI 120 DAYS OF SODOM & WAITING FOR... AN EXHIBITION OF NEW ART WORK BY MANFRED ZYLLA

erman born and South African based artist Manfred Zylla became prominent Gas an artist highly critical of apartheid in the 1980’s. His hard-hitting drawings, prints and paintings emphasized the brutality and violence of that time. His works are widely acknowledged as critical for understanding resistance art, an important chapter in South African art history. 120 Days of Sodom found its genesis with a pack of paper in 2012. The small paper size stimulated the idea of producing a series as homage to Pasolini’s last made film, Salò. Each painting is presented inside the outline of a television screen. It is a non-sequential series, book-ended with only a planned opening and closing painting. With this series Zylla also acknowledges the life-long influences Dante, and to a lesser extent the Marquis De Sade had in his career as an artist. The exhibition comments broadly on a range of issues, including sexual violence, power, capitalism, censorship and possession; issues long associated with this artist’s career. In his new series, Waiting for… Zylla extends his interested in the work of Italian filmmaker Pasolini, but this time the work is informed by the directors’ notes and anecdotes. Zylla’s drawings are GROTTO MOJITO (CORNER SOMERSET & HIGH) interpretations of Pasolini’s instructions and suggestions to his cast and crew. EXHIBITION OPENING FRIDAY 3 JULY 17:30 THEREAFTER DAILY 09:00 TO 17:00 PG 16 – DUE TO GRAPHIC IMAGERY ART AND RESISTANCE Manfred Zylla will be part of a panel at Think!Fest examining the position of “Art” as a method of resistance to coercion by structures of State, Religious, Financial, Censorial and Corporate Power.

BLUE LECTURE THEATRE, EDEN GROVE MONDAY 6 JULY 12:00 TICKETS R30

Nothing is more anarchic than power. Power does what it wants

SALÒ THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM SALO – LE 120 GIORNATE DI SODOMA Italy 1975

DIRECTOR PIER PAOLO PASOLINI CAST PAOLA BONACELLI, GIORGIO CATALDI, UBERTO F QUINTAVALLE, ALDO VALETTE COURTESY OF Park Circus

asolini’s audacious translation of the Marquis de Sade’s classic P120 Days of Sodom from pre-Revolutionary France to the Fascist Republic of Salo in Mussolini’s Italy in the closing stages of World War II is arguably one of cinema’s most extreme works. Four pillars of society, representing the State, the Church, the Aristocracy and the Banking World, preside over the torture, rape and murder of a group of young girls and boys kidnapped from the lower echelons of society. This terrible meditation on the corrupting influence of power and greed is as relevant today as it was when written and filmed. SUNDAY 5 JULY 19:30 SATURDAY 11 JULY 22:00 DURATION 117 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION 18 (SVLN) PIER PAOLO PASOLINI 129

ier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was Pone of the most influential artists to appear in post-war Italy. Referred to as Saint Pasolini by his contemporary Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris) he was a poet, a writer, an actor, a painter, a filmmaker, a Socialist and, above all, a Humanist. Murdered by a rent boy on a secluded beach in Ostia in 1975, Pasolini was constantly in pitched battle with the agencies of power – the State, the Church, Censors – he refused to be compliant.

The very few people who made history are the ones who said NO! An act of refusal must be total, not partial. Pier Paolo Pasolini THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE DECAMERON ST MATTHEW IL DECAMERON IL VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO Italy 1970 Italy 1964 DIRECTOR PIER PAOLO PASOLINI CAST FRANCO CITTI, NINETTO DAVOLI, DIRECTOR PIER PAOLO PASOLINI CAST ENRIQUI IRAZOQUI, MARGHERITA CARUSO, COURTESY OF Park Circus SUSANNA PASOLINI COURTESY OF Instituto Italiano di Cultura The first film in Pasolini’s The Trilogy of Life which took classic texts to recreate Pasolini’s retelling of Matthew’s Gospel past worlds and societies in which is meticulously faithful to the text while sexuality and joy were without the at the same time presenting a Christ cloud of prurience the post-Victorian who is virile, a champion of the poor and world has shrouded us in. Taking a committed opponent to the temporal Boccaccio’s picaresque nouvelle he, power he confronts. Using a cast of in free-form, improvises around ten non-professionals (his Christ – Enriqui of the stories. Taking considerable Irazoqui – was a Spanish literature liberties, but well within the spirit of the creator, , Pasolini also appears student), the film is imbued with realism himself as the painter Giotto, on his way with his workmen to paint a that is both gritty and sacred. religious fresco. The last line is a beauty – Why produce a work of art when it’s nice just to dream about it? SUNDAY 5 JULY 10:00 FRIDAY 3 JULY 20:00 SUNDAY 12 JULY 10:00 THURSDAY 9 JULY 17:30 DURATION 137 minutes DURATION 111 minutes AGE RESTRICTION ALL AGES AGE RESTRICTION 16 (SN) THE CANTERBURY TALES ARABIAN NIGHTS I RACCONTI DI CANTERBURY IL FIORE DELLE MILLE E UNA NOTTE Italy 1972 Italy 1974

DIRECTOR PIER PAOLO PASOLINI DIRECTOR PIER PAOLO PASOLINI CAST NINETTO DAVOLI, FRANCO CITTI, CAST NINETTO DAVOLI, INES PELLEGRINI, FRANCO CITTI LAURA BETTI, JOSEPHINE CHAPLIN COURTESY OF Park Circus COURTESY OF Park Circus The third and last of The Trilogy of Life is the culmination of a dream of a past In the second film of The Trilogy of Life, Pasolini desired, but no longer existing. Perhaps it never did exist except in the poetic moved his location to England to film the classic works of the past, where ghosts and shadows were summoned to create worlds tale of a group of pilgrims on a religious journey to which resisted time. These voyages to the past become disappointments (and they Canterbury, entertaining each other on the trip by were to Pasolini) in the face of modernisation, globalisation and the destruction of telling tales of a generally bawdy nature. ancient societies governed by ancestral connection and magical links to eternity. Sexuality is rightfully prominent and without a trace of prurience. SATURDAY 4 JULY 19:30 FRIDAY 10 JULY 17:30 MONDAY 6 JULY 19:30 DURATION 111 MINUTES SATURDAY 11 JULY 17:30 AGE RESTRICTION 16 (SN) DURATION 130 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION 16 (SN) 130 LIMITS OF LIBERTY

n 1993, as a project of the Weekly Mail & Guardian Film Festival, Sally Sampson (British Board of Film Classification), Frank Panford ILiza Key, the Director of the festival initiated Limits of Liberty, a (Freedom of Expression Lawyer) and the filmmakers Nagisa Oshima ground-breaking anti-censorship festival which challenged and (In the Realm of the Senses) and Paul Schrader (The Last Temptation provoked its audiences for three consecutive years numbering of Christ). Liza Key will join us for the resurrection of this important among its guests Marjorie Heins (American Civil Liberties Union), freedom of speech initiative. LIMITS OF LIBERTY SESSION AT THINK!FEST GAVIN MACFADYEN (Director of the Centre WikiLeaks section editor. She works leaker Edward Snowden on a high-profile for Investigative Journalism at Goldsmiths with the WikiLeaks Legal Defence and is flight from to Moscow while he in London) and SARAH HARRISON – ’s closest adviser. Harrison was sought by the United States government. British journalist, legal researcher, and accompanied National Security Agency

BLUE LECTURE THEATRE, EDEN GROVE WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 10:00 TICKETS R30 TONY BENN: WILL AND TESTAMENT UK 2014

DIRECTOR SKIP KITE FEATURING TONY BENN COURTESY OF Praslin Pictures

Tony Benn, the longest serving Labour MP in history, is also, arguably, the most popular UK politician of all time. His brand of socialism has struck a chord with people of all ages and social backgrounds. Through intimate, quasi confessional interviews and his personal, photographic and film archive, the film reveals a very human face behind the political mask. Benn campaigns tirelessly against war and the arms trade.

MONDAY 6 JULY 12:00 THURSDAY 9 JULY 10:00 DURATION 96 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG THE KILLING$ OF TONY BLAIR CITIZEN FOUR UK 2015 USA/UK/Germany 2014

DIRECTOR GREG WARD & SANNE VAN DEN BERGH DIRECTOR LAURA POITRAS PRODUCER GEORGE GALLOWAY FEATURING EDWARD SNOWDEN, COURTESY OF theblairdoc GLEN GREENWALD COURTESY OF Collective Commons

A surprise winner at the 2014 Oscar Awards. Investigative journalist/filmmaker Laura Poitras’s footage of the time she and journalist supremo Glen Greenwald spent with Edward Snowdon in a hotel room in Hong Kong with a goody-bag full of encrypted files is nothing short of mesmerising.

SATURDAY 4 JULY 12:00 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 17:00 DURATION 112 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG “I’m making the definitive documentary about the Blair years. Years of war and plunder, death and destruction, corruption and disillusion. Tony Blair killed the Labour Party as we knew it. He and George W. Bush helped kill a million people in disastrous wars …” “This documentary … will expose Blair’s crimes.” –. George Galloway (Expelled in 2003 from the Labour Party for his outspoken objections)

TUESDAY 7 JULY 10:00 THURSDAY 9 JULY 12:00 DURATION 90 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG LIMITS OF LIBERTY 131 ILL MANORS UK 2013

DIRECTOR PLAN B CAST RIZ AHMED, ED SKREIN, NATALIE PRESS COURTESY OF Videovision Entertainment

unique feature film which looks seriously and intelligently at the Aplight of the poor in England living on the Estates (colloquially the Manors) directed by rap singer Plan B. Drug dealing, violence and poverty are the landscape but the positive emphasis of the film produces that rare thing – an action film with a social conscience.

MONDAY 6 JULY 22:00 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 22:00 DURATION 116 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION 18 (VLSN)

UNEARTHED South Africa 2014

DIRECTOR JOLYNN MINAAR COURTESY OF Stage 5 Films

A young South African woman swallows her optimism on the potential shale gas could bring to her people after traveling to ground zero and uncovering the dirty secrets of the fracking industry. Unearthed exposes the dark web of hidden truths upholding the false assurances made by multinational energy corporations that the method of hydraulic fracturing is a safe, time- tested technology and the flawed assertion that shale gas is the solution for our energy hungry world.

TUESDAY 7 JULY 12:00 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 14:30 DURATION 90 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG

INTO ETERNITY – A FILM FOR THE FUTURE Denmark 2010

THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP DIRECTOR MICHAEL MADSEN Netherlands/South Africa 2015 COURTESY OF The Danish Embassy

DIRECTOR HEINRICH DAHMS Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive COURTESY OF Buzzmedia Network waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and Three storylines bound together by a single theme: the curse of the to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository abalone. An endangered species; a prized aphrodisiac in China; is being hewn out of solid rock, a huge system of underground illegal harvesting; and the divesting effect on the traditional fishing tunnels that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste community of Hawston near Cape Town. remains hazardous.

MONDAY 6 JULY 14:00 FRIDAY 3 JULY 12:00 THURSDAY 9 JULY 14:00 TUESDAY 7 JULY 14:30 DURATION 93 MINUTES DURATION 75 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG AGE RESTRICTION PG 132 THE SOUTH Supported by the Embassies of Argentina and Uruguay A MEETING BETWEEN SOUTH AMERICAN FILM ARTISTS AND SOUTH AFRICA

ALVARO BRECHNER (Uruguay) and PABLO CESAR (Argentina) meet in discussion with South African filmmaker Jahmil XT Quebeka (Standard Bank Young Artist for Film 2014) to look at the areas open for collaboration between artists in the South.

BLUE LECTURE THEATRE EDEN GROVE TUESDAY 7 JULY 10:00 TICKETS R30

GUEST DIRECTOR ALVARO BRECHNER Born in 1976, Alvaro Brechner is one of Uruguay’s most acclaimed producers, screenwriters and directors. Between 2000 and 2007 he made dozens of documentaries broadcast on Spanish TV. He has also made several short films that have been released in more than 140 international festivals. In 2009, he wrote, produced and directed his first feature, Bad Day to go Fishing which was selected in the 48th Critics’ Week at Cannes. The film has subsequently been screened in over 60 international festivals receiving thirty awards and in Spain received nominations from critics for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Screenplay of the year.

MR KAPLAN Uruguay 2014 DIRECTOR ALVARO BRECHNER CAST HECTOR NOGUIERA, NESTOR GUZZINI, ROLF Becker COURTESY OF The Embassy of Uruguay

Uruguay’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film 2015, Mr Kaplan is a film that takes itself seriously enough to have weight and depth to its characters and themes, but not seriously enough to still have fun while doing it. At 76, Mr Kaplan has a severe existential crisis. As he begins to question his worth, he comes across a strange case when his grand-daughter mentions a German man who runs a café near the beach. Convinced that he has found an escaped “Nazi”, Mr Kaplan, himself a Jew who fled from the Nazis as a child, teams up with the expelled cop, Contreras, to kidnap the German and take him to justice.

TUESDAY 7 JULY 19:30 THURSDAY 9 JULY 19:30 DURATION 98 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG A BAD DAY TO GO FISHING MAL DIA PARA PESCAR Uruguay 2009 DIRECTOR ALVARO BRECHNER CAST GARY PIQUER, JOUKO AHOLA, ANTONELLA COSTA COURTESY OF The Embassy of Uruguay

Uruguay’s official submission to the Academy Award’s Foreign Language Film in 2010. Jacob van Oppen, the former strongest man on earth, and his manager Orsini, make a good living by traveling around small South American towns and organising wrestling exhibitions. Arriving in Santa Maria, they are met with uncommon enthusiasm, the local newspaper wants to sponsor the fight, helping hands placard the town with posters, and an open call is made for a worthy adversary. Ever so resourceful, Orsini knows how to find the right combatant, but fishing in Santa Maria could lead to a bigger catch than he’d hoped for.

WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 10:00 SUNDAY 12 JULY 17:30 DURATION 110 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION 13 (V) THE SOUTH 133

GUEST DIRECTOR PABLO CESAR Born in Buenos Aires, Pablo Cesar began filmmaking at the age of 13 shooting films on a Super 8mm camera given to him by his mother who also taught him about filmmaking techniques. Between 1975 and 1984, he shot 20 short films and two features all on Super 8mm. Thereafter he has shot nine feature films all shot on 35mm, preferring the aesthetics of film to digital processes. Specialising in co-producing in Africa, he has shot films in Tunisia, Cape Verde, Mali, Ethiopia and Angola. His next film will be shot in Namibia. THE GODS OF WATER LOS DIOSES DE AGUA Argentina/Angola 2015

DIRECTOR PABLO CESAR CAST JUAN PALOMINO, CHARO BOGARIN, BOY OLMI COURTESY OF The Embassy of Argentina

Inspired by the investigations of French ethnologist Marcel Griaule, Hermes, an Argentinian anthropologist goes to Africa in search of the possible origins of mankind, created by amphibious beings from other places in the universe. Supported by Dogon’s knowledge of the existence of the Dog Star, he travels to Angola and Ethiopia in search of the last protectors of this arcane knowledge. What he finds there is truly apocalyptic and the extraordinary final visions will have you glued to your seat

WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 19:30 FRIDAY 10 JULY 19:30 DURATION 115 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG (L) HUNABKU THE SACRED FAMILY EL PRINCIPIO DE TODO LA SAGRADA FAMILIA Argentina 2007 Argentina 1988 DIRECTOR PABLO CESAR CAST RAUL TAIBO, FLORENCIA RAGGI, DIRECTOR PABLO CESAR BOY OLMI CAST ARIEL BONOMI, NILDA RAGGI, COURTESY OF The Embassy of Argentina HARRY HAVILIO COURTESY OF The Embassy of Argentina A young boy, who has a troubled relationship with his father, is uprooted from his school and friends in Buenos Aires and taken After a catastrophic flood, a rag tag collection of hippies from a rural to remote Patagonia. His father, a mining engineer is totally commune turn up on the neat lawns of a palatial home in which materialistic about his profession but the boy senses that beneath representatives of the state, the church and high finance dwell with the ice of the frozen wastes lurks a presence which is both mystical their military-minded keeper. Their initial shock at the new arrivals and predatory. Operating in shimmering landscapes of ice the film turns into a sadistic show of charity which progresses into torture, will leave you with a sense of the power of natural forces existing rape and whole-scale carnage. The film is a visually stunning but both within the earth and within the human psyche. deeply disturbing attack on the morals of consumer culture.

TUESDAY 7 JULY 17:30 FRIDAY 3 JULY 14.00 FRIDAY 10 JULY 12:30 MONDAY 6 JULY 17.30 DURATION 100 MINUTES DURATION 87 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG AGE RESTRICTION 18 (SNLV) 134 OLD FILMS, NEW MUSIC VAMPYR Germany/France, 1932 DIRECTOR CARL THEODOR DREYER COURTESY OF The Open Window / Embassy of Denmark

ith its rolling fogs, ominous scythes, and Wforeboding visual echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema’s great nightmares. The film opens on a thin, dreamy, young occult enthusiast, Allan Gray. He checks into a creepy hotel and goes to bed. An old man enters his room and warns him that, ‘she must not die’. The old man leaves a package ‘to be opened after my death’. Gray gets out of bed and begins to experience a series of strange events. The film is accompanied by an original live music composition performed by South African artists A Hollow in the Land and Givan Lötz.

A Hollow in the Land is the husband and wife team, Jacob van der Westhuizen (also known as experimental musician Jacob Israel), and Ola Kobak (the leading member of Folktronica act Fulka). They currently reside in Pretoria and work from their studio, ‘Benjamin’.

Givan Lötz is a multidisciplinary sound and image artist. He can be found stretching, subverting and reassembling our understanding of the creative arts. He currently lives and works in Johannesburg.

FRIDAY 10 JULY 22:00 SUNDAY 12 JULY 12:30 DURATION 73 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION ALL AGES SUNRISE A SONG OF TWO HUMANS

DIRECTOR F W MURNAU CAST GEORGE O’BRIEN, JANET GAYNOR COURTESY OF The Open Window

A silent movie classic with original soundtrack created by JACOB ISRAEL and A SKYLINE ON FIRE.

SATURDAY 11 JULY 10:00 SUNDAY 12 JULY 15:00 DURATION 94 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION ALL AGES

PANDORA’S BOX

The classic silent film based on the play Lulu by Wedekind with LOUISE BROOKS as the doomed Lulu, in her journey to meet Jack the Ripper. Uniquely presented as a fusion of Weimar German Expressionism and the raw emotions of Country Music the screening will have a Live Country Soundtrack performed by THE SWAMP DOGS featuring DAX BUTLER (guitar and vocals) and RICHARD BRUYNS (pedal steel and slide).

SATURDAY 4 JULY 14:30 SUNDAY 5 JULY 14:30 DURATION 130 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION ALL AGES FILM IS LIKE A BATTLEGROUND 135 The fight to stay alive and preserve integrity A FULLER LIFE LOST SOUL DYING IN THE LIGHT USA/Germany 2014 THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD USA 2014 DIRECTOR SAMANTHA FULLER STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DR MOREAU DIRECTOR PAUL SCHRADER CAST JAMES FRANCO, USA 2014 CAST NICHOLAS CAGE, MARK HAMILL, DIRECTOR DAVID GREGORY ALEXANDER KARIM, JAMES TOBACK CAST RICHARD STANLEY, IRENE JACOB COURTESY OF Contemporary FAIRUZA BALK, COURTESY OF Crystal Brook Films ROB MORROW COURTESY OF Severin Films Even Hollywood professionals like Paul Sam Fuller was one of America’s Schrader (Taxi Driver) get bitten by the great individualistic directors who, Festival favourite Richard system. This very personal project about in the company of Sam Peckinpah Stanley (The Other World) an embittered CIA man with encroaching and Orson Welles never courted is back to tell the tale dementia hunting down an equally ailing compromise. In this affectionate film of how circumstances, Al Queda opponent was taken away from directed by his daughter, we are the weather, producers, him by his producers and Schrader was taken on a stirring journey through financiers and the cosmos locked out of the editing room. The film is his life as a newspaperman, soldier, conspired against him still pretty good but that is no consolation journalist, writer, filmmaker and to make his magnum to Schrader who is well aware how much iconoclast. opus The Island of Dr better it would have been if he had been left Moreau which was taken alone. SUNDAY 5 JULY 12:30 away from him and TUESDAY 7 JULY 16:00 turned into schlock by THURSDAY 2 JULY 22:00 Hollywood veteran John DURATION 80 MINUTES SUNDAY 5 JULY 22:00 Frankenheimer. AGE RESTRICTION PG DURATION 93 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION 15 (VL) FRIDAY 3 JULY 16:00 SUNDAY 5 JULY 17:30 DURATION 100 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG THINGS OF BEAUTY FINNEY’S GHOST TRIPPIE LA GRANDE BELLEZA UK 2015 South Africa 2014 Italy 2014 DIRECTOR DAVID FOX DIRECTOR NICOLA HANEKOM DIRECTOR CAST: ELEANOR BARR CAST NICOLA HANEKOM, CAST TONI SORVILLO, COURTESY OF Madra Rua STIAN BAM SABRINA FERILLI, COURTESY OF kykNET CARLO VERDONE COURTESY OF Videovision Based on her own theatre piece, inspired by Le Roi Jones’ Dutchman, Nicola Hanekom 2014 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film. plays a strange girl on a Karoo road who, Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed climbs on a bus and badly trips out a and seduced his way through the lavish passenger. nightlife of for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only MONDAY 6 JULY 16.00 novel, he has been a permanent fixture THURSDAY 9 JULY 16.00 in the city’s literary and social circles, but DURATION 26 MINUTES when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with AGE RESTRICTION 15 (L) a shock from the past, Jep takes stock of his life, and finds Rome in all its glory, a timeless A beautiful story about a corporate girl in landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. the City of London who is fascinated by a young homeless man who crosses over THURSDAY 2 JULY 19:30 from her world into another and, by doing SUNDAY 12 JULY 20:00 so, frees her from the meaningless life she is living. With the feeling of an Iain Sinclair DURATION 142 MINUTES novel mixed with Victorian ghost story writer AGE RESTRICTION 15 (NL) J Sheridan le Fanu, the film is profoundly touching.

MONDAY 6 JULY 16:00 THURSDAY 9 JULY 16:00 DURATION 40 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG 136 JANS RAUTENBACH JANS RAUTENBACH – AUTEUR

ans Rautenbach directed his first Jfeature film Die Kandidaat, co- written by Emil Nofal, in 1968. This was a milestone in South African cinema gaining an award from the Academy of Arts and Science. His controversial production Katrina followed which examined the taboo subject of inter-racial love. In 1969 Jans formed Sewentig his own company. Landmarked films on the SA calendar were Jannie Totsiens (written and directed by Rautenbach, is viewed as South Africa’s first Art Film), Pappa Lap, Ongewensde Vreemdelin, Eendag op ‘n Reendag, Blink Stefaans and the controversial Broer Matie to name but a few. In 1989 Jans was award the FAK Prize for his contribution to Afrikaans Culture. In 2014, after 35 years, Jans Rautenbach made Abraham. THE KYKNET / MNET JANS RAUTENBACH INTERVIEW CEDRIC SUNDSTROM will interview JANS RAUTENBACH about his career in film at Think!Fest.

FRIDAY 10 JULY 10:00 BLUE LECTURE THEATRE EDEN GROVE TICKETS R30 KATRINA JANNIE TOTSIENS ABRAHAM South Africa 1969 FAREWELL JOHNNY South Africa 2014 South Africa 1970 DIRECTOR JANS RAUTENBACH DIRECTOR JANS RAUTENBACH CAST JILL KIRKLAND, DIRECTOR JANS RAUTENBACH CAST DJ MOUTON, JOE STEWARDSON, CAST COBUS ROSSOUW, CHANTELLE PHILLIP, COBUS ROSSOUW KATINKA HEYNS, HANNES MULLER COURTESY OF The National Film, Video HERMIEN DOMMISSE COURTESY OF kykNET and Sound Archives and kykNET/MNET COURTESY OF The National Film, Video Subtitled in English and Sound Archives and kykNET/MNET Rautenbach’s first film in 35 years is a Subtitled in English highly personal project based on his own memories of a young sculptor, Abraham Sweet Land, who lived at Vlakteplaas near to Oulap in the Karoo, where Jans has lived for the last 30 years. A touching look at people on the margins of society, the power of the creative process, the desire to be heard Based on the play Try for White, the story and human relationships in all their myriad concerns a coloured woman who lives shades. With most of the cast coming from her life as white while her coloured family the Little Karoo and re-united with his are hidden away in a fishing village on the cameraman Koos Roets, Jans Rautenbach’s Cape’s West Coast. When she falls in love new film is a gem long in incubation. The with a white priest, everything begins to The arrival of a catatonic stranger at a music by Riku Latti equally, stirs the soul. come apart. A brave and intelligent attempt secluded mental facility sets the proverbial to deal with a controversial issue at a time cats amongst the pigeons but here the FRIDAY 10 JULY 15:00 in South Africa’s history when the infamous pigeons are more dangerous than the cat. SATURDAY 11 JULY 20:00 Immorality Act was a prisonable offence. An intriguing political parable and a unique DURATION 100 MINUTES example of Sestiger sensibility finding its AGE RESTRICTION PG FRIDAY 3 JULY 18:00 way into Afrikaans cinema. The seven (like SATURDAY 11 JULY 12:30 the devils in the Bible) inmates of the private asylum play a dangerous game of life and DURATION 97 MINUTES death with the new inmate. AGE RESTRICTION PG SATURDAY 4 JULY 17:30 SATURDAY 11 JULY 15:00 DURATION 92 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG PIETER-DIRK UYS 137 PIETER-DIRK UYS – SATIRIST

ith more than 7 000 solo performances Wpresented on stages across South Africa and internationally; and with more than 20 plays to his credit, Pieter-Dirk Uys is undoubtedly South Africa’s most legendary performing arts satirist.

From the moment that he set foot on the South African stage, his reputation as a fearless satirist was firmly rooted. He has created hilariously outrageous characters that have stirred the conscience of the nation. His astute satire has exposed the bones of apartheid dinosaurs. In his post-1994 work, he continues to expose the hypocracies of the fat cats that exploit South Africa’s complex and conflicted democracy. © Ruphin Coudyzer

ADAPT OR DYE FARCE ABOUT UYS SKATING ON THIN UYS South Africa 1982 South Africa 1983 South Africa 1985

DIRECTOR PIETER-DIRK UYS DIRECTORS KOOS HATTINGH AND DIRECTOR BROMLEY CAWOOD CAST PIETER-DIRK UYS, DAWIE MALAN CAST PIETER-DIRK UYS, THOKO NTSHINGA, CAST PIETER-DIRK UYS, THOKO NTSHINGA, CHRISTOPHER GALLOWAY THOKO NTSHINGA, CHRISTOPHER GALLOWAY CHRISTOPHER GALLOWAY with a cast of thousands including: Shot at the final performance of PDU’s LIZZ MEIRING, ANNELINE ground-breaking Market Theatre A riotous assembly in two acts with the KRIEL, HELEN SUZMAN, production. action set in the Embassy of the Republic of MIMI COERTSE, CONNIE South Africa in one of the new homelands of MULDER, PIET KOORNHOF FRIDAY 3 JULY 10:00 Southern Africa – Bapetikosweti. and the rest of South Africa MONDAY 6 JULY 10:00 When Evita Bezuidenhout, member of DURATION 90 MINUTES THURSDAY 2 JULY 10:00 the diplomatic corps, negotiates South AGE RESTRICTION PG FRIDAY 10 JULY 10:00 African oil leases with the government of DURATION 126 MINUTES Bapetikosweti, the resulting agreement AGE RESTRICTION PG involves a wedding with a surprise outcome.

Satirist and playwright Pieter-Dirk Uys plays his alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout and other members of her family, in this comedy that lampoons life in South Africa under apartheid.

SATURDAY 4 JULY 10:00 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 12.00 DURATION 100 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG

EVITA BEZUIDENHOUT WILL INTRODUCE THE SCREENING OF SKATING ON THIN UYS ON 8 JULY AT 12:00 Crispian Plunket © 138 BIOSCOPE AT THE FINGO VILLAGE SQUARE JOE BULLET ZUMA

South Africa 1973 Philippines 1985

DIRECTOR LOUIS DE WITT DIRECTOR JUN RAQUIZA CAST KEN GAMPU, ABIGAIL KUBEKA, CAST MAX LAUREL, SNOOKY SERNA, MARK GIL COCKY TLHOLTHALEMAJE COURTESY OF Gravel Road Entertainment Zuma is a movie remake of one of the oldest and most popular comic books in the Philippines. It stars Zuma, a creature donning a A mysterious gangster starts snake over his shoulder which perfectly accentuates his monster- sabotaging a soccer team’s like features. chances of winning the upcoming championship final. In the criminal FRIDAY 10 JULY 19:00 underworld of soccer only Joe DURATION 141 MINUTES Bullet (South Africa’s Shaft) can turn AGE RESTRICTION PG the tables. Banned after only two screenings in the apartheid days, the film is now released after 40 years. HEAR ME MOVE South Africa 2015 THURSDAY 9 JULY 17:00 DURATION 80 MINUTES DIRECTOR SCOTTNESS L SMITH CAST LOYANDA MFENA, ANELA VILANA, AGE RESTRICTION PG BONGANI SKOSANA COURTESY OF The National Film and Video Foundation

UMBANGO The son of a famous street dancer tries to discover the truth about South Africa 1975 his father’s tragic death 12 years prior. When he joins forces with his father’s dance partner, he finds himself embroiled in a bitter rivalry DIRECTOR TONIE VAN DER MERWE that pushes him to his limit. CAST POPO GUMEDE, HECTOR MATHANDA, SATURDAY 11 JULY 17:00 KAY MAGUBANE DURATION 120 MINUTES COURTESY OF Gravel Road AGE RESTRICTION PG Entertainment

A rip-snorting Zulu western! The Italians gave us Django – the Zulus RIGHTS OF PASSAGE: give us Umbango – the world’s first rickshaw western. LOVE AND LOSS IN THE TIME OF MANDELA THURSDAY 9 JULY 19:00 DURATION 80 MINUTES South Africa 2015 AGE RESTRICTION PG DIRECTORS ZANDILE WARDLE, TONY MIYAMBO, RETHABILE MOTHABI, YASHVIR BAGWANDEEN, MAPULO SIBANDA, BLEEDING ROSE VALENCIA JOSHUA, LERATO MOLOI, Nigeria 2007 NTOMBIZODWA MAGAGULA COURTESY OF The National Film and Video Foundation and DIRECTOR CHUCKS MORDI Natives at Large CAST OLU JACOBS, KATE HENSHAW NUTTALL COURTESY OF Chucks Mordi Eight short films made by young black filmmakers who entered adulthood during the last years of Mandela’s remarkable life. A group of biology students get sent by their conniving professor to a part of the country infested with evil to look for the infamous SATURDAY 11 JULY 19:00 bleeding rose. As the students die one by one, they come back as DURATION 111 MINUTES zombies to vex the professor. Winner of the Best Nigerian Feature AGE RESTRICTION PG Film at the Lagos International Film Festival.

FRIDAY 10 JULY 17:00 DURATION 72 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG DANISH CINEMA 139 Supported by the Embassy of Denmark NYMPHOMANIAC Denmark 2014 – Volumes 1 & 2

DIRECTOR Lars von Trier CAST CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, WILLEM DAFOE, UMA THURMAN COURTESY OF Avalon Cinemas

The third and final part of Lars von Trier’s Trilogy of Depression (preceded by AntiChrist and Melancholia). Reality in this complex movie: a woman is betrayed by the man of her life and wants to get revenge, but her quest fails. She tells a story to an old man about nymphomania. Her story is not real. The movie is about a complicated mental uneasiness due to the certainty of unfaithfulness. She is not a nymphomaniac. She fantasises about sexual infidelity driven to extremes.

FRIDAY 3 JULY 22:00 (Volume 1) SATURDAY 4 JULY 22:00 (Volume 2) TUESDAY 7 JULY 22:00 (Volume 1) THURSDAY 9 JULY 22:00 (Volume 2) DURATION 118 MINUTES (Volume 1) 123 MINUTES (Volume 2) AGE RESTRICTION 18 (SNLV) MELANCHOLIA Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany 2011

DIRECTOR LARS VON TRIER CAST KIRSTEN DUNST, CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, KIEFER SUTHERLAND COURTESY OF The Embassy of Denmark

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with the Earth. On the night of her wedding Justine is struggling to be happy on the supposedly happiest day of her life while Melancholia, a blue planet hurtles towards the Earth. Claire, her sister, struggles to maintain composure in the face of impending disaster.

THURSDAY 2 JULY 17:00 DURATION 136 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION 15 (SL)

EUROPA HUNGER SULT Denmark 1991 Denmark 1966 DIRECTOR LARS VON TRIER CAST UDO KIER, JEAN-MARC BARR, DIRECTOR HENNING CARLSEN BARBARA SUKOWA CAST PER OSCARSSON, GUNNEL LINDHOLM COURTESY OF The Embassy of Denmark COURTESY OF The Danish Embassy

You will now listen to my voice. My voice will help you and guide you This classic film is based on a novel by Knut Hamsun, Out in Africa. In still deeper into Europa. Every time you hear my voice, with every 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, word and every number, you will enter into a still deeper layer, open, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he relaxed and receptive. I shall now count from one to ten. On the meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. count of ten, you will be in Europa on a train in Germany just after the One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All war – a strange, haunting hallucination. the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

FRIDAY 2 JULY 14:30 THURSDAY 2 JULY 12:15 DURATION 112 MINUTES DURATION 112 MINUTES AGE RESTRICTION PG (V) AGE RESTRICTION PG 140 NFVF FILM &WORKSHOP SERIES

THE NFVF FILM & WORSHOP SERIES MINERS SHOT DOWN GALLERY IN THE ROUND, MONUMENT South Africa 2014 TICKETS Free DIRECTOR Rehad Desai The National Film & Video Foundation (NFVF) is a statutory body mandated by parliament to spearhead the development of the In August 2012, South African film and video industry. The NFVF Worshop Series is mineworkers in one of aimed at young and emerging filmmakers. All screenings take place South Africa’s biggest in the Gallery in the Round, 1820 Monument. platinum mines began a wildcat strike for bet- All screenings and workshops are free, but tickets should be ter wages. Six days later obtained from the box office to book a seat. used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, HEAR ME MOVE killing 34 and injuring South Africa 2015 many more. Using the point of view of the Marikana miners, Miners Shot Down follows DIRECTOR Scottness L Smith the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight CAST Loyanda Mfena, Anela Vilana, waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces Bongani Skosana, Pallance Dladla, of the mining company Lomin, the ANC government and their allies Israel Makoe, Jerry Mofokeng in the National Union of Mineworkers. What emerges is collusion at the top, spiraling violence and the country’s first post-apartheid (See page 138.) massacre. South Africa will never be the same again.

TUESDAY 7 JULY 17:30 FRIDAY 10 JULY 10:00 DURATION 120 minutes DURATION 52 minutes AGE RECOMMENDATION PG AGE RESTRICTION PG12 (V)

HARD TO GET FAAN SE TREIN South Africa 2014 South Africa 2014

DIRECTOR Zee Ntuli DIRECTOR Koos Roets WRITER Thuso Sibisi CAST Cobus Rossouw, Marius Weyers, Sandra Kotze,

When Skiets, an enigmatic, beautiful stranger walks into small rural Nicola Hanekom, Deon township tavern and demands a beer, TK, a charming local lothario Lotz, Willie Esterhuizen sets out to seduce her in order to prove his prowess ... Based on Pieter Fourie’s immensely popular play, WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 17:30 set in a small Karoo town DURATION 93 minutes in the fifties about the simple-minded, Faan, who AGE RECOMMENDATION 16 (SLVN) is obsessed with trains. The town is divided about Faan, some feeling he should be BLEEDING ROSE institutionalised and others Nigeria 2007 feeling that he should be left alone. Faan’s aged DIRECTOR Chucks Mordi father, a building contractor CAST Olu Jacobs, Kate Henshaw Nuttall falls terminally ill and the town doctor, who harbours dark secrets COURTESY OF Chucks Mordi and his young, resentful wife, Beatrice gains access to Faan’s home. Seeing that the house is full of valuable possessions, Beatrice sets (See page 138.) out to seduce and manipulate Faan with tragic results.

THURSDAY 9 JULY 17:30 FRIDAY 10 JULY 15:30 DURATION 72 minutes DURATION 115 minutes AGE RECOMMENDATION PG AGE RESTRICTION PG12 (LPV)

7 JULY 10:00 – 11:00 Intro to NFVF Naomi Mokhele 9 JULY 09:00 – 12:00 Directing Workshop Theory 12:00 – 17:00 Performance Workshop Akin Omotoso Jefferson Tshabalala 14:00 – 17:00 Directing Workshop Practical Akin Omotoso 8 JULY 09:00 – 12:00 Scriptwriting Workshop Theory Loyiso Maqoma 10 JULY 13:00 – 15:00 How to Enter the Film Industry 14:00 – 17:00 Scriptwriting Workshop Practical All facilitators & Trusty Ndimande Loyiso Maqoma WORKSHOP SERIES

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THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ODDBODY COLLECTIVE PRESENTS

CURATED AND PERFORMED BY RICHARD ANTROBUS SUGGESTION BOX

uggestion Box #justsaying is an Sinteractive public platform (transparent soapbox) curated by #JUSTSAYING Richard Antrobus in which the iconic whiteface mime is trapped in a glass box – only this time the box is real!

With the illusion gone and no stylistic voice, the mime has nothing to do. The performer is stuck and needs an active audience. Here, spectators are invited to engage with the exhibit, writing comments and ideas and posting them into the box itself. These suggestions help guide and shape each performance experience and determine what happens and how both the mime and audience acts or reacts.

The installation is a performative response to the current socio-political cube in which the whiteface clown finds himself. Inspired by Dr. Samantha Vice’s controversial paper, “How do I live in this Strange Place? (2010), the trapped mute is faced with a startling reality: his own pale reflection.

But with the imaginary barrier now present, the mime’s virtuosic technique and style is defunct and his role and advocacy now questionable. The silent mime becomes a voiceless performer. The exhibit transforms from fun, frivolous, iconic public art into more serious socio-political commentary, depending on which way the audience chooses to view the work. Some of the themes explored include race, land re-dress, social inequality, whiteness and blackface performance, as well as the role of the performer in a contemporary South African context. However, the exhibit is not didactic or intended to provoke controversy. Rather, it is a series of momentary reflections that simply hopes to start conversations.

Richard Antrobus graduated with MA Drama in Contemporary Performance in 2010. He was the recipient of a Standard Bank Ovation “Encore” Award 2011, a GIPCA fellowship (U.C.T) in 2012, featured in Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans 2013, selected for the Cirque du Soleil performer database (2014) and is a candidate for Assitej’s Inspiring A Generation 2015 programme.

TUESDAY 7 JULY 10:00 (Drostdy Lawns) WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 10:00 (Village Green) THURSDAY 9 JULY 10:00 (Monument) FRIDAY 10 JULY 10:00 (Village Green) SATURDAY 11 JULY 10:00 (Drostdy Arch) DURATION 1hr AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Free 143

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS CAPE MONGO

CREATOR & DIRECTOR Francois Knoetze CAMERA AND DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY (METAL, PLASTIC, PAPER) Anton Scholtz CAMERA (GLASS, VHS) AND DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY (GLASS) Catherine Trollope SOUND DESIGN (METAL, PLASTIC) B00N SOUND DESIGN (GLASS, PAPER) Daniel Gray PERFORMER (VHS) Kaelo Molefe

rtist Francois Knoetze’s Cape Mongo follows the stories of six years, Cape Mongo is the documentation of these performances but Acharacters as they journey through the city of Cape Town. Each also pulls together found footage relating to various issues around Mongo character is made from the city’s discarded waste – mythical housing, food security, inequality and racial segregation, resulting ‘trash creatures’ which have emerged from the growing dumps of in provocative, fresh video art. Rather than merely disposable items consumer culture. In six short films, the creatures revisit the spaces which are purged from our lives as soon as the garbage truck of their imagined pasts – the locations associated with their material disappears around the bend or lie dormant in an ever-widening existence and the constitution of their social relations – as if walking layer in the crust of the earth for future archaeologists to marvel against the consumer-driven currents of city. From postmodern at; Cape Mongo imagines trash objects – specifically, the packaging shopping malls to the bustling streets of the Bo Kaap to leafy of domestic consumables and the electronic devices used to record suburbia and desolate shipping-container yards, these characters’ everyday life – as mnemonic vestiges of the activities that shaped journeys conjure up imagery that touches on some of the historical them. trajectories that have lead up to the endemic inequality and social alienation which characterises present day Cape Town. Cape Mongo is made possible with the funding support from the Knoetze has constructed six wearable sculptures entirely out of University of Cape Town, National Arts Council and the National waste. Performing all over the city of Cape Town for a period of two Research Fund

COMMEMORATION CHURCH HALL, BATHURST STREET OPEN DAILY 10:00 TO 17:00 SCREENINGS ON THE HOUR DURATION 45min AGE RECOMMENDATION PG 13 (VL) 144

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH ARKWORK FOR ART AND ACCESS MUSIC PROJECT PRESENTS TRANS FORMATIONS / TRANS ACTIONS 6TH ANNUAL STREET PARADE

COORDINATORS Gareth Walwyn Kay Mosiane

ow entering Nits sixth year, the National Arts Festival’s participation street parade has established its of community groups, reputation as the gong that signals schools and local and visiting artists, the closing of one Festival and the this year’s street parade will once again possibilities that will inspire the next be a joyous celebration. Festival. Join the crowds who will line the Filled with entrancing sounds, streets of Grahamstown. Sway in your captivating sights, moving textures own trance-like state to the diverse and an inspiring spectacle of different rhythms of bugle bands and the colours the street parade is a broad- cacophony of drums. Or simply stand based community celebration in which by to appreciate how the various skills- giant puppets, stilt-walkers, marching development initiatives such as giant bands and street dancers form a long puppetry, stilt-walking and costume- and colourful procession that winds making offered by the National Arts through the streets of Grahamstown. Festival to community-based artists enables them to become a central part Trans Formations / Trans Actions, of the creative economies. the theme for this year’s parade will celebrate the dual role that the arts Street Routes and the times for Trans play as a platform for social cohesion Formations / Trans Actions will be and as a dynamic force that drives the published in Cue. SATURDAY 11 JULY creative economies. Drawing on the SUNDAY 12 JULY 145 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROCAMORA THEATRE AND WITH SUPPORT FROM THE EMBASSY OF SPAIN PRESENTS SOLOIST AUTHOR, DIRECTOR, ACTOR AND PUPPET ANIMATION Carles Cañellas AND COUNCILLOR ACTRESS Susana Rodríguez COSTUME DOLLS Rocamora Theatre DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TOOLS AND PUPPETS Carles Cañellas, Rocamora Theatre Collective Animation

ith 38 years of professional experience in the theatre, WCarles Cañellas, Dean of the Catalan puppeteers, is considered by international critics as one of the most skilled European puppeteers. He received the Award for Best Puppet Animation at the “11th World Festival of Puppet Art 2007” in Prague, .

Rocamora Theatre is a Catalan company entirely dedicated to the genre of puppets, string-puppet and object theatre. The Company has performed in 254 theatre festivals across 17 countries and 3 continents. They have performed in 6 different languages.

Rocamora’s shows stimulate an imaginative and emotional response from their audiences irrespective of social and cultural factors. Using the art of animation, their fascinating puppets generate a magical effect as they play various characters that try not to fool anyone. The operator is always in full view and the puppet, which becomes the protagonist of the action, acts and is the actor!

Through short stories, Carles Cañellas makes theatre that is full of festivity. When he pulls his puppets out of a suitcase he brings them to life by letting them dance, dream and have feelings. Johnny dances for his minute of fame. Felix the clown balances on a tight-rope and tries to overcome his fear. Pierrot dreams of reaching for the stars and the flamenco dancer, Pepita Repuerto gives all her energy on the stage to win the audience’s heart. The short BOTANICAL GARDENS stories are filled with a delightful AMPHITHEATRE (behind Orney Cottage) dialogue. There is a strong dynamic TUESDAY 7 JULY 12:00 between the actor and the puppet before the puppets are sent back to WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 12:00 the suitcase from which they were THURSDAY 9 JULY 12:00 pulled out. DURATION 1hr (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS Free

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THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH ZEBU AND ASSITEJ SA WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE DANISH ARTS FOUNDATION PRESENTS TRUE CONFUSION

reated for young audiences, True Confusion (Sand Forvirring), Cis a contemporary dance production that allows its audiences to romp around even beyond the edge of stage.

This playful and poetic dance performance challenges the truths we surround ourselves with.

Night follows day. Time can’t go backwards. We can all agree on that. And you mustn’t steal and you can’t walk naked down the street … right? But who decides what is right? And what happens when we disagree? Who is right then?

In True Confusion, dancers, Loa Carlslund and Frej Stenholt Mortensen use dance as a physical, challenging and playful stage language to explore how truth is often connected to authority. Filled with emotion, excitement and drama, the two dancers whose movements are duplicated by fascinating shadows provides a delightful narrative about why humans often have problems getting along with one another

DIRECTORS Jørgen Carlslund & Leiv Arne Kjøllmoen COMPOSER Rasmus Overgaard Hansen LIGHTING DESIGN CONSULTANT Jacob H.S. Rasmussen DESIGN & SCENOGRAPHY PRODUCTION Tobias Foged Permin TECHNICIANS Frederik Skals & Emil Øhlers

DANCERS LOA CARLSLUND FREJ STENHOLT MORTENSEN

‘A fine study of pre-teen children’s growing awareness of everything connected with giggles, blushes and falling in love.’ Anne Middelboe (Teateravisen, Denmark)

MEMORY HALL TUESDAY 7 JULY 14:00 WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 12:00 THURSDAY 9 JULY 10:00 & 16:00 DURATION 45min (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION 8 years + TICKETS Full price R40 Concessions R35 148

THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH SPEELTHEATER HOLLAND STUDIO AND ASSITEJ (SA) AND SUPPORTED BY THE EMBASSY OF THE KINGDOM OF NETHERLANDS (SA) PRESENT RED EARTH REVISITED

ed Earth Revisited is created by killed their cattle and burned their grain. Rthe famous Dutch puppet theatre A migratory stork is the narrator in this company, Speeltheater Holland Studio, vibrant revisiting of the story to determine led by the husband and wife team, Onny if she really was the cause of the disaster Huisink and Saskia Janse. Drawing that ensued. Audiences will be fascinated on actors from South Africa and the to discover if a bird with homes in both Netherlands Red Earth Revisited is a hemispheres is able to offer insight. lively and engaging piece of visual storytelling with puppets, dance and The idea for Red Earth Revisited evolved music. An innovative set and puppets out of a workshop/ masterclass for young have been devised for the production by people in held in Cape Town during 2011. Onny Huisink in collaboration with the The production is made possible with the renowned Keiskamma Art Project. kind assistance of Performing Arts Fund legendary story about day Nongqawuse, NL, Theater De Krakeling, Amsterdam Teamed up with ASSITEJ South Africa, the young girl who prophesied that the and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Speeltheater Holland Studio recreate the Xhosa would be rid of their enemies if they Netherlands (SA)

ACTORS/PUPPETEERS: DIRECTOR Onny Huisink MEMORY HALL MACEBO MAVUSO SCRIPT Saskia Janse THAMI MBONGO PUPPETS CO-CREATORS: Onny Huisink FRIDAY 3 JULY 14:00 ROSHINA RATNAM KEISKAMMA ART PROJECT Cebo SATURDAY 4 JULY 10:00 & 14:00 SHERALYNN ADRIAANSZ Mvubu & Eddy Jange SUNDAY 5 JULY 12:00 SABELO KHOSA DURATION 1hr 15min (no interval) NANCY MASABA AGE RECOMMENDATION 10 + SISIPHO MBOPA TICKETS Full price R40 XOLELA TSILI Concessions R35

#cocreateSA is a platform for South African and Dutch counterparts to exchange ideas and innovations for a sustainable future. If we work together, we can make a difference and co-create solutions for local challenges. Join the conversation on Twitter & Facebook. 149 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH TWIST THEATRE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND POOLSE VIS AND WITH THE

SUPPORT OF THE EMBASSY OF THE KINGDOM #cocreateSA is a platform for South African and Dutch OF THE NETHERLANDS PRESENT counterparts to exchange ideas and innovations for a sustainable future. If we work together, we can make a difference and co-create solutions for local challenges. TEA Join the conversation on Twitter & Facebook. DEVISED AND PERFORMED BY Eveline Agema & Inge Voskamp OATLANDS HALL DIRECTOR Merel van Gaalen PRODUCTION MANAGER Agnes Voskamp FRIDAY 10 JULY 12:00 SATURDAY 11 JULY 10:00 & 16:00 wo strange sisters meet for tea after a long absence. An absurd SUNDAY 12 JULY 10:00 Tphysical comedy of friendship, sisterhood, competition and DURATION 55min (no interval) attraction ensues. Tea is described as “a delicious, tricky tea-party” by AGE RECOMMENDATION All Belgian newspaper ‘De Morgen’. TICKETS Full price R40 Concessions R35 This production is suitable for all ages and its quirky humour quickly draws you in. The Dutch performance company, Poolse Vis, is well known for its entertaining physical theatre and mime performances. 150 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE EMBASSY OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CHINA THEATRE ASSOCIATION PRESENTS THE GUANDONG PUPPET ART THEATRE

f you thought puppetry began and ended with the Muppets, Ithink again. With its frequently paraded 5,000-year history, China often steals the show when it comes to showcasing traditional art forms, and puppetry is no exception.

Founded in 1956, the Gaundong Provincial Puppet Art Theatre has performed extensively at festivals in France, Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Pajkistan, Cambodia, Myanmar and the USA. With colourful stories drawn from Chinese cultural heritage, the company has won major international accolades for their performances with their intricate dolls that are the only remaining example of authentic Chinese puppetry.

Like many of Guangdong’s intangible cultural heritages, few can say for sure how puppetry will fare among generations to come. For now, though, the Guangdong puppet ensemble continues to perform, hoping that one day, the eyes of a little girl or boy in the audience will widen the same way theirs did years ago and thousands have before.

Their South African premiere at the National Arts Festival will showcase a series of short stories, including Chinese fairy tales, mythology and opera.

Audiences attending the show will be provided with a programme that provides a brief background to each of the short stories that will be performed.

VICKY’S FRIDAY 10 JULY 18:00 SATURDAY 11 JULY 16:30 SUNDAY 12 JULY 10:00 DURATION 1 hr (no interval) AGE RECOMMENDATION All TICKETS: Full price R40 Concessions R35

Dance 153 Physical Theatre 160 Poetry 168 Illusion 171 Drama 173 Comedy 198 Family Fare 226 Cabaret /Music Theatre 231

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Key to Fringe Listings

Title of Presenting production company Indicates a première ~ Age recommendation ALL = All ages PG = Parental guidance INTERPLAY P 16/13+ etc. = Ages 16/13 & above Thetha Group ~ ALL Production and reason for recommendation: image Fafa’s husband has recently passed away leaving her S = Sex; V = Violence; hundreds of pieces of his artwork. Happy-go-lucky L = Language; P = Prejudice; Webster can’t find a job and makes his living stealing. M = Mature themes Interplay follows the story of Fafa and Webster as they Ad = Adults only discover how the Internet can create opportunities for them. Interplay features a bright young cast and director NFC = Not for very young children from Joza Township, including multi award winning Xolela Tsili. Credits Director: Thozi Ngeju Writer: Thozi Ngeju, Susan Hansen & Linda Nelani Featuring: Description Xolela Tsili, Sindi Dingana, Mzawanele Jodwana, Lindisipho Swartbooi, Thandiswa Tsili of production

@NG Kerk Hall # 50m ! Xho, Eng Sub titles $ Tickets Show information 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Venue # Duration 10:00 14:00 18:30 14:00 10:00 25 23 21 $ Ticket prices ! Predominant R25 (Full) / R23 (Concession) / R21 (Block Booking) Languages Concession price includes Learners, Students, and Pensioners Performance schedule Free Fringe Indicates that the performers have 50% Fringe signed up for the Free Fringe Festival All Fringe performances which means that their first on 12 July are half the performance on the Fringe is FREE!. Buy-One-Get-One Free full ticket price! Indicates productions that are offering a Buy-One-Get-One Free discount on certain performances. 153

...IF THE WORLD WAS LISTENING P The KZN Dance Productions NPC supported by The Playhouse Company ~ ALL This breath taking contemporary work is a journey delving deep into the mind of self-discovery. In a world of layers; complexities; haste and noise. One would wonder; if the world would pause and turn a willing ear to ones mouth, what is it, that you would say? Director: Leagan Peffer Choreography: Sandile Mkhize in collaboration with the dancers

@Centenary Hall # 40m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 10:00 20:30 16:00 40 36

#TOYITOYI P UJ Arts & Culture ~ ALL This celebratory performance piece incorporates dance, video, and sound design. In a time when corruption has become the norm, we are empowered to express our dissatisfaction through mass movement. The toyi-toyi is a form of rebellion that embraces diversity, creativity and direct action. Experience this ancient form of cultural expression, reborn and remixed for 21st century South Africa - Viva #ToyiToyi, Viva! Choreographer: Kieron Jina

@Centenary Hall # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 10:00 12:00 16:00 19:30 50 45 43

AMALANGABI WOMGIDO P A Project Funded by National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund ~ ALL A dance creative that is moving along side Flame of Dance - creative, beautifully executed movement and dance. Not to be missed! Director: Njabulo Jimmy Sibiya Choreography: Matsidiso Mokoka Featuring: Mbongeni Bodlani and Nobayeni Xaba

@City Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:30 16:30 21:00 20:30 14:30 40 36 34

ARACH-NO-PHOBIA P Dance Direction International & YoungStar Production ~ ALL We are all spiders.... nothing is beyond our reach. We dance this web of conscious creation; weavers of dreams in this comm-unity. Come explore the collective wisdom of contemporary genius to an eclectic blend of MUSE and CHOPIN by exceptionally gifted performers. Choreography: Des van der Spuy assisted by Gabriel Masango Featuring: Gabriel Masango , Helena Noll

@Graeme College # 30m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 17:30 14:00 14:00 10:00 40 36 34

ATOM Youth In Trust ~ ALL It is often said that love can stand the test of time, in this production, set in the era of slavery, we discover what the element is that keeps love strong decades on. We get into the very depth of this word and understand the energy driving this complex emotion and its battles with with issues of mistrust, value, identity and hatred. Atom, the gearhouse of Love. Director: Ayanda Sithebe Music: Thulani Mbovane Featuring: Nomagaliso Tebeka, Mpho Maifadi, Bongani Mthombeni

@Centenary Hall # 30m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 22:00 10:00 22:30 40 36 154

BARBED WIRE WALLPAPER P Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga in association with Clockwork HeART ~ 13+ M When a life is limited to the point of censored, lucid dreams, the imagination itself can no longer roam free. In such a world, weighed down by the relentlessness of reality, the human being seeks to assert its existence as an essentially free being. In the wallpaper her consciousness flees. Choreographer: Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga Featuring: Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga, Dorianne Alexander

@Masonic Front # 45m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:00 12:00 18:00 20:00 18:00 50 45 43

BAYHEAD P Rickshaw Collective ~ 10+ NFC The story of people who breathe life into our industry and drink air from Durban’s Southern Basin. This visual narrative tells of those who stretch their shadows across concrete slabs and see accidental beauty. A gritty tale of steel, smoke and pigeons that uses the body in motion to animate an intricate set Director: Adam Dore Music: Goldfrapp Choreography / Featuring: Shelby Strange

@PJ’s # 40m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 13:30 60 54 51 20:30

BLUE Cape Dance Company ~ ALL BLUE is the culmination of two decades of artistry and tenacity. Featuring works by acclaimed choreographers the CDC deliver in their trademark neo-classical, athletic and punchy style exhibiting remarkable technical virtuosity and artistic skill. A powerhouse of a performance, that includes the all-male work BLUE, it is a feast for the eyes! Director: Debbie Turner Choreography: Christopher L Huggins

@Centenary Hall # 1h ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:00 12:00 14:00 20:30 90 81 77

BOK Underground Dance Theatre in association with the Waterfront Theatre Company ~ PG M “Sexy primal interpretation of Njinsky’s Faun” (Steyn du Toit, Cape Times).“Slickly choreographed [...] necessarily perplexing and complex. The faun, spectacularly embodied by Henk Opperman...” Sarah Roberson, NAF website). Listed as one of the Top 6 Dance shows of 2014 by Robin Malan. (Broadwayworld.com). Choreography: Kristina Johnstone, Cilna Katzke and Steven van Wyk. Music composed by: Heno Janse van Rensburg Featuring: Henk Opperman, Aviwe November, Kopano Maroga, Nathi Sangweni.

@Centenary Hall # 40m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 10:00 18:00 14:00 10:00 90 81 77

CRYING SOULS Mmabana Arts, Culture and Sports Foundation ~ ALL Crying Souls is a fusion of Batswana traditional and western modern dance. The show aims to take the audience on a journey of celebration and nostalgia, using youthful, skilled and experienced dancers. It is a show that will remind us of where we come from as the Batswana people and where we currently find ourselves. Director: Thabo Rapoo Choreography: Lesedi Magomotso

@Centenary Hall # 1h ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:00 22:30 75 64 155

DANCE SPECTRUM 2015 P National School of the Arts ~ ALL Presented by the National School of the Arts’ Dance Department Dance Spectrum 2015 is an exquisite programme of ballet, contemporary and Spanish. Learners of the NSA have been performing at NAF for the last 7 years. This programme will premiere at the Mandela Theatre Johannesburg during March 2015 under the umbrella of Festival of Fame. Director: Manuel Norambuena

@Centenary Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 19:30 21:30 14:00 50 45 43

EAGLES P MDG Performing Arts Academy ~ ALL This piece transforms dancing into an expression of the pure majestic bird in flight and stature but most of all in presence and greatness. A dance piece that portrays and imitates the bold, strong ways of that of the eagle but also the hardships that bring victory. Choreography: Warren Randell

@PJ’s # 1h ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 14:00 20:30 18:30 30 27 26 22:30

FREEDOM Lavender Beamers ~ ALL Love, incest, death... set against the backdrop of political struggle and spanning back 3 decades, Freedom tells the story of two lovers who are forced apart by circumstances of the past. A dance drama that will bring all the skeletons out of the closet! Adapted from: “When Freedom Came”- Beulah Kleinveldt Director: Greg Philander Choreography: Liesle Hendricks @The Recreation Centre # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 17:00 20:30 10:00 50 45

GAUTENG MOTJEKO DANCE Gauteng Provincial Government ~ ALL Modern dance mixed with street dance. This is explsove dance entertainment that will wow the whole family! Director / Choreographer: Louis Baloyi

@Centenary Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:30 17:30 22:00 16:00 30 27 26

GINGIRIKANA MAGAZA AND TSHIGOMBELA University of Venda ~ ALL This dance production aims to bring the youth back to their cultural ways through dance. In using modern dance moves combined with cultural dance, it hopes to interest and engage the youth, encouraging them to consider going back to their roots Director: Junior Muluadzi Writer: Clement Khozas Choreography: Junior Muluadzi & Pearl Netshitungulu @PJ’s # 45m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:30 16:00 22:30 12:00 50 45 43 156 157

HOME P KBT Productions & Here Manje ~ ALL The creators of Below My Feet, (Breathtaking choreography - CUE 2013) and the multi-award winning Here Manje and KBT Productions, bring you, Home. Crossing multiple disciplines; a mother, daughter and grandmother carry the voices of their generations, making Home a piece about time. Writer: Penelope Youngleson Director: Luke Brown Music: Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi Choreography: Ciara Baldwin, assisted by Nathan Bartman Featuring: Thola Antamu, Rudzani Moleya, Ciara Baldwin

@Glennie Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 17:00 17:00 17:00 17:00 17:00 17:00 17:00 17:00 17:00 17:00 70 63 60

I HAVE THE RIGHT TO... P Northern Dance Project ~ ALL I have the right to ... be me, beautiful, strong, educated. Strength is not only physical but mental...beauty of the outer skin seems to be more important to society than what’s within us...education is the key, yet some societies want young girls to be the property of the man...I have the right to... Director: Deborah McFadden, Natisha van der Sandt Choreography: Adele Blank, Celeste Botha, Gregory Maqoma, Deborah McFadden Featuring: Natisha van der Sandt, Chloe Brown

@Centenary Hall # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 16:00 22:30 18:00 12:00 55 50 47

INTWASO Isingqi Sakwa Cultural Group ~ ALL ‘Intwaso’ is when one receives a calling by the ancestors in order for him/her to be able to heal people using herbs. When one has accepted the calling intlombe is performed to celebrate the success of the calling. This is called imvuma kufa – a process that occurs through dreams and visions. Director: S. Maqokolo Featuring: Nomzwabantu, Nombini and Kholekile

@Sundowner Stage, # 30m ! Xho $ Tickets Monument 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 11:00 15:30 11:00 11:00 FREE

ISINGQI SAMAMPONDOMISE Noziphendu Cultural Group ~ ALL This production showcases traditional dance and poetry putting particular emphasis on the rhythms and visual elements of these cultural forms. Director: Nomnikelo Ndabeni Music composed by: Sindile Mtwa

@Sundowner Stage, # 30m ! Xho $ Tickets Monument 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 11:00 15:30 11:00 11:00 FREE ITHONGO LAM Nampri’s All in One Dancers ~ ALL Ithongo Lam is a multi-disciplinary production, bursting with talent and youthful energy. Come and engage with a diverse range of dance music that will excite and inspire you. Supported by ECPACC. Director: Nolupumzo Ncapayi Choreographer: Lundi Mshudulu

@Sundowner Stage, # 30m ! Xho $ Tickets Monument 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 11:00 15:30 11:00 11:00 FREE 158

J’ZEL P ONCE UPON A FIRE P Oakfields College Faculty of Dance Briony Horwitz ~ ALL and Musical Theatre ~ PG NFC Before progress and technology, medicine and money, After last year’s production was described by the CUE as corruption and deceit, before ships, wagons, tanks and “One of the most creative Student Theatre performances bombs - there were people around a fire, telling stories… …” , the Oakfields College Faculty of Dance and Musical Ancient tales of love and conflict, of getting lost and Theatre returns to the Festival this year with an original finding a way home. This multi-disciplinary work delves contemporary dance production, using the classic ballet into a treasure trove of stories from our continent and Giselle as its point of departure. J’zel performs on the beyond. Student Theatre programme on on 5 July at 15:00 and 6 Director: Briony Horwitz July at 15:30 at Graeme College. Refer to the Student Theatre Programme for details. Choreography: David Matamela and the performers Director: Ignatius van Heerden Featuring: David Matamela, Muntu Ngubane, Sandile Shabangu Choreography: Ignatius van Heerden & Weslee Swain Lauder @Centenary Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets @Graeme College # 1h ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 12:00 21:30 16:00 20:00 55 50 47 21:00 17:30 15:30 55 50 47 20:00

JILTED P RITE OF PASSAGE P NAC and Emfuleni Municipality ~ ALL Cape Academy of Performing Arts ~ ALL NFC Rite of Passage is an African dance piece with a hard-hitting story that shares the pain and Rejected, spurned, abandoned, deserted, dumped, agony of women in the African diaspora, where life-threatening practices are encouraged ditched, cast aside and left in despair. The wedding day and continuing, when young and innocent girls are still crying. came, but not the bridegroom. Jilted at the altar with no happily ever after. CAPA returns for their 12th season at Choreography: Nomthandazo Hlongwane Music: Sekuba Bambino the Festival with a new captivating production filled with @City Hall dance, drama and song that will keep you entertained # 1h ! $ Tickets and inspired. “A vibrant performance by talented young 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B songbirds, dancers and dramatists.” Fundile Majola, CUE. 10:00 14:00 22:30 18:30 12:30 40 30 34 Co-Directors: Debbie Turner & Nathalie Vijver Choreography: Michelle Reid

@Centenary Hall # 1h15 ! $ Tickets SILENT PRINTS P 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Khaya Ndlovu ~ ALL 11:30 13:30 14:00 This work is the exploration of the physical feature of the human foot, and and how it 20:00 18:00 20:00 18:30 70 63 60 contains information on human characteristics and human capabilities. The evolution of the human footprint is a global map on human influence on the surface, which suggests that one’s prints are stewards or the beginning of life and the end of ones legacy. LOTJHANI ZINYANYA Project Lathish ~ ALL Written by: Khaya Ndlovu and Tshepo Zasekhaya Director: Khaya Ndlovu Lotjhani Zinyanya is a work that focuses on the practices, @Centenary Hall # 30m ! Eng $ Tickets patriarchal attitudes and the art form of the Ndebele 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B people, looking at their history and how they came to consist of three different groups. 12:00 20:00 18:00 40 36 34 Choreography: Thulani Lord Mgidi and Nicholas Aphane Singer: Busisiwe Ntuli Featuring: Thulani, Nicholas and Nceba Sitokwe

@PJ’s # 30m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 18:30 12:00 40 36 34

MIXED MOTION P SASAD KZN Dance Company ~ ALL Mixed Motion is an exhilarating, integrative collaboration celebrating dance. Experienced and break-through choreographers explore the synergies of ballet, Spanish, jazz, contemporary, tap, hiphop, fused into a molten core of talent, technique and truth. This powerful performance will waken the dancer within your soul. You will be moved. Director: Des van der Spuy; Jenny Walter-Girout Choreography: Leagan Peffer, Kristi-Leigh Gresse, Sandra Kelly, Yolanda Bourman, Ann Boardman, Ingrid White, Julia Hosmer

@Graeme College # 30m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:30 20:30 14:00 21:30 40 36 34

OMO Foot Expression Dance Company ~ 13+ R The production OMO explore the mission of oneself and the challenges what arise in the circle of life, with cross- cultural belief and religion, influencing movement within the passages of life. Director: Thabo Rapoo Choreography: Klaas Kompi Music: Foot Expression Dance Featuring: Andries Tlhasedi, Nompumelelo Bucwa, David Mosudi, Dhlanhla Dlamini

@Dicks # 20m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 10:00 21:30 16:30 45 159

SIPPING LAPPING SLAP P UNMUTE Lexi Meier ~ 16+ N Artscape and Unmute Dance Company ~ 10+ Follow Lexi Meier (co-performer to Liezl De Kock in award Using sign language as the source of the movement winning Piet se Optelgoed) choreographing, performing vocabulary, Andile Vellem has brought together and birthing her final Masters in choreography work. She performers with different dance backgrounds to dwells in apple blossom pools with murky bottoms. She find and explore what they would like to un-mute; drowns listening, cherishing the apple sap, the sipping, feelings, perceptions, social norms, expectations and lapping, slap on the shore… deconstructing what society perceives as dance. Based Choreography & performance: Lexi Meier on Vellem’s experience as a dancer who is deaf, Unmute encourages integration and a way of sharing skills, knowledge and stories. @PJ’s # 40m ! $ Tickets Choreography: Andile Vellum 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Featuring: Andile Vellem, Nadine Mckenzie, Zama Sonjica, Yaseen Manuel 16:00 20:00 22:30 10:00 30 27 @Gymnasium # 45m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B THE FEAR OF LOSS 10:00 10:00 10:00 negatIve entertAinMent ~ 18+ NFC 12:00 12:00 12:00 60 54 51 The Fear of Loss is a new work that speaks to the process 18:30 18:30 18:30 of losing or having lost something: What is Loss? The fact or process of losing something or someone: A UNTITLED P crippling paralysis sinks over you, desperation unnerves Orange Farm Dance Theatre with support from NAC ~ ALL you and you are left feeling empty, directionless and alone... Warning: content deals with sexual and physical Untitled is about a life of oppression, life behind bars, and some not making it back home violence. to their loved ones. Adapting to a new life in a closed environment, learning ways of living and trying to make the best out of it. Choreography: Nadine Joseph Music: Daniel Nubian Featuring: Nadine Joseph and Daniel Nubian Director: Nthabiseng Segoe Music: Nthabiseng Segoe & Chris Pitso Featuring: Nthabiseng Segoe, Chris Pule Pitso, Percy Kgorothe, @Rhodes University # 1h ! $ Tickets Kgoitsimang Mokgomotsi, Lala Mokoena, Palesa Mkhwanazi & Calvin Chiane Swimming Pool @Centenary Hall # 45m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 70 63 60 18:00 13:30 50 25 25

SOWETO’S FINEST KINGS OF SBHUJWA P Sowetos Finest - by Show love ~ ALL Soweto’s Finest is an entertainment entity that specialises in dance and live performances. We pioneer a culture INDIGENOUS and genre called Isbhujwa which originates from Soweto. Isbhujwa is an all in one genre, that started as a way of DANCE AND MUSIC dressing and was referred to as the smoother version of SUNDOWNER STAGE, MONUMENT Pantsula. Writer / Director: Thomas Chauke Choreography: Neo Choko 3 JULY 11:00 Isingqi SamaMpondomise 15:30 Isingqi SamaMpondomise @City Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 4 JULY 11:00 Ukuphuma kweGqirha & 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Isingqi SamaMpondomise 12:30 16:30 10:00 50 45 43 15:30 Ukuphuma kweGqirha 18:30 22:30 5 JULY 11:00 Ukuphuma kweGqirha & UKUPHUMA KWEGQIRHA Isingqi SamaMpondomise Sinomusa Cultural Group ~ ALL 6 JULY 11:00 Intwaso & Ukuphuma kweGqirha Ukuphuma kweGqirha is a celebration ceremony of a female traditional healer that 15:30 Intwaso has undergone a training course. It is beautifully shown through vibrant dance and 7 JULY 11:00 Intwaso music of amaMpondomise. 8 JULY 11:00 Umlilo / Fire & Ithongo Lam Director: Nomonda Kondlo Choreographer: Zukiswa Yoba 9 JULY 11:00 Umlilo / Fire & Intwaso @Sundowner Stage, # 30m ! Xho $ Tickets Monument 15:30 Ithongo Lam 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10 JULY 11:00 Ithongo Lam & Umlilo / Fire 11:00 11 JULY 11:00 Ithongo Lam 15:30 11:00 11:00 FREE 15:30 Umlilo / Fire UMLILO / FIRE Mvanda Cultural Group ~ ALL Mvanda Cultural Group is a youth cultural regeneration group that promotes artistic excellence. The group performs an exhilarating musical dance show that mingles indigenous, modern and contemporary dance pieces. Director: Sindiswa Binase Music Composer: Bonga Binase

@Sundowner Stage, # 30m ! Xho $ Tickets Monument 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 11:00 11:00 11:00 15:30 FREE 160

A GIFT FROM GOD P AFTER DARK IN THE GROOT MARICO P African Tree Production ~ PG R The Pink Couch ~ 13+ When one man’s meat becomes another man’s poison. The creative team that brought you the Silver Standard The stage is set alight for a two-way journey that will take Bank Ovation Award-winning “Mafeking Road” invites you us through lives of two aspiring young actors. This is a play on another trip through the Groot Marico. Sit down with within a play, a trip down personal journey sparked by the Oom Schalk Lourens in the light of the full moon and let lost script. him introduce you to his world of love, music, and a little Director: Alex Motswiri Writer: Kgosa magic… Thekwane Featuring: Sello Maepa, Xolani Dlamini Director: Tara Notcutt Featuring: Andrew Laubscher, Sive Gubangxa @B2 Arena # 1h ! Eng, Zul, Sep $ Tickets Adapted from stories by: Herman Charles Bosman 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB @Glennie Hall # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 10:00 20:00 12:00 16:00 14:00 50 45 43 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 19:00 19:00 19:00 19:00 19:00 19:00 19:00 19:00 19:00 19:00 65 59 55 ACTRESS & GIRL AltEye Productions in association with Masidale Productions ~ 13+ LM ALL GONE ~ A whimsical and dark story about the kindness and cruelty Samnqoba Productions ALL of strangers. Two women stand together on the side of All Gone is based on a true story. Innocent Mhlanga, an empty stretch of road somewhere in the Karoo. They miraculously recovered from a freak road accident perform for themselves and their imaginary audience, which left him disabled, is compensated by the Road struggling with the dark comedy that life has presented Accident Fund. Instead of conserving his hundreds of them. “A delightfully funny yet ultimately chilling tale” – thousands, lavish extravagance soon ensures that all Musho Festival, Melody Stander. “...hard beauty, with its his money is gone. perfect limbs, seen up close and trembling” - Musho Festival, Gisele Turner. Director: Thami Sikhosana Writers: Bongani Mbatha & Director: Simona Mazza Featuring: Maude Sandham, Rachael Neary Thami Sikhosana Featuring: Bongani Mbatha

@Masonic Front # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets @Masonic Front # 55m ! Eng, Zul $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 22:00 14:00 10:00 14:00 18:00 60 54 51 16:00 10:00 20:00 12:00 14:00 50 45 43

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ANOTHER DAY Follow Spot Productions ~ PG S, NFC She didn’t want to leave him. She just couldn’t face another day… Multi award-winning FollowSpot stage their finest dance creation. A new-age love story, featuring Ash and Brad of “Big Boys” fame and Nadine Theron “So You Think You Can Dance”. More captivating, high octane moves. 2014 was a sell out – pre booking is advised. Director: Vanessa Harris Choreography: Vanessa Harris & Ash Searle Featuring: Ash & Brad Searle, Genna Galloway, Nadine Theron

@Kingswood Theatre # 1h ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 14:00 80 72

BARBE BLEUE: A STORY ABOUT MADNESS Gopala Davies & The University of Pretoria ~ 16+ N Barbe Bleue (“Best Director” NAF Student Theatre Festival 2014) is an intermedial performance exploring the effect of madness on a relationship. Through the combination of new media technology with The Tale of Bluebeard, the audience is taken on a comedic and, at times, horrific journey through tumultuous human relationships caused by mental illness. Director: Gopala Davies

@Masonic Back # 45m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 10:00 20:00 18:00 50 45 43

BEING NORM OddBody Theatre ~ ALL Richard Antrobus’ award-winning Being Norm returns to delight audiences with a day in the life of Norman. Using masterful mime, vocal effects and clowning, this energetic comic solo follows the bizarre adventure of one man’s struggle against the universe, which conspires to make his life difficult. Fun for whole family. Writer / Performer: Richard Antrobus

@Memory Hall # 45m ! Eng, Non-verbal $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 18:30 16:00 16:00 14:00 16:00 18:30 12:00 55 50 47

BULLYING Rutanang Community Theatre Projects ~ 13+ Bullying is a piece that intends to highlight the plight of learners/students who are being ill-treated in educational institutions. The challenge also extends to the workplace where employees face the same fate as learners and students. Director: Johannes Kgafela Writer: Johannes Kgafela Choreographer: Bonginkosi Vilane Featuring: Confidence Lukhele, Happy Khafela, Ndosi Vilane

@The Recreation Centre # 1h00 ! Eng, Zul, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:30 14:30 16:30 20:30 50 45

CLOSER TO HOME P Handmade SA Concepts in assoc with Likhono Holding Investments (Pty) Ltd ~ 13+ V A man protests against his current standards of living, mainly unemployment which has led him to greater issues of poverty. He befriends a Somalian who has opened shop in the community while he tries to find a home in South Africa. When conflicts arise and poverty overpowers the mind, xenophobic attacks take charge. It’s survival of the fittest. The “other” is dehumanised. Director: Daisy Spencer Writer: Sifiso Sikhakhane Featuring: Zenzelisphesihle ‘Sparky’ Xulu, Seneliso Dlaldla

@B2 Arena # 1h ! Eng, Zul $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:30 12:00 16:00 14:00 16:00 65 59 55 162

DETRITUS FOR ONE Alan Parker ~ 13+ M All dances disappear. It’s just how they are. Once the dance is done, only its detritus remains – costumes, props and the hazy half-memories of those who saw it. Detritus for One presents a solo performer, determined to remember, retell and recapture dances locked in the past for an audience in the present. Choreography: Alan Parker Featuring: Alan Parker

@PJ’s # 45m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 10:00 14:00 22:30 20:30 50 45 43

DOUBLE-BILL: SYNAPSES & BROKEN CHANT P Art-mo-sphere ~ ALL Synapses: A conversation between the body/mind space, journeying through the sub and conscious, the absurd and the place of dreams. A cross-pollination of multimedia and live performance. Broken CHANT: Exploring ‘broken’ family structures through African contemporary dance with a strong base of traditional South African aesthetics and rituals, threaded through five rites of passage and the use of domestic objects. Director: Khayelihle Dominique Gumede Choreography: Nhlanhla Mahlangu & Sonia Radebe Featuring: Sonia Radebe, Raezeen Wentworth

@PJ’s # 1h05 ! Eng, Zul $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:00 12:00 14:30 11:30 20:00 65 45 45

DREAMS P Andrew Simpson Productions ~ ALL Combining shadow puppetry, breath-taking choreography and amazing visual effects, the brilliant Antrobus (Hats) and Terblanche will transport you into another world as we follow the journey of two destined soul mates trying to find each other. This is not just a show, it’s an experience! A Masterpiece! Writer / Director: Andrew Simpson Choreography: Deon Boschoff Featuring: Richard Antrobus, Estelle Terblanche

@St. Andrew’s Studio 1 # 45m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 22:00 20:00 10:00 14:00 16:00 18:00 14:00 19:30 14:00 69 59

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH University of Limpopo ~ 10+NFC A chapter in the life of girl who was raped and the consequences of her trauma. Becoming a lesbian in the aftermath, she meets a nefarious Nigerian businessman who transforms her into a killing machine … now she is no longer called Kelebogile but killer. Director: Lehlogonolo Sekgatja Writer: Stephen Raseo Choreography: Stephen Raseo Featuring: Serole Nakeng, Thabo Mkhabela

@PJ’s # 55m ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:30 22:30 12:00 14:00 35 32

FATHER, FATHER, FATHER! Robaby ~ 16+ V Three sisters locked in a basement awaiting their father’s return. “…shades of Chekhov’s (twisted) The Three Sisters meets Salvador Dali (in drag)...this ridiculously quirky fantasy, with a menacing twist, underpins a performance piece by three gifted young artists who are creating a zany style and rigorously theatrical language.” Adrienne Sichel. Director: Toni Morkel Featuring: Roberto Pombo, Joni Barnard, Rachael Neary

@Masonic Front # 45m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:00 18:00 20:00 22:00 12:00 70 63 60 163

FLY, EAGLE, FLY! IGNITION P Christian Dance Academy & DaySpring Dance � Eden College Durban ~ ALL ~ ALL The Keepers of Balance travel from the four corners of Family friendly story based on the book. Set in the the Universe igniting Life. Piece by piece they construct Transkei, meet a bird with a confused identity. Is it a Earth’s frame, filling it with Light, Sound and Motion. chicken, or an eagle? Showcasing beautifully authentic Steel Sculpture animated by dance and percussion. costumes, humorous moments, creative choreography, Director / Choreographer: Shlby Strange vibrant foot tapping tunes, inspiring ballet and varied Music composer: Goldfrapp dance styles, it will make you want to fly. Director: Kati Ansell Adapted from: Fly, Eagle, Fly! by SA author Christopher Gregorowski @Vicky’s Upper Lawns # 20m ! Non-verbal $ Tickets Featuring: DaySpring Dancers, Pumzile Zakaza, Unathi Xenti 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Centenary Hall # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 17:30 17:30 FREE 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 20:00 14:00 16:00 60 54 INQINDI P 18:00 First Physical Theatre Company ~ PG L Inqindi is embarking on a journey of how to posit herself HANAMICHI in a society in which images of black women are figures Masidlale Productions ~ 13+ of absence. The historically rebellious clenched black fist Hanamichi is non-verbal, visual theatre masterfully now opens to greet the Other and reveals what they did combining the aesthetics of Japanese traditional theatre not see in her; the fist now opens for a reintroduction. with Afri-European storytelling, based on The Thought Fox Choreography: Nomcebisi Moyikwa by Ted Hughes. “A beautifully crafted piece of work which Music: Seneliso Dladla is technically well executed with effortless movement disguising moments of daring even risky choreography” @PJ’s # 45m ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets (Liz Mills) 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Director: Tristan Jacobs Live musicians: Julian Arenzon 20:30 12:00 18:30 22:30 18:00 60 54 & Katlego Mototso Featuring: Sandi Dlangalala, Megan van Wyk, Kamogelo Molobye, Rita Hlaluka, Lea Vivier

@PJ’s # 50m ! Non-verbal $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 18:00 22:00 12:00 55 50 164

KALAHARI SWAAN KleiSand in assoc with The Imbewu Trust ~ PG L A dream galaxy, a neglected house and an old mining company, is where storyteller and listener dust off the dirt blanket to discover the journey of a young miner earning his freedom. Inspired by Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Kalahari Swaan is a rough discovery of the true struggle for a better life. Writer / Director: Jason Jacobs Assistant Choreographer: Amy Cloete Featuring: Kaylin Coetzee, Jason Jacobs, Courtney Smith

@St. Andrew’s Studio 1 # 35m ! Afr $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:00 10:00 14:00 21:30 40 36 34

KING OF GHOSTS P Modisana Mabale ~ 13+ M King of Ghosts Is an allegorical play, set in the graveyard lead by King Ubuntu whose power to rule relies on the heart organ he inherited from his Grandmother (Gogo). Ubuntu carries the hopes of the village, The play also challenges issues of patriarchal leadership; Ubuntu finds it difficult to acknowledge the legacy of the great Gogo. Director: Letlhogonolo Riba Writer: Modisa Mabale Choreography: Modisana Mabale & Sipho Saba

@B2 Arena # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 18:00 10:00 14:00 50 45 43

PIET SE OPTELGOED Donker Donkie in association with A Conspiracy of Clowns ~ 16+ VM Dark. Brooding. Ridiculously funny. Profoundly unsettling. Catch the mesmerising Liezl de Kock (Crazy in Love, Pictures of You) in her 2014 Standard Bank Silver Ovation and Cape Town Fringe acclaimed show before it goes to Amsterdam. “a nightmare shot through with exquisite rays of humour” – Artsblog. “remarkably original…theatre as art at its best” – WhatsoninCapTown. “If Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote a macabre fairytale and Tim Burton did the staging, this would be it” – Daily Maverick. Director: Rob Murray Writer : Liezl de Kock Featuring: Liezl de Kock, Lexi Meier Soundscape by: Rob Murray with samples from James Webb & Brydon Bolton @PJ’s # 45m ! Non-verbal $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 18:30 20:00 22:00 10:00 60 54 51

PILCROW P Liquid Fusion ~ ALL A writer has lost his wife, and as a result, his words too. He struggles to come to grips with the realities of human expression and our fundamental deficiencies in the face of despair. Pilcrow is a dance play that explores the boundaries between spoken language and movement. Where words fail, what is left to say? Director: Mwenya Kabwe Writer: Daniel Geddes Choreography: Mark Tatham & Daniel Geddes Featuring: Tony Banyatsi, Megan Gottscho, Candice Modiselle, Sanelisiwe Yekani

@NG Kerk Hall # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 22:30 14:30 21:30 45 41 165 166

QHAWE TRANSPARENT P Ukwanda Puppetry & Design Co in assoc with WC Ester van der Walt ~ PG NFC (CHR dept) and the Handspring Trust ~ 10+ NFC Ester knows who she wants to be: Yvonne Rainer; Pina In a valley terrorised by a great snake, a lost child must Bausch; Jonathan Burrows; Andrew Buckland; Jerome Bel; find his way back home and reclaim his birth right. Told Bo Burnham; Rob Cantor; Yo-Landi Vi$$er; Nicki Minaj. She through a cast of puppets, Qhawe is a visual spectacle of thinks it will only take about 45 or 50 minutes to surpass music, laughter, adventure and the courage to face the these masters. She’s wrong, but watching her try is oh so demons of the past – and vanquish them. right! Writer / Director: Mongiwekhaya Mthombeni Writer / Performer: Ester van der Walt Choreography: Gabriel Merchand @Vicky’s # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets @St. Andrew’s Hall # 50m ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 22:00 18:00 12:00 16:00 30 27 26 12:30 16:30 12:30 18:30 20:30 14:30 20:30 22:30 45 41 38 WALTZ P The Gatherings/Intlangano supported by First P THE SYSTEM Physical Theatre Company and endorsed by African Tree Production ~ PG P Creative City Grahamstown ~ ALL After a daring escape from prison, three convicted men try South Africans in the midst of self-discovery find to find safety and a way to clear their names. The System is themselves in a state of reflection where they long for a a thought-provoking physical play told in vivid flashbacks waltz. With the body being a charged space of dialogue that will keep the audience on the edge of their seats. Waltz seeks to excavate and uncover the existence of Director: Alex Motswiri Writer: Kgosa Thekwane South Africans in reclaiming their space: how do we Featuring: Nkosi Yvonne, Dlamini Xolani, Maepa Sello, speak? Mankgaba James, Moathlodi Ikobeng Choreography: Nomcebisi Moyikwa

@Centenary Hall @B2 Arena # 1h ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets # 45m ! Eng, Afr, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 10:00 14:00 16:00 18:00 22:00 10:00 50 45 43 14:00 15:30 18:00 10:00 21:30 60 54 167

WATERLINE P WE ARE ALL IN THE SAME SHOES Uyabona Ke, a project of Creative City Fezile Dabi Art & Culture Centre ~ ALL Grahamstown and Makana Arts Academy, in An electrifying physical theatre piece that reflects the partnership with the EU and NAF ~ 10+ V imbalances of life, which brought differences in societies. A new mask work by Rob Murray (Crazy in Love, Transformation of religious ideology that affected gender Benchmarks, Pictures of You), Waterline is a fictionalised equality motion. and satirical look at Grahamstown’s water crisis. On a quest Director: Lebeko Nketu Writer: Moeketsi Kgotle to find water to win back his beloved, a young man is soon Featuring: Khisi Nhlapo plunged into a world of greed, corruption, and a test of his humanity. Comic, innovative, thought-provoking, and accessible to all languages. The original version won Best Production at the 2014 Makana @The Recreation Centre # 50m ! Eng, Sot $ Tickets Drama Development Festival. 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Director: Rob Murray Featuring: Ayanda Nondlwana, Nombasa Ngoqo, Khaya Kondile, Xolela Tsili, Mandisi Heshu, Mzwanele Jodwana 10:00 12:30 14:30 12:00 16:00 30 27 26

@NG Kerk Hall # 1h ! Non-verbal $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 17:00 18:30 21:30 16:00 16:00 16:30 10:00 12:00 50 45 43

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1606 P Youth In Trust ~ 13+ M 1606 is a combination of song, dance and poetry. The title 1606 refers to June 16, 1976. We revisit that fatal morning using song, dance and slam poetry. 1606 follows key role players from their houses, the conversations they had with parents, friends and others before embarking on the march. We bring to life all elements of mass distractions that were used on the day, from teargas, school uniform, nyalas, stones and the smoke that covered the whole of Soweto. Director: Nelsen Mokoena Writer: Nelsen Mokoe & The Cast Choreography: Themba Mathabela Music: Thulani Mbovane Featuring: Terrance Ngwila, James Sithole, Sibusiso Kwinana, Kagiso Mogale, Keneilwe Saohatse, Luxolo Ndabeni, Ntsika Benya

@City Hall # 1h05 ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:00 14:00 20:30 16:00 18:30 40 36 34

A POET’S REALITY Maggie Cooper ~ 13+ NFC Fantasy merges with reality in this unusual presentation. Biographically focused on the writer Herman Charles Bosman’s second marriage, it also showcases his poem - the portentous ‘Ellaleen’. Interspersed with music, Bosman commentary and the mastery of Poe, it was well received at the HC Bosman Festivals of 2011/2012. (Groot Marico) Writer: Maggie Cooper

@Albany Cabaret Club # 40m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:30 19:00 12:00 50 45

CATALYST P 2050 Legacy ~ 13+ L Hip hop and spoken word performance catalyst tells a story of transformation through the lives of six strangers who find themselves in what could be the end of the world as we know it. Addressing the effects of violence in our society and unearthing visions of a new world. Director: Benjamin Lundberg Writer: Aisha Jordan and Rafael Jordan Choreography: Jeremy Wheat Featuring: Efrain Colon, Monique Desir, Gabriel Gonzalez, Frantz Jerome, Aisha Jordan, Liz Mazzei

@NG Kerk Hall # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:30 22:30 40 36

COMMON SUSPENSE P croc E moses in association with UNISA Press ~ ALL NFC Imagine a drummer turning to slam poetry. This is word wizard croc E moses, now integrating performance poetry, melodic singing and rhythm driven guitar in a show that pinballs between tragic comedy, dance, ceremony, and performance art. He has shared stages with Linton Kwesi Johnson, Saul Williams, Madosini, Derek Gripper and Lesego Rampolokeng. Director: croc E moses Music: All lyrics and music written, arranged and performed by croc E moses

@Masonic Front # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 18:00 12:00 16:00 22:00 55 50 47

ENTRELAZANDO RAÍCES Crossing the Waters Insitute for Cultural Exchange ~ ALL Through storytelling, dance, and drum, Entrelazando Raíces, explores its African roots, breaks down barriers, and reclaims its African heritage. Our performance narrates our present lived experiences, which are informed by the travesty of slavery, racism and the powerful legacy of resistance, survival, and liberation of our ancestors. Director: Ingrid C. Askew Choreography: Brendaliz Cepeda @The Recreation Centre # 1h ! Eng, Spanish $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:00 16:30 12:00 50 45 169 170

WAGNER READING WAGNER: WISH YOU WERE (T)HERE TRISTAN & ISOLDE P Dinah Eppel ~ 13+ NFC Jamie McGregor ~ PG NFC Funny, nostalgic, true, meaningful, these stories enthral, Celebrating 150 years of ’s operatic challenge, and surprise. Crafting remembered ambience; masterpiece Tristan & Isolde, Wagner scholar and Eppel relates simple events from her experience that impersonator Dr Jamie McGregor vividly brings to life contain profound truths and our deepest understanding the composer’s own dramatic reading of his libretto, of the possibilities, and ecstasy, of new South Africa. “... accompanied by a multimedia presentation of the opera (Eppel)....is a modern day Herman Charles Bosman... I was itself. Each of the three performances is dedicated to a captivated.” Dawn Garisch, author. separate act. Jamie McGregor will present an introductory Director: Vanessa Cooke lecture as part of Think!Fest on Tuesday 7 July at 11:00 in the Eden Grove complex. See the Writer/Performer: Dinah Eppel Think!Fest Programme for details. @Masonic Back # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets @Beethoven Room # 2h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:00 12:00 45 41 38 19:30 19:30 10:00 60 54 18:00

WE DIDN’T COME TO HELL FOR THE CROISSANTS: 7 DEADLY NEW STORIES FOR CONSENTING ADULTS P POPArt productions in assoc with Jemma Kahn ~ 16+ LSNM 7 Deadly Sins. 7 writers. 7 new stories. Jemma Kahn and her irreverent sidekick return in the eagerly anticipated sequel to the international cult hit, The Epicene Butcher, with stories that seduce the sinless and astonish the immoral. It’s unmissable and definitely not for children. Unless you are an awful parent. Director: Lindiwe Matshikiza Writer: Lauren Beukes, Tertius Kapp, Rosa Lyster, Lebogang Mogashoa, Nicholas Spagnoletti, Louis Viljoen and Roger Young Featuring: Jemma Kahn & Roberto Pombo

@St. Andrew’s Studio 2 # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:00 22:00 12:00 18:00 16:00 10:00 18:00 10:00 12:00 100 171

ASTONISH MAGIC THROUGH THE AGES Wonga Magic in association with Stuart Lightbody Brendon Peel ~ ALL ~ 10+ For centuries conjurors, illusionists and magicians have The award winning Mawonga Gayiya, from Khayelitsha entertained millions. From ancient Egypt all the way to in Cape Town, has performed his hilarious magic widely the latest TV magic specials. Explore the rich history of from China to Las Vegas. Experience an impossible hour of magic with Brendon Peel and witness demonstrations non-stop laughs and gasps as Mawonga shares his life and of the world’s most famous and infamous illusions that magic. 100% guaranteed to astonish. have changed the magic community. It’s fun, factual, Director: Stuart Lightbody entertaining and definitely not to be missed. Writer / Performmer: Mawonga Gayiya Writer / Director / Performer: Brendon Peel

@Masonic Front # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets @Masonic Back # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:00 20:00 14:00 12:00 20:00 22:00 14:00 18:00 60 54 51 18:00 14:00 18:00 22:00 20:00 18:00 60 54 51

FRAME OF MIND STUART LIGHTBODY: DEVILISH Brendon Peel ~ 10+NFC Stuart Lightbody ~ 13+ The art of mentalism is a strange mix of psychology, This diabolical mix of sleight of hand artistry and trickery and misdirection. Join Brendon Peel as he psychological illusion was nominated for the Theatre showcases his latest psychological illusions which are Award at the Fringe World Festival Perth 2015. Directed by exciting, mysterious and entertaining. The mind is the most the multi-award winning Tara Notcutt and performed by powerful and creative tool we have. Frame of Mind proves Stuart Lightbody (Prague Fringe Festival Creative Award this beyond a shadow of a doubt. 2014), it is filled with wicked wonders. Writer / Director / Performer: Brendon Peel Director: Tara Notcutt Featuring: Stuart Lightbody Writers: Stuart Lightbody and Tara Notcutt @The Highlander # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets @Princess Alice Hall # ! $ 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 1h Eng Tickets 12:00 22:00 12:00 14:00 16:00 20:00 10:00 16:00 12:00 60 54 51 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 70 63 60

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SLEIGHT OF MOUTH 2 : NOW TALK YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS! Marcel Oudejans ~ 16+ L Following the success of “Sleight of Mouth 1” (also at this year’s Festival), comedy magician Marcel Oudejans will once again leave you laughing, intrigued, surprised and enchanted with his hilarious all-new illusions, impressive mental feats, expert sleight-of-hand, and trademark quick wit. Magic and comedy – with a unique twist! Director: Richard Antrobus Writer / Performer: Marcel Oudejans

@St. Andrew’s Studio 2 # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:00 20:00 16:00 22:00 12:00 20:00 75 68 64 173

10,000 Ellandar Productions ~ 16+ LV A slick sci-fi with heart, humour and sword-fights, fresh from a sold out season at Fringe World (Western Australia). Edie and AJ try to reconnect by playing a videogame. (His idea, not hers.) When the game takes over, they find themselves fighting for more than a second chance. Director: Hellie Turner Choreography: Andy Fraser Writers / Performers: Nick Maclaine, Jessica Messenger

@Dicks # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 10:00 15:00 21:00 65 59 55 18:30

66 NOWHERE AVENUE Rebo Multimedia ~ 13+ V 66 Nowhere Avenue will take you on a sinister adventure packed with metaphorical undertones where four teenagers are trapped by their own weaknesses. Will the teens be able to find a way to overcome their weaknesses and overthrow the wicked Mistress? For time can never be bought back. Director: Marisa Fourie Choreography: Lebogang Setuke Writer: Marisa Fourie & Bongi Mtsweni Featuring: Marisa Fourie, Sandra Mokoo, Snehlanhla Mgeyi

@The Recreation Centre # 1h15 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:30 14:00 18:00 60 51

A MAN AND A DOG KBT Productions & Here Manje ~ ALL Fleur du Cap nominated and critically applauded, starring Nhlanhla Mkhawanazi in a virtuoso performance inspired by real events, A Man and a Dog tells the poignant coming- of-age story of a young Zulu boy’s search for the parents he never knew. Director: Penelope Youngleson Writer / Performer: Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi

@The Highlander # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:00 14:00 20:00 16:00 10:00 18:00 22:00 16:00 20:00 70 63 60

AKUSENANI P Thembelani Drama Group ~ ALL Zama is torn between two men – Lolo and Lucky. Lolo’s family don’t want him to marry Zama because her family is involved in selling drugs and she will ruin their family name. Lucky who is Zama’s ex-boyfriend loves her. Zama loves Lolo, but Lolo’s ex-girlfriend will stop at nothing to win him back. a tumultuous story of loyalty and heart break. Writer / Director: Thembelani Martin Ntukwana Featuring: Sihle Masiza, Luvo Xhegwana, Yolanda Xhegwana, Yoliswa Nondonga, Lubabalo Nondonga

@Masonic Back # 1h ! Xho, Eng, Zul $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:00 12:00 10:00 35 32 30

ALEXA – A MOBILE THRILLER P VNA Productions ~ 16+ LM Alexa, a method actress, with the help of audience members is busy preparing for her dream role (Lexa). Literally go on a wild ride through the streets of Grahamstown and see just how dangerous method acting can be… The award-winning concept for the first time in Grahamstown. Get ready for the most thrilling immersive theatre production ever experienced in South Africa! Director: Quintin Wils Writer: Herman Vorster Featuring: Carina Nel, Vianney Farmer

@Meet Outside # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets Rhodes Theatre 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00 20:00 20:00 20:00 18:00 20:00 20:00 18:00 20:00 18:00 60 22:00 22:00 22:00 20:00 22:00 22:00 20:00 22:00 20:00 174 175

ASHES Rust Co-Operative ~ 16+ LM A hard-hitting two-hander chronicling the life of a young gay man through the eyes of six characters. A violent event ruptures their world, forcing them to pick up the pieces in the void that remains. From the creators of 2014 Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award winner, Siembamba. Writer / Director: Philip Rademeyer Featuring: Stefan Erasmus, Jason Jacobs

@Princess Alice Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 19:30 19:30 19:30 19:30 19:30 19:30 19:30 19:30 19:30 19:30 60 54 51

BETWEEN LOVE AND PAIN Poppiehuis Corporate Theatre (Pty) Ltd � ~ 16+ LVNM When couples in a love relationship are not compatible, that affair is bound to fall apart. Their relationship will, at some point in time, become dysfunctional. No matter how hard they work to improve it, eventually it falls down! Director: Mzwamadoda “Mzi” Vava Featuring: Amanda Pintshana, Mhlanguli George Adapted from: This is for Keeps by Mzwamadoda Vava

@B2 Arena # 1h05 ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 12:00 22:00 14:00 20:00 18:00 12:00 80 72 68

BITTER SWEET JOURNEY Abangani Theatre ~ 13+ L Many women find themselves repeatedly drawn into unhappy and destructive relationships with men. They then struggle to make these doomed relationships work Writer /Director: Jullian Seleke Mokoto

@NG Kerk Hall # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 21:00 20:30 17:00 18:00 20:30 19:00 20:00 80 72 68

BLOOD TIED P LadiMash Productions ~ ALL After their parents’ deaths, two brothers find themselves at the opposite ends of the law, one is a police officer while the other one is a criminal. Is blood really thicker than the water when it comes to law and justice? Writer / Director: Mashupe Phala Featuring: Chukudu Manaka, Khutsiso Ramaoka, Tumelo Makgutla

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BROTHERS Umsindo Theatre Projects ~ ALL The story takes us through the journey and life experiences of twin brothers, Goso and Siso, who grew up together but end up as enemies. The death of Goso, who was a well- known politician changes everything, He comes back every night as a ghost to try and help Siso, a hit man, to change his life. Goso is stuck between worlds, and he can’t go on until he fulfils his mission to make things right with his twin brother. Writer / Director / Performers: Musawenkosi and Bongumusa Shabalala

@Masonic Front # 1h ! Eng, Zul $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 20:00 22:00 16:00 18:00 40 36 34

CHARACTER DOOR P Kelsey Stewart ~ 13+ LV Two characters try to break free of their script, but discover that the boundaries between theatre and life are quick to blur, and violence bleeds into one as easily as the other... Clever, compelling, superbly performed, ‘Character Door’ will draw you into the world of the stage, and leave you stranded. Writer / Director: Kelsey Stewart Featuring: Gerhard De Lange, James Sülter

@Atherstone Hall # 45m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:30 19:30 12:30 16:00 21:00 60 54 51 CHOMI Artscape ~ 18+ LNP Set in Johannesburg, Chomi follows the lives of four black Be well organised this year... openly gay 20-something men, following their unique personalities, their trials and tribulations and their greatest Use our online scheduling tool challenge…being themselves. Tragedy strikes the four friends and throws them into turmoil forcing them together to fill every minute withAMAZ!NG to face their inner demons. Provocative, honest and funny, Chomi is a definite must see that seeks to not only explore the modern black gay man but also to entertain. Director: Motlatji Ditodi Writer: Pfarelo Nemakonde Featuring: Anele Situlweni, www.nationalartsfestival.co.za Mandisi Sindo, Robert Haxton, Sipho Mahlatshana, Yanga Mkonto

@Gymnasium # 1h20 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:15 14:15 14:15 16:15 16:15 16:15 60 54 51 18:30 18:30 18:30

COUCH P Wynne Bredenkamp and Emma Kotze ~ 13+ L Civility can be unravelled by the smallest of things. From PANSA New Writer award-winner Wynne Bredenkamp: Couch, a dark comedy-drama about a group of people that happen to be different races. Answering no questions, Couch shows the dilemma of “racelessness” and the hilarity of political correctness as societal mask. Writer / Director: Wynne Bredenkamp Created by: Wynne Bredenkamp and Emma Kotze Featuring: David Viviers, Emma Kotze, Kathleen Stephens

@Princess Alice Hall # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 17:30 17:30 17:30 17:30 17:30 17:30 17:30 17:30 17:30 17:30 55 50 47

CROSSING P Mmabana Arts, Culture & Sports Foundation ~ 16+ NM This story is inspired by Tsitsi Dangarembga’s ‘nervous conditions’. It’s the story of five women who are divided by love but united by fate. Crossing is a metaphor for death. As the harvest gets closer, these women’s stories collide and each woman must decide her own crossing to the other side. Crossing is the story of five women we all know. Writer / Director: Mncedisi Shabangu Choreography: Thabo Rapoo

@NG Kerk Hall # 1h05 ! Eng, Set $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 10:00 14:30 10:00 18:00 75 64 177

CURL UP & DYE DYING LIGHT Flipping the Scripts Productions ~ 13+ L Produced by Corni Bergh, Byron Bure and Marcél Sue Pam Grant’s robust text desires to explore and define Engelbrecht ~ PG L sexuality, identity, tradition and gender. Powerful and “In sickness and in health; from this day forward until death witty, yet an uncomfortable story, it echoes the voices of do us part...” Jason D Martin’s award winning play, Dying women in South Africa. Some are fighting to keep what Light, explores the bitter-sweet love of two young adults, they have, others are fighting for existence. Tom and Jenny, who meet in the most unlikely of places. Director: Karabelo Lekalake Writer: Sue Pam- How will they deal with life’s curveballs? Grant Featuring: Tinah Mnumzana, Michelle Hoffman, Director: Byron Bure Writer: Jason D Martin Mosili Makuta, Gene McCaskill, Marnerl Bester Featuring: Corni Bergh, Marcél Engelbrecht

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DEMOCRACY REPORT EL BLANCO: TALES OF THE MARIACHI P Bapa Theatre Productions ~ ALL James Cairns ~ 16+ M Democracy Report is about a document submitted to the Martyrs to reflect 20 years of Performer James Cairns (Dirt, The Three Little Pigs, The Democracy. Told by two political veterans who voices, though old are still relevant, and Snow Goose) teams up with writer Gwydion Beynon who stand for the varying views on [the death of] democracy. (The Epicene Butcher) to tell the epic, unforgettable and Writer / Director: Given Jikwana Featuring: Siphiwo Makade, Thapelo Mbobosi hilarious tale of El Blanco - The White One. There will be songs, there will be stories. And there will be many lies. @Dicks # 1h ! Eng, Afr, Xho $ Tickets Maravilloso! 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Writer: Gwydion Beynon Featuring: James Cairns 10:00 13:30 19:30 22:00 14:00 50 45 43 @Glennie Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B DEADLIEST CRIMINAL IN JOZI 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 70 63 60 BlackBird Productions ~ 13+ L “You not going to give me the money? You gonna give me the money! “ Based on the true story of the famous hardened criminal Maleven of South Johannesburg, this play explores the reasoning and events that led him to be named the ‘Deadliest Criminal In Jozi’. Director: Londiwe Ngema Writer: Londiwe Ngema Featuring: Sbusiso Xaba, Musa Nkomo

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EVERY BEAUTIFUL THING P Briony Horwitz ~ 13+ LM From the award-winning team behind ‘A Girl Called Owl’ comes a story of two sisters in the aftermath of a car crash. A play about silence and noise. About waiting. About old habits, blood bonds, miracles and spare parts. A play about the strange, powerful moments that carve into memory like water through sand. Director: Tara Notcutt Writer: Jon Keevy Featuring: Briony Horwitz, Jazzara Jaslyn

@NG Kerk Hall # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 15:00 18:00 16:30 22:30 17:00 16:00 65 59 55

EXHALE P MDG Performing Arts Academy ~ 13+ N A young man fighting against his inner self, dressed in a tuxedo, which represents his growth. As he strips off each piece of clothing he reveals his story and re-enactments of the stages one experiences. He ends up wearing nothing, vulnerable to the question of whether of one should come out or not. Director: Tsele Qocha

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EXHIBITION (INSANITY) P TX Theatre Productions ~ 13+ LNP Exhibition is a story of an old painting artist who is an intellectual. The story is about what goes through his mind while creating any other painting. Writer / Director: Mxolisi Masilela Writer: Mxolisi Masilela Choreography: Terresa Phuti Mojela Featuring: Mongezi Mabunda, Bandile Mabunda, Nhlanhla Dube, Itumeleng Moeketsi

@Masonic Back # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:00 12:00 22:00 40 36 34

FACES P Are Takeng New Creations ~ PG LN Smangi is a very brilliant teenage girl suffering from depression exacerbated by having to confront life’s challenges alone, without the support of her ambitious political activist mother. Like many ambitious activists her mother neglects her for the sake of climbing the political ladder. Director: Monnapule Lucky Molapo Writer: Lebeisa Molapo Featuring: Tsagae Serasengwe, Tsholofelo Ross, Kesentseng Madibana.

@Masonic Front # 1h ! Eng, Set $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 20:00 22:00 12:00 40 36 34

FACES IN SPACES Fezile Dabi Art & Culture Centre ~ ALL An emotional journey that provokes unknown spirits through human skeletons. Faces of the unknown depict fate while observers are in a state of confusion. Internal conflicts that reflect in different spaces through faces of the unknown. Emotions escalate, as observers are voiceless. Director: Velile Zwayi Choreography: Mapitso Mpono Featuring: Mapitso Mpono, Moeketsi Kgotle, Lebeko Nketu, Mavis Thota

@The Recreation Centre # 50m ! Non-verbal $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:00 18:30 18:30 18:30 20:30 35 32 30 179 180 181

FATAL P HAMBA KAHLE The Pink Couch ~ 16+ LS Mandela School of Science & Technology ~ PG LV Life can be hard, one of the hardest things we’ll ever Mandela School of Science and Technology will present a do. And it kills us in the end. It’s also ridiculous, fun, and vibrant show that portrays the life of the international icon, completely effing mad. So, send in the clowns, the crows, son of the soil, Nelson Mandela. It reflects his life in Mvezo, the bed-wetting lows, the fudge-finding highs, and join our Qunu and Mqekezwen (the places that made Madiba), his hero as he looks Life right in the kisser. long walk to freedom and his last hours. Director: Tara Notcutt Writer / Director: Luyolo Shabba Sentile Writer / Performer: Albert Pretorius Featuring: Lona Norholela, Songezile Sothuko

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GAME CHANGER P HAVE YOU SEEN ZANDILE Christiaan Schoombie ~ 16+ LM Green Goose in association with Yellow Bunny Productions ~ 10+ M Boy meets girl in Williamsburg, New York. A business engagement morphs into a sexy, dangerous, game- An ode to the Gogos that have raised us, nurtured us changing encounter between two people with a deeper and told us those wonderful enchanting stories at night connection. Gaming vs dating, chastity vs wish fulfilment time. Their memories remain with us long after. Such is in a minefield of modern mores. One thing is certain: the beautiful and emotional journey of Zandile and her neither of these players will remain the same. grandmother. But, in the sweetness of life, lurking in the dark are the mysterious puzzles that disrupt the magical. Director: Fiona Ramsay Writer: Christiaan Schoombie Featuring: Maude Sandham, Christiaan Schoombie Director: Khutjo Green Featuring: MoMo Matsunyane, Zethu Dlomo Writers: Gcina Mhlope, Thembi Mtshali Jones, Maralin Vanrenen @B2 Arena # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets @Vicky’s # 1h15 ! Eng, Xho. Zul $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 14:00 16:00 20:00 18:00 50 45 43 10:00 16:00 16:00 22:30 12:00 90 55 55

GAME OF GROANS P I WANT TO CRY...BUT THIS IS NOT A Andrew Simpson Productions ~ ALL PLACE OR TIME P ~ The first show of its kind! You are invited to the ultimate fun CPUT Performing Arts Society 13+ L experience - a human board game adventure where you I want to cry…. but this is not the place or time is a play the audience compete in a series of awesome challenges penned and directed by Thami Mbongo. The play explores to defeat an evil villain. Everyone plays! Anyone can win! how often we use and misuse the phrases ‘thank you’, ‘I The most fun you’ll have in Grahamstown! Don’t miss it! am sorry’ and ‘I love you’, and the consequences thereof. Created by: Andrew Simpson Writer / Director: Thami Mbongo Featuring: Daluxolo Xusha, Lindisipho Zangqa, Anelisa Vazana, Belinda Musoke, Gontse @St. Andrew’s Studio 2 # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets @B2 Arena # 55m ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 14:00 16:00 20:00 20:00 14:00 22:00 16:00 10:00 69 59 10:00 20:00 20:30 30 27 18:00 GET ATTITUDE P Rising Sun Theatre Production ~ 13+ M I.D.: IDENTICAL DESTINY P The play exposes the scourge of crime and aims to alert Pennsylvania Centre Stage ~ 13+ L the public t(particularly the youth) o the kinds of crimes Finding your roots. What happens when you uncover happening around them: prostitution, child abuse, your ancestry and discover the unknown? I.D. is a hip hop human trafficking and drugs. The play also showcases an theatre piece that explores cultural identity utilising dance, orphan who is turned into a prostitute by the woman who music, and emceeing. promised to take care of her. Director: Steve Broadnax Writer: Glen Gorden aka Writer / Director: Kwena Tlhako NSangou Choreography: Kikora Franklin Featuring: Thabang Moloro, Tebogo Mogale, Maria Manaka Featuring: Megan Pickrell, Aaron Densley, Marco Munoz, Cecil Blutcher, Anastasia Peterson, Courtney Brown, @NG Kerk Hall # 1h05 ! Eng, Ven, Sep $ Tickets Malena Ramirez, Elizabeth Stewart, Jake Wentlentt, Vaughn Davis 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB @The Recreation Centre # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 12:00 15:00 16:30 19:30 12:00 22:30 60 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 16:00 12:30 14:30 18:30 40 36 34 GHOST OF GLENMORE Xabiso Zweni ~ 10+ I’M NOT GOING TO REHAB, I’M GOING TO Ben was ravaged by the apartheid government in South MAURITIUS! P Africa. Ben is destroyed by the democratic South Africa. Corinne Willoughby ~ 18+ M Where to from here for him and multitudes in his position on this proverbial boat in the new dispensation? “People This is a chuck out of the lives of two women. It’s an died in Glenmore” – why does Ben want to dig up these everyman story. We all encounter loss in one way or graves? What truth lies there? other and we all question why and where our paths lead thereafter. This is a journey through which two woman Writer / Director / Performer: Xabiso Zweni emerge from their separate dark passages triumphantly. @Masonic Front # 1h ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets Director: Louwrens Orsmond Music: Anthony Caplan 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB Writer / Performer: Corinne Willoughby 14:00 12:00 18:00 10:00 45 41 38 @St. Andrew’s Studio 2 # 45m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 10:00 14:00 18:00 12:00 50 45 43 20:00 182

IN THE WINGS Chaeli Campaign ~ ALL Wheelchairs are tricky things. This Naledi nominated play looks at what life is like with a disability. In the Wings is a play about purpose – about a family living and negotiating the everyday stuff. It’s about dreams and the stuff that gets in the way of realising those dreams. Director: Philip Rademeyer Writer: Jared Kruger Choreography: Nicola Elliot Featuring: Danieyella Rodin, Bo Petersen, Emma Kotze, Daniel Richards

@Masonic Front # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:00 22:00 16:00 10:00 10:00 60 54 51

INN TIME P Youth In Trust ~ 16+ LVNPM Inn Time captures the raw and wildly passionate nature of an animalistic love between two gorillas in captivity - Mark and Mindy. These lovers face the trials of a modern human couple, they decide to solidify their union with reproduction, however a terrible turn is discovered and agony begins for the two souls.... Director: Tshepo Ratona Writer: Tshepo Ratona Featuring: Terrance Ngwila, Sisekho Velelo , Willy Mpofu, Kagiso Mokgale

@Vicky’s # 1h05 ! Eng, Xit $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 10:00 22:30 20:30 10:00 40 36 34

INTERPLAY Thetha Group ~ ALL Fafa’s husband has recently passed away leaving her hundreds of pieces of his artwork. Happy-go-lucky Webster can’t find a job and makes his living stealing. Interplay follows the story of Fafa and Webster as they discover how the Internet can create opportunities for them. Interplay features a bright young cast and director from Joza Township, including multi award winning Xolela Tsili. Director: Thozi Ngeju Writer: Thozi Ngeju, Susan Hansen & Linda Nelani Featuring: Xolela Tsili, Sindi Dingana, Mzawanele Jodwana, Lindisipho Swartbooi, Thandiswa Tsili

@NG Kerk Hall # 50m ! Xho, Eng Sub titles $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:00 18:30 14:00 10:00 25 23 21

INZILO (ITS BEHIND BE) P Sihlangene Sisonke Development ~ ALL This production tells the story of a widow’s journey through the mourning of her husband, relating the hardships she had endured because of inlaws and general African beliefs. The story is told through narration and dance, and the storyline is underpinned by deep African music and the use of the traditional Djembe drum. Writer / Director: Mthobisi Soko Featuring: Mandla Masilela, Nomveliso Tshabala

@The Recreation Centre # 1h ! Eng, Zul $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 20:30 21:30 19:00 12:00 20:30 50 45 43

JIKA Goiwil Productions ~ 13+ L Jika intends to suggest ways in which poverty, squalor and political rhetoric could be eliminated. In grappling with the philosophy of critical consciousness, it attempts to show practical ways to get our country out of the political and economic quagmire after “revolution”. Once South Africa dreamt that revolution was the only way to solve her problems, now a negotiated settlement is the reality. “Re tla re re re ke dipitsi ra bona ka mebala” (you can’t tell a zebra but for its stripes). Director: Moses Lechuti Writer: Maishe Maponya Featuring: Styx Mokejane & Goitsemang Pholo

@PJ’s # 1h20 ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 20:00 18:00 80 72 68 183

JOHNNY BOSKAK IS FEELING FUNNY P Untouchable Productions ~ 13+ L Where does Johnny Boskak fit in the new South Africa? Is he a white trash dinosaur? Or is he the last cowboy hero in boots and jeans? What we do know is that he’s on the road, looking for love, redemption, an AK47 and the quickest way out of Secunda… Director: Roslyn Wood-Morris Writer: Greig Coetzee Featuring: Craig Morris

@NG Kerk Hall # 1h15 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:00 12:30 22:30 18:30 20:30 12:30 70 63 60

KAFKA AND SON Theaturtle/Threshold, Richard Jordan Productions ~ 13+ M Franz Kafka’s epic battle with his father, to whom he confesses, “All my writing was about you!” Outstanding performance, Prague Fringe.“Funny, heart-breaking, chilling” ***** CBC . “Spell-binding… flawless.” Broadway Baby. “Edgy energy, booming heart” Edinburgh Guide. ‘Pure unadulterated surreal goodness’ VueWeekly Canada. Director: Mark Cassidy Adapted from: Franz Kafka’s Letter to His Father by Mark Cassidy and Alon Nashman Choreography: Claudia Moore Featuring: Alon Nashman

@St. Andrew’s Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:30 16:30 14:30 12:30 18:30 14:00 60 54 51

KAFKA’S APE Art-Mo-Sphere ~ 10+ NFC Told with confrontational energy and the ambiguity of a half human, half ape, Tony Miyambo brings the ape character alive with vigour and unpredictability that puts the one-hander into the absurd territory. Red Peter laments on his internal journey that speaks to an evolving self whose identity-betwixt is both tragic and somewhat a spectacle. Director: Phala O. Phala Featuring: Tony Bonani Miyambo Adapted from: Franz Kafka’s The Report To An Academy≈

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KIND(S) P In-Box Productions ~ 13+ LM Inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s female characters, Kind(s) examines the secret, sometimes neurotic inner life of two seemingly diverse South African women, juxtaposed against the constant effort to keep up appearances and fulfil traditional roles. A chance encounter, ignoring the blatant physical intimacy of the situation, leads to disconcerting admissions. Director: Karina Lemmer Writers: Jenine Grove and Ingrid Hlatswayo, Inspired by Henrik Ibsen Featuring: Jenine Grove, Ingrid Hlatswayo, Given Maluleke

@St. Andrew’s Studio 1 # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 18:00 22:00 12:00 55 50 47

MAKING MANDELA Hello Elephant, KBT Productions, SA State Theatre ~ 13+ M An imaginative journey through the childhood of Nelson Mandela featuring colourful characters, vividly portrayed in beautiful masks, with physical performances supported by emotive sound design and theatrical styling. This is the story of what influenced the rural boy to become Be well organised this year... the global legend. “An unmitigated delight” Christina Kennedy, Business Day. Use our online scheduling tool Director: Jenine Collocott Writer: Nick Warren and Jenine Collocott to fill every minute withAMAZ!NG Featuring: Jaques de Silva, Mlindeli Zondi, Barileng Malebye

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LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTIONS P MORWA THE RISING SON Andrew Simpson Productions ~ 16+ PM Artscape ~ 13+ One of SA’s leading experts in the field of mind, body, spirit The story of Morwa, a young Motswana Man and his consciousness Andrew Simpson leads an engaging Q&A journey of discovering what it means to be a man. A debate with the audience on the great questions of life combination of story-telling, presentational theatre and from psychology to spirituality. You bring the questions, ritual, this production is based on personal narrative with a we find the answers! Perfect for fans of Deepak Chopra desire to evoke dialogue and a better understanding of the and Eckhart Tolle etc. challenges faced by young men in Africa. Featuring: Andrew Simpson Director: Warren Nebe Writer: Tefo Paya Music: Volley Nchabeleng Featuring: Tefo Paya, Volley Nchabeleng @The Highlander # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Gymnasium # 1h ! 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Director: Given Maluleke Featuring: Ingrid Hlatswayo Writer / Director: Bonginkosi Shangase Writer: Given Malueke and Ingrid Hlatswayo Featuring: Bongani Mbatha, Khulekani Kunene, Musa Mtambo, Linda Ndawo, Sphamandla Zwane, @St. Andrew’s Studio 1 # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets Paulette Doh Khwela & Sbongile Mthethwa 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @City Hall # 1h30 ! Zul, Eng $ Tickets 10:00 16:00 12:00 17:30 50 45 43 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:30 18:30 12:00 22:30 60 MR KAKENDE IS IN SH.... P Siyabona Productions ~ ALL MIDNIGHT Dead or alive, all the Mr. Kakendes must account. Screaming and kicking, Jesus must come down. A multiple character and situation two-hander by versatile performers takes BlackBird Productions ~ 13+ L us through the turmoil, temptation, test and resolve of the engulfing corruption. Produced There’s magic at midnight. We are always waiting for by national silence and directed by our conscience. change, waiting for a better day and midnight knows it Producer / Director: Lizo Koni too. Five characters spend their lives waiting for the magic change that happens once a lifetime that promises to @B2 Arena # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets bring anything they’ve ever wanted. What happens when 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B midnight comes around? 10:00 18:00 12:00 16:00 12:00 60 54 51 Writer / Director: Londiwe Ngema Featuring: Chuma Mapoma, Mthokozisi Zulu, Jamy-lee Simons, Thandeka Ngidi and Pretty Ncayiyana NOMZAMO ~ @Masonic Back # 50m ! Eng, Xho, Zul $ Tickets Hillbrow Theatre Project PG NFC 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B The Hillbrow Theatre Project’s Nomzamo, directed by Gcebile Dlamini, won the Naledi Award for Best 10:00 16:00 22:00 65 59 55 Community Theatre Production in 2013. “The three actors 20:00 are some of the strongest, most inspirational women I have ever had the privilege of watching onstage” – Ashleigh MIRRORED FLAWS P Harvey, EADS Adjudicator, 2013. Thando Baliso in collaboration with AkaMbongo Writer / Director: Gcebile Dlamini Productions ~ 10+ LSM Featuring: Neliseka Malinga, Thobeka Malinga, Kediboni Rasekhula A teenager in a community embroiled in drugs, money, social media and sex, runs away to escape sexual abuse @Atherstone Hall # 40m ! Eng, Zul $ Tickets by a so-called trusted relative and the sorrow of recently 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B losing a parent. On the street she is alone, scared and without shelter but attends school even under these 10:00 16:00 17:30 22:00 10:00 40 36 34 circumstances. She becomes prey to ruthless beings and to survive becomes a lady of the night. OPEN P Director: Thando Baliso Choreography: Thando Wambi Curro Aurora Arts ~ 13+ M Featuring: Lindisipho Zangqa, Anelisa Vazana, Belinda Musoke, Gontse Tau, Naphakade Maki, Nkosinathi Matomela “Your mind is like a parachute, it works only if it’s open.” Your mind, like a parachute, is designed to keep you from @Oatlands Hall # 1h ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets falling. Get wrapped up in it and be warm, but the impact will shatter you! 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PEOPLE ARE LIVING THERE P SEARCHING FOR SOMEBODY Blythe Stuart Linger and Qondiswa James ~ 13+ L Irene Stephanou ~ PG L, NFC When the lonely and isolated Milly, a woman on the brink Irene Stephanou returns with her brand of humour, pathos of turning 50, decides to rope in Don, a student, Shorty, and passionate performance in the story of Gabi, the a dim-witted newly-wed, and Sissy, his wife who knows manageress of True Elegance Drycleaners as she struggles her way around men, to join in her birthday festivities. A with her two incurable diseases: multiple sclerosis and celebration full of regret, bitterness and absurdity erupts. being a white South African. “Aristophanes would have Director: Blythe Stuart Linger Adapted from: Athol been proud,” applauded renowned advocate George Fugard by Blythe Stuart Linger and Qondiswa James Bizos. Director: Clara Vaughan @B2 Arena # 1h30 ! Eng $ Tickets Writer / Performer: Irene Stephanou 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB @St. Andrew’s Studio 1 # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 16:00 18:00 22:00 18:00 20:00 55 50 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 10:00 18:00 12:00 22:00 14:00 16:00 60 54 51 RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS Artscape ~ 13+ L It is 2014, twenty years after the inauguration of Nelson SILENT MONEY P Mandela as the first democratically elected President University of Venda ~ 18+ SN of a post-apartheid South Africa. There are many who Silent Money is about a young couple, Grace and Malcolm, and Grace’s boss, Alfred, who have given their lives and sacrificed much to bring about goes the extra mile to show how much he loves her. Grace thinks money is the answer to the “New South Africa”. They are keen to know whether any problem, and ends up ignoring Malcolm. Malcolm then finds comfort from Grace’s their sacrifices have been worth it. These ancestors send friend. a delegation of two – Steve Biko and Neil Aggett – to Director: Banele Assension Buswakwe Featuring: Clement Khoza, Tracy Nzima, experience the country as it is now, & report back to them. Nelly Nkhonto, Banele Busakwe, Nonsie Fakude, Sandra Ravhuhali Director: Mdu Kweyama Writer: Mike van Graan Featuring: Mandisi Sindo and Siya Sikawuti @The Recreation Centre # 1h15 ! Eng, Zul, Swa $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB @Gymnasium # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 18:00 14:30 12:00 20:30 30 27 26 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 20:30 20:30 12:00 60 54 51 SIMPLY SAPIENS P Untouchable Productions ~ ALL RICHARD III Simply 3 Acts. 3 Directors. Crossing - Violence…catalysed… Tufts University Department of Drama and Dance recycled through Language. V(i)r(us) - Viruses. In us. On us. ~ PG V Will a mind virus (meme), end us? Going Static - Two guys in a car. The only thing moving them forward, are scraps of In 2012, University of Leicester archaeologists announced meaning, breaking through static on the radio. the discovery of King Richard III’s remains under an office parking lot. The discovery humanised Shakespeare’s Written & performed by: unrepentant tyrant. This energetic ensemble production Greg Melvill-Smith & Craig Morris plays against the Tudor propaganda of Shakespeare’s @PJ’s # 1h05 ! Eng $ Tickets script, questioning the narratives of power that rewrite history to suit their own ends. 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB Director: Gibson Cima Choreography: Danielle Rosvally Music: Nathan Leigh 10:00 12:00 16:00 16:30 18:00 14:00 70 63 60 Featuring: Marcus Hunter, Emma Wold, Adele McAllister, Yuval Ben-Hayun, 22:00 Tessa Barlow-Ochshorn, Tyler Beardsley, Jack Cramer, Drew Page, Kira Patterson @NG Kerk Hall # 1h30 ! Eng $ Tickets SINGAREVVA AND THE PALACE 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB Kriyative Theatre ~ ALL 10:00 20:00 12:00 12:00 40 36 34 A powerful solo theatre performance piece that depicts the suffering of women in feudal India. Created by the award winning duo of Lakshmi Chandrashekar (actor) and ROSE RED Soumya Varma (director), the play has seen close to 100 Twist in the Tale Productions ~ 10+ M shows and won accolades in national and international The well-known fairy tale, Snow White, told through the festivals. eyes of the Evil Queen. This multi-layered cabaret allows Director: Soumya Varma us to hear the other side of the classic story. Wickedly fun, Writer / Performer: Lakshmi Chandrashekar thought provoking and touching, it features songs by Tori Amos, Cold Play, Lady Gaga, and others. ‘Flawless’ – The @Masonic Back # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets Daily Maverick. ‘Mad brilliance’ – Artslink. ‘A bewitching 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB and faultless performance’ – West Cape News. 10:00 20:00 14:00 20:00 45 41 38 Director: Pieter Bosch Botha Writer / Performer: Dianne Simpson SMAARTIES @Vicky’s # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets AbstrACT Productions ~ 10+ LV 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB An award winning powerful one-man show about Mr Lotz 14:00 20:00 20:00 12:00 14:30 10:00 14:00 60 54 51 who finds himself in a psychiatric ward after the death of both of his parents while he still has a 12-year-old sister he has to look after. Described by critics as ‘compelling!’ SA LT (BroadwayWorld), ‘Excellent!’ (Artslink), ‘mind-blowing’ Wynne Bredenkamp ~ 10+ V (BizCommunity) and ‘outstanding!’ (Grapevine). Salt was considered ‘…nothing short of brilliant.’ and ‘… Director: Quintin Wils Writer: Jannes Erasmus something special’ (CUE, 2014) and won a 2014 Standard Featuring: Jannes Erasmus Bank Ovation Award and a PANSA New Writer Award. Intermingling movement and drama, it follows Aya, a long- @B2 Arena # 1h ! Eng, Afr $ Tickets term psychiatric patient, who encounters a new doctor 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB intent on dragging her out of her drug-induced amnesia. 12:00 18:00 14:00 16:00 55 50 47 Writer / Director: Wynne Bredenkamp Featuring: Emma Kotze, David Viviers

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STAY AWAY FROM BOYS! P THE DIVINE OSCAR Sedilaka Productions ~ PG M Peter Gilchrist ~ ALL Stay Away From Boys! explores emancipation from family, the trap of out-dated ideologies, Based on the life and works of Oscar Wilde I portray my and finding oneself after tragedy and triumph. Devised by Khaya Mthembu and Mbasa adoration for Lord Alfred Douglas, ‘My beloved Bosie’. Tsetsana, this play takes a visceral tour through childhood using the body as vehicle. But I also fell hopelessly in love with Lily Langtry and Director: Thuba Mthembu Writer: Khaya Mthembu &, Mbasa Tsetsana subsequently Constance who I married! A delightfully Featuring: Khaya Mthembu, Mbasa Tsetsana absurd Lord Goring and his manservant Phipps revel in the macabre story, Picture of . @Dicks # 50m ! Eng, Zul, Xho $ Tickets Director: Helen Houghton 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Writer / Performer: Peter Gilchrist

12:00 16:00 21:30 15:30 60 54 @St. Andrew’s Studio 1 # 45m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B SUSTER P 20:00 12:00 16:00 20:00 60 54 51 VNA Productions ~ 13+ M From the writer and director of the 2014 award winning THE GIRLS ‘Smaarties’ comes the next part in the trilogy. ‘Suster’ Wushwini Arts, Culture and Heritage Centre with follows the journey of Sybil, a lady diagnosed with Multiple support from DSRAC KZN ~ 10+ M Personality Disorder after the death of her parents. What really happened the night her parents died, or did they…? International award winning drama that centres on the 139 One actress, multiple characters and a world full of girls who were abducted on October 9th 1996 from their possibilities…! boarding school in Uganda. The Girls also supports the abducted children by Boko Haram in 2015 and all other Director: Quintin Wils Writer: Jannes Erasmus children affected by civil wars and rebels. Featuring: Carina Nel Directors: Roel Twijnstra, Jerry Pooe @B2 Arena # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets Writer: Roel Twijnstra and Kees van Loenen 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Featuring: Buhle Nkomo, Philisiwe Twijnstra 10:00 @Masonic Front # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 10:00 14:00 20:00 55 50 47 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 TEARS OF A WOMAN P 18:00 12:00 14:00 50 Art in Motion Projects ~ PG13 N This piece portrays the elements of forgiveness and THE GREATEST GIFT FROM ABOVE identity as it takes us on the journey of a young lady, Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation: through the ups and downs of her life, to self-discovery/ Free State ~ 13+ LM Will she discover the secrets her mother has been keeping? The play tells of a miner, Blacky Madonna, his wife, Rosy and their son, Junior. After 20 years of marriage Blacky Writer / Director: Rapula Khumalo hears from a nosy bird that Junior is not his legitimate son. Featuring: Lydia Ntsohi, Masego Nkomo, Khumo He leaves them to go and stay in a sheen where he drowns Motshwaedi his sorrows @B2 Arena # 1h ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets Director: Seipone Nkwadipo Writer: Firtz Gerald 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Goeieman Featuring: Mosili Makuta, Thabang Matlali, Tseko Monareng 10:00 14:00 12:00 45 41 38 20:30 @Atherstone Hall # 1h ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B THE 3 LITTLE BITCHES P 18:30 12:00 20:00 12:00 16:30 50 45 43 Ensemble ~ 16+ LVNR He is the Rejector, I’m the Rejected...., He is my Priority, I’m his Option..., I just need to THE ISLAND convince him to marry me and everything would be all right, you see..., Give him time, The Hexagon Theatre ~ 13+ L soon he’ll be excited to be with me. I know how to fix my man. 1973 - John and Winston are two prisoners on Robben Director: Jefferson J. Dirks-Korkee Island, bound by ideology, proximity, shackles and a Featuring: Jane Mamotse Mpholo, Keabetswe Motlhale, Amee Lekas deep affection. John learns that his release is imminent; Winston is a lifer. This classic South African play balances hope and despair as it exposes the depths of cruelty and @Masonic Front # 1h ! Eng, Afr, Sot $ Tickets inhumanity while affirming the dignity and courage of the 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B human spirit. 10:00 14:00 22:00 16:00 50 45 Director: Peter Mitchell Featuring: Mpilo Nzimande, TQ Zondi Writers: Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntsho THE CORE @Masonic Back # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets Nhluvuko Enlightenment Productions with 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Support from NAC ~ 16+ M 16:00 12:00 22:00 14:00 18:00 50 45 43 Born a normal child, intelligent and full of zeal. She had 20:00 great talents and dreams…normal qualities for most children. But her dreams have now turned into nightmares because of the ills of the unkind society that she grew up THE LEGACY in. She’s a survivor with a flaring temper that was born out Masifunde Learner Development ~ 13+ LM of frustrations. The Legacy is a story about a young girl in high school. Writer / Director: Selaelo Maredi Featuring: Lerato She has big dreams about one day becoming as iconic as Mokhele , Nkantu Luscious Dosi, Siphelele Mshubi, Phakamani Zikhalala the Father of the Nation, Tata Nelson Mandela. But with an alcoholic mother, and choosing the wrong friends down @Masonic Back # ! $ 45m Eng Tickets the line, are those dreams still possible...? 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Writer / Director: Zena Bally Featuring: Buhle Botha, 10:00 18:00 22:00 12:00 35 32 Thandolwethu Nyepha, Zingisa Mbanga

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THE LIGHT P THE METAMORPHOSIS Central University of Technology, Free State DSG and St Andrew’s College ~ 10+ NFC ~ PG M “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy A teenage girl is ambitious to become a dance champion dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into but is struggles with the high tuition fees. She decides a gigantic insect…” The tragically strange tale of a to join her friend and seek employment at the mines travelling salesman, who awakens one day to find himself to raise money. Unexpectedly she is challenged by an inexplicably transformed into a hideously monstrous underground city run by the illegal miners, a city full creature. This visually stunning multi-media production of gang wars and corruption, and is easily swayed by will intrigue and enthral audiences. prostitution. Suddenly the unthinkable happens and, Director: Wesley Deintje Writer: Steven Berkoff together with her friend, she gets trapped underground, unnoticed. Music: Catherine Linklater Director: Tshedise Tlali & Tiki Monatisa Writer: Lebohang Molelle Featuring: Dieketseng , Chizzy, Mosala, Solo, Nduna, Skhumba @St. Andrew’s Hall # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @City Hall # 1h ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets 14:00 16:30 20:30 14:30 50 45 43 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:30 19:00 14:30 20:30 50 45 43 THE NEEDLE Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation: Free State ~ ALL NFC THE LONER P Slick ‘n Sleeve ~ PG M They don’t care! Yes, they don’t care at all! The only people who are going to worry about our hunger are us – the hungry ones. We will not remain silent forever. Do we really A one-man play about the last man left on earth. Or so he believe that there is a lack of land in our country? When people like the Ndlovus have this thinks... A solitary figure silhouetted against a desolate, much all to themselves. The question is, actually. who in our nation should this question barren landscape. Will hope survive when fate has be addressed to? forsaken humanity? A tour de force in which the audience is taken on an epic journey within a South African, post- Director: Belina Medupi Writer: Nuna Masasa Featuring: Deaf students apocalyptic world. @Masonic Back # 1h ! Eng, Xho, Set $ Tickets Writer / Performer: Scot Cooper 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Vicky’s # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 12:00 18:00 14:00 12:00 16:00 50 45 43 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 22:00 20:00 18:00 18:30 12:00 50 45 43 192 193

THE NEXT MRS JACOB ANDERSON Endless Productions ~ 16+ M The South African adaptation of The Next Mrs Jacob Anderson will keep you glued to your seats as Lisa and Mrs Anderson played discover the love they share for one man. Through a heated confrontation, Mrs Anderson and a defensive Lisa, unfold a dramatic story filled with secrets and lies, leaving both women deceived. Director: Kimberley Buckle Adapted from: The Next Mrs Jacob Anderson by Anne Wuhler Featuring: Andrea Minnaar, Shannon Williams

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THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA P KBT Productions ~ 10+ M A timeless story [adapted from the Ernest Hemingway novel] which speaks to the indomitable spirit of man and the universal truths of a man’s existence within this world, where pride, respect, tenacity, and dreams fuel a man in his quest to thrive in the face of struggle. Director: Jenine Collocott Adapted by: Nic Warren Featuring: Brendan Grealy, James Cairns, Taryn Bennett

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THE ORPHAN OF GAZA Eliot Moleba ~ ALL After a rocket attack, a little boy is told that his parents have gone to a better place. Armed with a makeshift aircraft, helmet, GPS and a cockpit full of courage, he and his pet plot a journey to search for them. Director: Eliot Moleba Writer: Eliot Moleba

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THE PEN Godfather on Production ~ 13+ LVS The Pen takes audiences on a trip into the mind of a young playwright in the throes of writing a new play. Affected by writers block, the playwright is drawn into a relationship with his Muse. Lured into a seductive journey, the boundaries between fantasy and reality become blurred as he begins to live in an increasingly illusionary world dominated by his sexy, assertive writing goddess. Director: Masedi Godfrey Manenye Writer: Monde Mayephu Featuring: Mpendulo Troy Myeni, Rondo Mpiti, Shona Potgieter

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THE RETURN OF ELVIS DU PISANIE Hijinks Theatre Company ~ PG NFC “This play is one of SA’s classics that doesn’t seem to date: it just gets richer. A theatrical delight which leaves you breathless just thinking about it: and it doesn’t disappoint onstage” – (Artslink, Robyn Sassen 2014). A depressed and sentimental 49 year old is at the crossroads of life – standing under a lamppost, opposite the ex-Carlton Bioscope in Witbank – he contemplates. Director: André Odendaal Writer: Paul Slabolepszy Featuring: Lionel Newton

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THE RISE AND FALL TIN BUCKET DRUM Sisonke Art Productions ~ 10+ M Jade Bowers Design & Management with UJ Arts & When she was 13 Sarah was kidnapped by Rebels and forced to become a soldier in the Culture ~ PG NFC LRA. She survived the longest-running guerrilla war in modern history. Winner of five Tin Bucket Drum, in its close and minutely explored world, SANCTA 2015 awards: best actress, supporting actress, set, light and sound, outstanding takes a broad swipe at age old global systems of restriction production. enforced for personal gain by those in power, and the way Writer / Director: Herbert Mokoena Featuring: Pretty Masilela, Mandla Masilela, these restrictions affect the person on the ground. Above Bonisile Mahlangu all it looks, rather optimistically, at the power of creativity. Director: Jade Bowers Writer: Neil Coppen @Oatlands Hall # 45m ! Eng $ Tickets Music: Matthew MacFarlane 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @St. Andrew’s Hall # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 10:00 12:00 16:00 20:00 18:00 12:00 50 45 43 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:30 16:30 22:30 20:30 12:00 60 54 51 THE SNOW GOOSE KBT Productions ~ 10+ M A story of love and courage. “an immense achievement .... TIT FOR TAT this play is a must-see .... it will shift your parameters as to Irritation Arts production in assosiation with Blank how good theatre in this country can actually be”. “This Page entertainment ~ 13+ LV is better than anything Cairns and Bennett have done Four military soldier trapped in the DRC. The circumstance before”. “Don’t miss it”. Adapted from Paul Gallico’s classic makes them know each other’s heartache... While they novella. want revenge on the people who hurt them in the past, it is Director: Jenine Collocott Adapted by: Nic Warren revealed that they are each other’s past... Will love conquer Featuring: James Cairns, Taryn Bennett all, or will a gun or a bible solve the situation? Writer / Director: Sibusiso Khwinana @Glennie Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets Choreography: Israel Bereta Featuring: James Sithole, 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Sol Matimba, Mahlatsi Ngoepe, Thulani Masango 09:30 09:30 09:30 09:30 09:30 09:30 09:30 09:30 09:30 09:30 85 72 @Dicks # 1h20 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B THE WOMAN WITH A BABY ON HER BACK 10:00 14:00 40 36 34 Pieter van Zyl ~ 13+ M 19:30 A story about a train driver whose life is changed irreversibly when a woman with a baby jumps in front of his train. Pieter van Zyl has adapted the short story with great TO STAND SOMEWHERE: CONFESSIONS taste and tact, preserving Fugard’s riveting psychological OF A WHITE BOY IN THE NEW SOUTH thriller and making it available as a theatre piece. AFRICA Director: Thomas Leabhart Adapted from: To whom it Storylines ~ PG L, NFC Must Concern by Athol Fugard Featuring: Pieter van Zyl A show about how one man brought down apartheid and @St. Andrew’s Studio 1 # 1h05 ! Eng $ Tickets the forces of evil, freed Mandela, sucked nigger balls and learnt to live with white guilt. A funny, thought-provoking 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B journey to find an answer to what makes us South African, 16:00 14:00 22:00 18:00 50 45 43 what makes us African, what makes us human? Director: Moses D. Rasekele THE YEAR OF THE BICYCLE Writer / Performer: Ter Hollmann Joanna Evans ~ 10+ M @B2 Arena # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets The Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award winning 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B prouction, sold out in Germany, Cape Town and Durban. A searing story of memory, growing up, 20:30 22:30 12:00 16:00 50 45 43 and reaching for friendship across great distances. Skipping from the lightness of play to the dark borders TOBACCO, AND THE HARMFUL EFFECTS of loneliness, this is “a piece of theatre that will leave you breathless” (Cue). Writer / Director: Joanna THEREOF Evans Music: John Wizards Fortune Cookie Theatre Company ~ 16+ M Featuring: Aphiwe Livi, Amy Louise Wilson The critically acclaimed, sold out hit of the 2014 National Arts Festival. Ivan is told by his wife to lecture @PJ’s # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets on the harmful effects of tobacco. Buckland’s unrivalled 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B performance combined with Sylvaine Strike’s masterful 14:00 direction “is an experience that, like grief, never leaves over 10:00 20:30 16:00 20:00 22:00 65 59 55 time, it merely winds its way into our soul.” CUE Director: Sylvaine Strike Writer: William Harding, in collaboration with Anton Chekhov, Franz Kafka, Andre Breton, and many others THE ZOO STORY Featuring: Andrew Buckland, Toni Morkel Felixton College ~ 13+ A battle for supremacy takes place over a simple bench. @St. Andrew’s Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets Watch as physical representations of man’s ego and 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B lacklustre communication attempt to find a connection in 20:00 14:30 18:30 16:30 22:30 20:30 14:30 18:30 16:30 70 60 a lonely world, but ultimately end up in even more solitude. Director: Reneira Naidoo Writer: Edward Albee Featuring: Luke Kleynhans, Ali Taqvi, Nicho Mathe, TRAVELS AROUND MY ROOM P Nicholas Wilcox Fortune Cookie Theatre Company ~ 16+ M Nowhere have people found more ways to be worried in @B2 Arena # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets a small, confined space than in their bedroom. And yet I 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B have undertaken a forty-two day journey around my room… 10:00 14:00 16:00 20:00 40 Directed by Sylvaine Strike and adapted from Xavier de Maistre’s “Voyages Around My Room” and Bill Bryson’s “At Home”. Director: Sylvaine Strike Adapted by: William Harding Featuring: William Harding

@St. Andrew’s Studio 2 # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:00 20:00 14:00 22:00 12:00 18:00 12:00 16:00 10:00 50 43 196

UBOMI P Art Based Culture ~ 13+ LV An intriguing debate based on true life stories of the city of gold ‘street dwellers’. Portraying the reality of life, uncontrollable circumstances and interrogating un- thoughtful judgement, this play takes you on a journey of introspection, allowing you to question systems, procedures and resources. Portrayed through physical theatre, drama, comedy, poetry and dance. Director: Mlamli Maloyi Writer: Pfarelo Mutheiwana Featuring: Pfarelo Mutheiwana, Mlamli Maloyi, Andile Mguda

@Dicks # 1h ! Eng, Xho, Zul $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 12:30 22:30 17:00 16:30 60 54 51

UMENDO P WSU Drama Society in Association with Podrac ~ PG V, NFC Umendo is presented and performed by students showing and unpacking the ups and downs of the marriage, in a comedic way, between two families Director: Abongile Mfundisi Writer: Abongile Mfundisi and Thulani Kenye Music: Odwa Nokhwali Featuring: Thulani Kenye, Andisiwe Diko

@City Hall # 1h ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:30 22:30 18:30 50 45

UMONGIKAZI / THE NURSE Goiwil Productions ~ 13+ LM When Nyamezo starts experiencing discrimination within the health sector and non-representation of black nurses in the then South African Nursing Association, her only option is to establish a union of black nurses. This play interrogates the treatment received by black patients and nurses in the hospitals. Director: Goitsemang Pholo Writer: Maishe Maponya Featuring: Styx Mokejane, Nomaxabiso Nyamatana

@NG Kerk Hall # 1h30 ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:00 12:30 22:30 80 72 68

UNDERMINED KBT Productions & Here Manje ~ ALL “Rethink your...... plans. There’s a show that deserves attention... takes physical theatre to new heights of creativity…spellbinding”. The 2014 Standard Bank Ovation Award winner and Fringe World 2015 nominee for Best in Theatre tells the story of Madlebe, a story of hope, perseverance and friendship that captures the hearts of audiences. Director: Tara Notcutt Writer: Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi & Luke Brown Featuring: Luke Brown, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, Stefan Erasmus

@Princess Alice Hall # 1h10 ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 11:30 70 63 60

UNDONE Artscape ~ 16+ LN A bewitching and sensual story of a boy and his dysfunctional family, in which Pretorius portrays numerous roles. Both poetry and comedy abound in this physical performance interlaced with sensuality, religion and literary references that make the play highly entertaining and accessible. Writer / Director: Wessel Pretorius Original text translation: Hennie van Greunen Featuring: Wessel Pretorius

@Gymnasium # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:15 14:15 14:15 16:15 16:15 16:15 16:15 16:15 16:15 16:15 18:30 18:30 18:30 60 54 51 197

VASLAV KBT Productions ~ 13+ LM “People thought I was mad, I just thought I was fully alive” - Vaslav Nijinksy. Nominated for 3 Fleur du Cap awards, Godfrey Johnson takes cabaret to new heights with an enthralling portrayal of the life, dance, music and madness of the creative genius that was Nijinsky. Director: Lara Bye Writer: Karen Jeynes Choreography: Fiona du Plooy Music: Arranged and composed by Godfrey Johnson with additional song lyrics and text by Lara Bye & Godfrey Johnson Featuring: Godfrey Johnson

@Albany Cabaret Club # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 17:00 21:30 10:00 14:00 18:30 21:00 10:00 14:00 18:30 21:00 65 59 55 VAT EN SIT Kim Maruping in assoc with Maruping Agency ~ PG V NFC With a dead body, an insane woman and a doll, what transpired in that squatter camp shack in Galeshewe, Kimberley is unknown! Who is responsible for this mess? And can this rape victim, an abused child burdened with life’s craziness, be saved from this co-habitation before it kills her? Director: Thabo Motlhabi Featuring: Kim Maruping

@St. Andrew’s Studio 1 # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 12:00 20:00 21:30 10:00 50 45 43

VEIL Zwai Mgijima ~ 10+ NFC Ali, a Somali refuge comes to South Africa searching for a heart. Upon his arrival he opens up a spaza shop and meets a Xhosa girl, Nosipho who helps in the shop. Eventually love blossoms yet the land they walk-on is laced with ants. Winner of numerous awards Writer . Director: Zwai Mgijima Music: Ludwe Mgolombane and Vuyo Mfokazi Featuring: Anele Penny, Zinathi Ngcwangu

@Masonic Back # 1h ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 18:00 16:00 20:00 45 41 38

WHAT THE WATER GAVE ME P UJ Arts & Culture ~ PG NFC This powerful piece of authentically South African theatre traces the stories of four characters, with a storyteller who weaves their worlds together. Through the resources of imagination, the characters are able to transfigure their existing realities. Awarded a Silver Standard Bank Ovation Award at the 2014 Festival, this production has been called “as beautiful as it is compelling” and “a performance worth seeing.” Director: Jade Bowers Writer: Rehane Abrahams Featuring: Cheraé Halley

@St. Andrew’s Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:30 18:30 22:30 16:30 14:30 65 59 55

WOZA ALBERT! The Hexagon Theatre ~ 13+ L This classic of South African theatre asks what would happen if Christ (Morena) came back to 1980’s apartheid South Africa. The style of storytelling has inspired and influenced theatre companies around the world, and it remains one of the most vibrant examples of satirical anti-apartheid South African theatre. It demonstrates innovation and creativity during a seminal period of theatre in this country. Director: Peter Mitchell Writer: Barney Simon, Mbongeni Ngema, Percy Mtwa Featuring: TQ Zondi, Mpilo Nzimande

@Masonic Back # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 16:00 12:00 16:00 22:00 10:00 50 45 43 198

7 DEADLY SINS P Macbob Productions ~ 10+ L, NFC Don’t bite the apple! This crazy kaleidoscope of side- splitting scenarios probes the why’s and wherefore’s of Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride. Chaos rules, as SA’s funniest entertainment duo burn up the stage. Their wicked comedy showcase has audiences clutching their abs and hanging onto their seats. Director: Steven Stead Writer: Susan Monteregge Choreography: Janine Bennewith Featuring: Aaron McIlroy, Lisa Bobbert

@Scout Hall # 1h30 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:30 18:00 22:00 12:00 14:00 90

B!*CH STOLE MY DOEK Copy Dog ~ 13+ LM A raucous satire about warring neighbours - with unexpected results! “One-woman comedy riot... One of 2014’s top shows!” (Estelle Sinkins, The Witness). “Has you laughing from start to finish!” (Latoya Newman, The Daily News). “A crowd-pleasing winner, well worth seeing!” (Billy Suter, The Mercury). “A triumph!” (Caroline Smart, ArtSmart). Writer / Director: Clinton Marius Featuring: Shona Johnson

@Scout Hall # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:30 12:00 14:00 10:00 20:30 21:00 10:00 75 68 64

BAR NONE Follow Spot Productions ~ PG NFC Was she real? Or was it just the way he saw her? Lucy Tops, Fleur du Cap nominee (best actress in a musical), is enchanting in this vintage musical. A family business, a charming romance and a sprinkle of make-believe punctuated with flawless renditions of hit songs from the 1940s-1980s. Director: Ashley Searle Writer: Vanessa Harris & Ashley Searle Featuring: Grant Jacobs & Lucy and Alex Tops

@Kingswood Theatre # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 80 72

BESPOKE Stuart Taylor ~ 16+ L Exercise your abs with some ‘Taylor-Made’ comedy. Comedian Stuart Taylor is back with his new 1-man show. Stuart is famed for shows such as Techni-Coloured; Money’s Too Tight to Mention and Learner Husband. BeSpoke is back-to-basics comedy inspired by his comedy club roots. It’s a no-holds- barred, uninhibited comedy experience. Featuring: Stuart Taylor

@Bowling Club # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:00 14:30 16:30 18:30 14:30 10:00 19:00 12:30 19:00 70 63 @The Recreation Centre 21:00 70 63

BIG BOYS II Follow Spot Productions ~ 10+ NFC The big boys we all love are back again. Ash and Brad! Dancing, comedy madness for everyone, that words cannot describe. After 5 years of complete sell out shows, we highly recommend pre-booking! 2015 will be the final run of Big Boys II, so it’s now or never! Director: Vanessa Harris Featuring: Ash & Brad Searle Choreography: Vanessa Harris & Ash Searle

@Kingswood Theatre # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 16:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 80 72 199

BIG GIRLS Follow Spot Productions ~ 10+ NFC Vanessa Harris – “Love At First Fight” & “Exposed”, Lucy Tops – “Absolucy” and Genna Galloway bring down the house is this crazy cabaret comedy. Three totally over the top chicks holding it together when all else fails. Hilarious and brilliant vocal acts seamlessly strung together with absurdly appropriate narrative. More FollowSpot Fun. Writer / Director: Ash Searle Choreography: Vanessa Harris Featuring: Vanessa Harris, Lucy Tops & Genna Galloway

@Kingswood Theatre # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 80 72

BLACK, WHITE & COLOURED For The Love... ~ ADULTS LVSRPM This is the only truly racially balanced comedy show in the world. After years of stand up, the trio of Stuart, Nqoba, and Al have come together to debunk and demystify racial correctness. The one chance any person of any race has to laugh and learn from another culture. Director: Nqoba Ngcobo Writer/ Performers: : Al Prodgers, Nqoba Ngcobo, Stuart Taylor

@Scout Hall # 1h30 ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 20:00 12:00 14:00 20:00 100 85 22:30

BODY LANGUAGE II : The Mating Game Gaëtan Schmid ~ 13+ M After his sold out show ‘Body Language’, Gaëtan Schmid is back with more fascinating revelations in this high octane physical comedy. A journey spanning 400?000 years of human evolution, exploring our (sometimes very confusing) mating rituals and hidden non-verbal messaging. A must see for the sake of the survival of our species! Director: Lara Bye Writer / Performer: Gaëtan Schmid

@The Highlander # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 20:00 18:00 14:00 12:00 22:00 14:00 12:00 16:00 20:00 65 59 55

BON SOIR P Follow Spot Productions ~ PG NFC A montage of brand new FollowSpot entertainment for everyone to enjoy. Comedy, dance, singing, acrobatics and other shenanigans. All the FollowSpotians hit the stage for some evening razzmatazz to wow the crowds. Expect an hour of high energy excitement and mind blowing booty shaking. Director: Vanessa Harris Choreography: Ash Searle & Vanessa Harris Featuring: Ash & Brad Searle & the FollowSpot company

@Kingswood Theatre # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00 90 81

BORDERLINE P Follow Spot Productions ~ PG NFC Being enlisted in any army is tough, for Pierre it was more. After exceptional performances as Pumba (Lion King), Mr Cellophane (Chicago) and Eddie (Rocky Horror Show), this larger-than-life plaas boy takes you through the highs, lows, horror and humour of being a South African army conscript in the seventies. Director: Vanessa Harris & Ash Searle Featuring: Pierre Van Heerden

@Kingswood Theatre # 55m ! Eng, Afr $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 20:00 20:00 20:00 20:00 20:00 20:00 20:00 20:00 20:00 20:00 80 72 200

BUTLERS AND BABYSITTERS P Slick ‘n Sleeve ~ PG V While babysitting at an eccentric family’s mansion, a young student realises that something sinister is afoot. As thunderclouds roll in and people start dying around her, she starts to question her own sanity… It’s the Adams Family meets Cluedo in a murder-mystery comedy where the audience kills off characters throughout the show! Writer / Director: Justin Wilkinson Featuring: Allana Aldridge, Justin Wilkinson

@The Highlander # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 22:00 20:00 10:00 20:00 16:00 14:00 18:00 12:00 18:00 60 54 51

CAPE TOWN COMEDY CLUB PRESENTS ~ 16+ P Cape Town Comedy Club, previously known as Jou Ma Se Comedy Club, is once again bringing late night comedy to the Bowling Club! Each night, they will showcase some of the country’s most seasoned comedians, alongside the freshest and funniest up-and-coming acts. Visit their website for the line-up: www.capetowncomedy.com Director: Kurt Schoonraad

@Bowling Club # 1h15 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 23:00 23:00 23:00 23:00 23:00 23:00 23:00 23:00 23:00 23:00 80 72 68

DEAR BREEDER Amehlo Productions ~ 13+ M ‘..nothing short of genius.’ The Witness. ‘Clever, quirky, hilariously funny.’ artSmart. A multiple award-winning musical comedy that is as absurd as the art of parenting itself. Four uniquely insane, instantly recognisable South African mothers encounter Darth Vader, the underwear fairy and a staple-gun wielding baby Jesus. (2014 Standard Bank Ovation Award, Best New SA Script and Best Comedic Performance, Durban Theatre Awards). Director: Iain ‘Ewok’ Robinson Writer: Karen Logan and Kasia Vosloo Featuring: Karen Logan and Kasia Vosloo

@St. Andrew’s Studio 2 # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 20:00 12:00 18:00 12:00 22:00 10:00 65 59 55

DEEP FRIED MAN KILLS Whacked Management ~ 16+ LM Danger! Gevaar! Ingozi! Multiple award-winning musical comedian Deep Fried Man returns with a brand new one- man show. Like all things Deep Fried, his material is tasty, but comes with health risks. Be warned that he may leave you in stitches, struggling to breathe or even losing control of your bladder. Writer / Director: Daniel Friedman Featuring: Deep Fried Man

@Scout Hall # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 10:00 14:00 22:30 16:30 19:00 18:00 20:30 18:30 18:00 60 54 50

DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN Plewman under license from Theater Mogul ~ 13+ M Tim Plewman once again dons the Caveman’s skins and steps onto stage to add to the longest-running and most successful solo comedy in SA theatre history. By Rob Becker and described as the perfect date comedy, “Caveman” is so much more than a laugh a minute show, it’s a philosophy rapped in a tour de force performance. Director: Rex Garner Writer: Rob Becker Featuring: Tim Plewman

@Victoria Theatre # 2h20m ! Eng $ Tickets inc interval 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:00 18:00 16:00 95 86 201 202

DON’T BURN YOUR SAUSAGE! P Chris Forrest ~ 16+ LM A lot of people say food is like sex, some use food to get sex, and others even use sex to get food. This is a “whisk-que”, hilarious new show starring a celebrity chef and a comedian who combine their talents to bring you something deliciously, scrumptiously naughty. Director: Bevan Cullinan Written by & featuring: Chris Forrest, Pete Goffe-Wood

@Thomas Pringle # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:30 16:30 10:00 10:00 10:00 70 63 60

DR STEF’S SIDESPLITTING HYPNOSIS P Stef ~ ADULTS Extreme, fast-paced and suitable for all ages! Informative, wacky, yet bizzare. An amazing journey into the world of the subconscious. Crazy reactions from Volunteers who Dr Stef helps on stage. Regularly sold out. The funniest show you will ever see! Rated “One of the worlds best”. Come see why! www.DrStef.co.za Director / Performer : Stef Juncker Music: Ced vd Schrick

@Glennie Hall # 1h15 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 79 71

DR STEF’S SIDESPLITTING HYPNOSIS ~ ALL AGES @Victoria Theatre F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 18:00 12:00 14:00 13:00 79 71 @St. Andrew’s Hall F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 18:30 12:30 79 71

I CAME, I TAUGHT, I LEFT Dalin Oliver ~ 13+ L Teacher by day, comedian by night! Try explaining that at a parent teacher meeting. Rather than trying, Dalin Oliver ditched the chalk board and assemblies for a microphone and the stage. This is comedy about following the path less travelled and discovering that the real learning starts when school ends. Warning, late comers will be spanked!!! Director: Stuart Taylor Writer / Performer: Dalin Oliver

@Bowling Club # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:30 12:30 21:00 12:00 16:30 18:30 10:00 16:30 17:00 60 50 50

JITTERY CITIZENS IMPROVISED COMEDY Jittery Citizens ~ PG The Jittery Citizens are SA’s Premiere Improv Comedy Troupe. A fearless group of comedic and musical geniuses, featuring the talents of James Cairns, Mpho Osei-Tutu, Frances Slabolepszy, Nic ‘Pule’ Welch, Toni Morkel, Claudine Ullman, Tony Bentel, and a host of celebrity guests! “Uproarious fun” –The Citizen “A Guaranteed Laugh” - Cue Director: Claudine Ullman Music: Tony Bentel Featuring: James Cairns, Frances Slabolepzy, Mpho Osei-Tutu, Toni Morkel, Bruce Little, Nic ‘Pule’ Welch, Jai Prakash, Lisa Overy, Claudine Ullman, Rachael Neary, Alex Radnitz with celebrity guests

@The Highlander # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 16:00 18:00 20:00 12:00 10:00 22:00 65 59 55 203

JOKES ON YOU ExploSIV Productions ~ 13+ L Sne Dladla, a 2014 silver ovation winner and Fleur Du Cup Nominee with a ”comedic stage presence that is simply irresistible” uses comedy, energy and music in this production gauranteed to leave you humoured and understanding the weird and wonderful common thread which ties people together. “His is an unforgettable performance both physically and vocally” - Daily Maverick. Director: Rob Van Vuuren Writer / Performer: Sne Dladla

@Princess Alice Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 21:00 70 63 60

LORD OF THE FLINGS Andrew Simpson Productions ~ PG LP With over 1000 tickets sold last year the smash-hit political spoof of “Lord of the Rings”, “Harry Potter”, “Star Wars” and “Twilight” is back in a hilarious updated version for the last time in Grahamstown. “A Work of Pure Genius” – Purelylocal. Free Adventure Pack included with ticket! A Must-see! Writer / Performer: Andrew Simpson

@Dicks # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 20:00 14:00 17:30 13:30 16:00 12:30 10:00 80

LOVE & PROZAC Sonia Esgueira and John Trengove ~ 16+ LS The SMASH-HIT dirty comedy on the horrors of dating in your thirties is back! 1 Actress 13 Sidesplitting characters, this comedy sketch show is jam packed with recognizable South Africans and razor sharp wit! ‘Astounding, Hilarious... A must-see!” The Star. “Skreeusnaaks!” Die Burger. Director: John Trengove Writer: Sonia Esgueira and John Trengove Featuring: Sonia Esgueira

@Kingswood Theatre # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 80 72

LOYISO GOLA LIVE – STATE OF THE NATION P Blu Blood ~ PG L Loyiso Gola is giving his State of the Nation address at the Victoria Theatre in a performance - almost certainly without notes and without needing to adjust his spectacles - he will be examining the current affairs of the last six months without pulling any punches. Director: Mpho Vizo Mogashoa Writer: Loyiso Gola

@Victoria Theatre # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:00 21:30 21:30 21:00 80 72

MR PONDO P Eco Signs ~ 18+ L An experience to shout home about awaits you at this one- man show. Mr Pondo will take you on a magical journey of laughter and satire as he sweeps across racial and political undertones. If you are hungry for a real good laugh, this show is for you... Director: J.Pondo

@Scout Hall # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 17:00 14:00 18:30 12:00 22:30 10:00 50 45 43 204 205 206 207

NAKED KNITTING AND OTHER CONTRADICTORY ACTS Liquid Fusion ~ 13+ LP Funny, clever, silly, and a little bit naughty. This is a revue style comedy show performed by a hot comic duo. Based on observations of South African life, the different sketches, routines, and parody music numbers range from ridiculous to laugh-out-loud hilarious. Naked Knitting is fresh pure entertainment. Director: Greg Homann Featuring: Mark Tatham, Daniel Geddes

@Masonic Front # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 12:00 14:00 20:00 16:00 20:00 45 41

NAT(URALLY) CAF(FEINATED) P Nat(urally) Caf(feinated) Improv Comedy Troupe ~ 10+ M In the vein of “Who’s Line Is It Anyway?”, Grahamstown’s only improvised comedy troupe is back to entertain you with their first solo show! Making it up as we go along, watch as we turn your most ridiculous suggestions into comedy gold. We’re Nat(urally) Caf(feinated): SHARE THE BUZZ! Directed by our moral compass! Featuring: Brad Lang, Douglas Smith, Tyson Ngubeni, Kate Pinchuck, Tumi Motsisi, Tiisetso Mashifane, James Sulter @St. Andrew’s Studio 1 # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 18:00 16:00 20:00 14:00 18:00 22:00 45 41 38

NO CONTEST?! ScruffySession Productions ~ PG LM No Contest?! sees two aspiring dancers compete on a reality Tv show to raise funds to build a rehabilitation centre in their home town, Chatsworth. Along the way, we meet 20 quirky and interesting characters, all voicing their opinions as to what talent they think SA should have. Writer / Director: Verne Rowin Munsamy Featuring: Verne Rowin Munsamy, Sashin Kandhai

@St. Andrew’s Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 16:00 12:30 14:30 16:30 65 59 51 18:30

OOM SCHALK, FROM THE HEART 2 Merry Scholar ~ ALL Critics & audience have raved. Beverley Brommert gave it 4 stars; others said, “a perfect craftsman;” “Baie beter as Patrick Mynhardt”; “David Muller truly inhabits this character…not a second when we were not transported into the reality he created.” This show is for you so don’t tell anyone about it. Director: Celia Musikanth Featuring: David Muller Writer: Herman Charles Bosman

@Atherstone Hall # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 12:00 14:00 16:00 19:00 12:00 19:30 10:00 22:00 10:00 60 54 51

PANTS ON FIRE 4 P Martin Evans and Rob Van Vuuren ~ 13+ LM What happens when Rob Van Vuuren and Martin Evans bring their unscripted, unrehearsed Standard Bank Ovation Award winning show to the fest? Magic happens! Join them for a different line-up of comedy and music at every performance. Bookings are essential!! Don’t miss out on the most popular show at the fest. Featuring: Rob Van Vuuren and Martin Evans

@Rhodes Music Club # 1h30 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 75 68 208 209 210

PLEBS P Derick Watts & The Sunday Blues ~ 16+ L After nearly 20 million views on YouTube, Derick Watts & The Sunday Blues venture out into the real world for the first time. Will they find fame, fortune & petrol money to get back home, or learn a valuable lesson about friendship instead? How hard can it be, right? Written & performed by: Nic Smal & Gareth Allison

@Albany Cabaret Club # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 22:00 12:00 14:30 19:00 60 54 51

RAIDERS: THE MUSICAL P Theatre For Africa ~ ALL After 25 years of theatrical fun from Ellenbogen, it was inevitable that a musical Raiders would have to come along. This high energy story of romance and song is set in apartheid South Africa, back in the sixties, when rock and roll was king. Writer / Director: Nicholas Ellenbogen Featuring: Nicholas Ellenbogen, David Viviers Nathan Lynn, Cameron Robertson

@St. Andrew’s Hall # 1h30 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 120 108 102

SAME STREEP DIFFERENT DAY P The Brothers Streep ~ ALL ‘The Brothers’ return with a brand new show packed with fresh songs and old favourites. Critics have called their musical comedy “engagingly funny… a stripe of musical sunshine” (The Herald) and “a whole lot of laughs!” (Cue). But don’t take their word for it, come see for yourself! Featuring: Dylan Hichens and Simon van Wyk

@Bowling Club # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 18:30 14:30 19:00 10:00 16:30 60 54 51

SIX INCHES Lucky Packet Productions ~ 16+ LSM Back for a return season, the smash hit Six Inches takes you on a hilarious trip with three unlikely friends – and one hard topic. Fears, fantasies and fetishes feature in this fun romp behind the scenes at a less than ordinary girls night. Come be a fly on the wall! Director: Kristy Stride Writer: Kristy Stride and Diaan Lawrenson Featuring: Bongile Lecoge-Zulu, Jessica Roberts and Dikelo Mamiala

@St. Andrew’s Studio 1 # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 22:00 14:00 16:00 20:00 12:00 18:00 10:00 19:30 55 50 47

SLEIGHT OF MOUTH 1 : THE ART OF TALKING YOUR WAY OUT OF ANYTHING Marcel Oudejans ~ 16+ L Described as “full of deceptions, belly laughter and lots of surprised gasps” (Cape Times), comedy magician Marcel Oudejans stars in an intimate performance of visual sleight- of-hand magic, mental illusion, modern-day humour and witty commentary. You’ll be charmed, amazed and thoroughly entertained by this talented and experienced performer! Writer / Performer: Marcel Oudejans

@St. Andrew’s Studio 2 # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:00 18:00 12:00 22:00 16:00 18:00 14:00 75 68 64 211 212 213 214

STAND UP 4 COMEDY P STRANGELY NORMAL / Stand Up 4 Comedy ~ 16+ L NORMALLY STRANGE P Four young South African comedians from 4 different Slick ‘n Sleeve ~ 13+ M backgrounds, providing 4 times the fun for 4 times the Ever experienced heavy mood swings or wondered how laughs. Fresh and funny. the order of your socks could correlate with the death of Director: Virgil Prins your uncle? Join Luella and Allana for a comedy about Featuring: Gavin Kelly, Virgil Prins, Mo Mothebe, the ups and downs of living with bi-polar and OCD. Ebenhaezer Dibakwane Emotionally action-packed and guaranteed to make you laugh… and cry… at the same time! Written by & featuring: Luella Holland & Allana Aldridge @Bowling Club # 1h15 ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets @The Highlander # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 12:00 14:30 16:30 10:00 12:00 50 45 43 21:00 10:00 18:00 12:00 22:00 20:00 50 45 43

STILL FUNNIER THAN THEM P STRANGER THINGS Warren Robertson, Chris Forrest & Deep Fried Man ZikkaZimba Productions ~ PG NFC ~ 16+ L “Pure fun, a physical theatre and miming delight.” (Artslink The combination of Chris Forrest’s dry one-liners, Deep 2014) A one-man show that revolves around a restaurateur, Fried Man’s musical parodies and Warren Robertson’s who is struggling to contend with the pandemonium of his dark hilarity led to rave reviews and sold-out shows in restaurant. A pedantic German chef, a half-deaf barman, 2014. Now they are back with all-new material and a top and a drunken waiter are some of the peculiar characters SA comedian guest each night to prove that they’re Still that will unravel in this one-hander! “In this quirky comedy Funnier Than Them. Dittmann effortlessly & seamlessly transforms from Written by & featuring: Warren Robertson, Chris Forres & character to character…” (Cue 2014). Deep Fried Man Director: Jaques de Silva Writer: Ryan Dittmann & Jaques de Silva Featuring: Ryan Dittmann @Bowling Club # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @The Highlander # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 16:30 10:00 18:30 14:30 21:00 16:30 12:00 14:30 21:00 65 59 55 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 10:00 22:00 14:00 16:00 20:00 18:00 22:00 60 54 51 215

TALK TO THE HAND P Dream Arts Productions ~ PG LM When an American, a Russian, and a French spy struggle with friendship, love, self-preservation, and a secret, three becomes a crowd. And somebody must ‘take out’ the garbage. A witty and appetizing entrée served with threats, more threats, and a fine Bordeaux. Director: Jake Chika Writer: Brenda Lovino

@Dicks # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:00 17:00 18:30 12:00 50 45 43

THE BOX COMEDY P POPArt production and Goliath&Goliath ~ 16+ LM POPArt productions and Goliath&Goliath present “THE BOX COMEDY”- a variety of comedy shows performed by the hottest comedy names in SA. From club line ups, to improv and one-man shows, expect just about anything to tickle your funny bone down at THE BOX. New line-ups daily. ***”The Box Comedy” is also a club gig that has run at Jo’burg’s POPArt Theatre for the past 3 years. Featuring: Jason Goliath, Donovan Goliath, Nicholas Goliath, Richelieu Beanouir, LoyMad, Tracey Lee Oliver, Nina Hastie & more

@Bowling Club # 1h30 ! Eng, SA languages $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 10:00 12:00 20:30 12:00 18:30 20:30 14:00 18:30 50 45 @The Recreation Centre 19:00

THE FULL MORTY Chrysallis ~ ADULTS LSM Discover the unchartered territory that fascinates us all… the mind of the South African male! From testosterone to toilet time - this one-man adventure will reveal all… literally and figuratively! Join one of SA’s favourite TV & theatre personalities, Mortimer Williams, and do the Full Morty! Director: Kristy Suttner Writer: Kristy Suttner and Mortimer Williams Featuring: Mortimer Williams

@Bowling Club # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 20:30 18:30 16:30 14:00 20:30 10:00 12:00 21:00 14:30 65 59 55 @The Recreation Centre 20:30

THE GREAT EXPLORER P Warren Robertson ~ ALL Consumed by wanderlust, comedian Warren Robertson delves into the past in an attempt to answer the question, “Why must we travel”? From Ibn Battuta to Magellan he unearths little known stories that add colour and character to history’s great explorers leaving you both laughing, and yearning to see the world. Director: Chris Forrest Writer: Warren Robertson

@Scout Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 20:30 18:00 14:30 20:30 12:30 22:30 10:00 20:30 14:00 60 55 55

THE LOVE DOCTOR Andrew Simpson Productions ~ 16+ LSM Love - what the hell is it all about? Join comedian Andrew Simpson as he guides us on a journey through love, dating, relationships and sex! So whether you’re single, dating, complicated or have been married for thousands of years this is the show for you! Don’t miss it! Director: Kim MacQuilkan Writer: Andrew Simpson Featuring: Andrew Simpson

@St. Andrew’s Studio 1 # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:00 12:00 22:00 16:00 22:00 15:30 12:00 80 216 217 218 219 220 221

THE MONOTONOUS P Theatre Of Human Purpose ~ ALL A story of a master and a servant who are running against time. Journeying to meet William’s high school friends in a reunion, both William and Julius try to leave the house, but too many obstacles arise and it becomes impossible to leave. Director: Nhlakanipho Gamede Writer: Bonginkosi Thwala Featuring: Bonginkosi Thwala, Nzuzo Ngcobo

@Masonic Front # 45m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 16:00 22:00 20:00 14:00 30 27

THE PLOT HOLE P Cairns/ Cockrell Production ~ 13+ L Cape Town based comedy duo Stuart Cairns and Westley Cockrell bring to life the trials and tribulations they have faced while pursuing careers in stand-up comedy. From keeping a day job to chasing the impossible dream of impressing their parents, these two oddballs will have you laughing at their expense. Director: Stuart Cairns Writers: Stuart Cairns & Westley Cockrell Featuring: Westley Cockrell and Stuart Cairns

@St. Andrew’s Studio 2 # 55m ! Eng, Afr $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 18:00 16:00 20:00 60 54 51

THE RANGA Macbob Productions ~ ALL This whacky comedy looks at prejudice seen through the eyes of a man tormented with pigmentation issues… ‘Rangas’ are red heads. Here SA’s leading funny man takes his scalpel to the preconceived ideas about ‘ranga-ism’ - highlighting how this recessive gene is the primary cause of most the world’s woes! Director: Steven Stead Featuring: Aaron McIlroy, Andy Turrell

@Scout Hall # 1h20 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:00 12:00 16:00 18:30 22:30 90

TO KILL A KOEKSISTER Andrew Simpson Productions ~ PG A murder has taken place. Anyone could be the murderer or the next victim including YOU! And the show’s ending changes every night! Whodunit? Comedian Andrew Simpson hosts this hilarious update of the sold out show for the last time in Grahamstown! Ticket includes a free detective kit! “Brilliant” - Cue. Writer: Andrew Simpson Featuring: Andrew Simpson

@St. Andrew’s Studio 2 # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 22:00 16:00 18:00 14:00 20:00 22:00 80 68

VIOLET ONLINE Three Cats Productions ~ 18+ LM Violet Online is a hilarious, sexy comedy about love, life and starting over. Recently divorced forty-something Violet explores the titillating world of online dating, cyber sex, Scrabble sex, dieting, Brazilian waxing, and spelling! Starring Lynita Crofford and directed by Megan Furniss, Violet Online received rave reviews in Cape Town. Adapted from: The blog Violet Online Director: Megan Furniss Featuring: Lynita Crofford

@Dicks # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:00 20:00 15:30 17:30 18:00 12:00 21:00 70 63 222 223 224 225

WAR DONKEY - THE POLONY DIARIES P Martin Evans ~ 13+ NFC Martin Evans is that ‘Other guy’ from Pants on Fire. I’ve only 50 words to convince you to book for my brand new show, War Donkey - The Polony Diaries. Would the following help: Hilarious storytelling; Poignant; Nudity; Lies about nudity; Belly Laughs; Explosions; Lies about explosions… Twice winner of the Standard Bank Ovation Award. Directed by & featuring: Martin Evans

@Scout Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 19:00 16:00 12:00 16:30 12:00 16:00 16:30 10:00 16:00 80 72

WHATWHAT ExploSIV Productions ~ 13+ LSM The 2013 Standard Bank Ovation Award winning show for comedy returns for its final season! Join comedy legend Rob van Vuuren as he takes you on an unforgettable roller coaster ride. ‘Extraordinary...an outstanding comedian... Extremely funny...Truly inspired...Nothing short of brilliant and deserves a standing ovation.’ - The Weekend Argus. Director: Tara Notcutt Writer: Rob van Vuuren Choreography: Cleo Notcutt Music: Gary Thomas Featuring: Rob van Vuuren

@PJ’s # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 18:00 16:00 16:00 12:00 15:30 16:00 100 90 85

WHEN WE WERE NEARLY YOUNG Lebogang Mogashoa ~ 18+ L Lebogang Mogashoa has survived kinky apartheid role- play, North Korean nuclear bomb threats, mind-altering celebrity diets and speaking in tongues. When We Were Nearly Young (@WWWNYoung) is hilarious, honest, hot and hopeful. It’s been Twitter recommended by author, Lauren Beukes and The Epicene Butcher’s Jemma Khan. Bring your entire emotional palette. Featuring: Lebogang Mogashoa

@Dicks # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 19:00 12:00 22:00 16:30 10:00 50 43

WHO’S YOUR DADDY? Chris Forrest ~ 13+ LM A hilarious one-man comedy show all about comedian Chris Forrest’s journey to becoming dad. This laugh-a- minute show covers everything from “trying” to dealing with pregnancy to having a baby. A must see for all parents, expectant parents or just fans of great comedy. Director: Bevan Cullinan Writer: Chris Forrest Featuring: Chris Forrest

@Scout Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:30 17:00 22:30 20:00 10:00 18:30 12:00 14:30 22:30 12:00 65 59 55

YES REALLY, ANGEL ExploSIV Productions ~ 13+ NFC Back by popular demand! Stand up comedian, Angel Campey returns for the final run of her hit show. A look behind the curtain of being a young, white female named Angel in this wonderful and crazy land. In her dark, witty observational comedy, Angel covers everything from growing up with the name of a stripper, why Guardian Angels are useless and why we should be afraid of China and Glitter. Director: Nik Rabinowitz Featuring: Angel Campey

@Masonic Back # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:00 18:00 12:00 20:00 14:00 22:00 12:00 70 63 60 226

2-4-1 DOUBLE THE FUN FLORENCE AND WATSON AND THE Cherryco ~ ALL SUGARBUSH MOUSE P Take a puppet story with Petric, or Pet for short, that’s ExcluSIV Productions ~ ALL journeyed from the Fringe in 2003 and 2007 (“a Children’s Join Florence and Watson, the funniest, all-singing, all- Festival Must See” ) to the Main in 2008, internationally dancing, all-storytelling Honey Badgers you’ve ever met and back again. Mix with a dotty clown in Cherry’s Magic as they bring to life, the remarkable tale of a brave and Fun Show, and join in with Adi Paxton to enjoy! resourceful little mouse who discovers a unique talent that Director: Adi Paxton with Magic Advisory by Ricki Gray allows her to save the Proteas on the beautiful mountain Writer / Performer: Adi Paxton that she calls home. Written & directed by: Rob van Vuuren & Danielle Bischoff @Oatlands Hall # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets Featuring: Sne Dladla, Dean Balie 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Memory Hall # 40m ! Eng $ Tickets 12:00 14:00 16:00 14:00 16:00 55 50 47 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 16:00 16:00 12:00 10:00 18:30 14:30 12:00 14:00 60 51 FINGO FESTIVAL P ~ ALL INDALO 2015 marks the fifth year that the Fingo Festival will Keiskamma Trust Music Academy ~ ALL take place. Located in one of the oldest townships in Grahamstown, Fingo Village, the Festival prides itself on A story weaved by orchestra, storytellers and tapestries. It tells of the relationship between providing unique programmes and activities guaranteed the Xhosa’s and creation. Performers excite the audience through movement; the to give the avid Festino a rich township experience and orchestra interprets the tale with some wonderful pieces; and the beautiful hand-woven emphasise the relationship between art and community tapestries speak through design – all three interlink to create the story of the Xhosas. healing . This year, the Fingo Festival runs from 8 to 11 Director: Mojalefa Koyana Writer: Mojalefa Koya and Avumile Nyongo July, with multi-disciplinary acts planned throughout – Music conducted by: Anthony Drake catering for all – from little ones to teenagers and parents. Highly recommended. Featuring: Msindisi Mva, Asive Mali, Makhubalo Sinethemba with Xolani Magini

@Fingo Multi-purpose centre # Full day ! Eng, Xho, Afr, Zul $ Tickets @Memory Hall # 50m ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 09:00 09:00 09:00 09:00 Free 10:00 18:30 14:00 16:00 10:00 40 36 34 227 228

LAKE ZikkaZimba Productions in association with Dark Laugh Theatre Company ~ ALL Lake is family adventure where two brothers are brought together, by their need for water. Ryan Dittman and Jaques de Silva clown their way to save the day as Stick and Bucket. Daniel Buckland ensures that “Fun flows for all in this fairyntale” (Gillian McAinsh - The Herald) as he directs with skill and creative imagination, using projection, shadow puppetry and masks to send the audience hurling down this precious quest. KIDS, Lake is theatre so good that even your parents will want to see it. Director: Daniel Buckland Devised by: Daniel Buckland, Jaques de Silva and Ryan Dittmann Featuring: Jaques de Silva and Ryan Dittmann

@Memory Hall # 50m ! Non verbal $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 18:30 14:00 12:00 18:30 18:30 12:30 10:00 10:00 60 54 51

SIPHO P Chintsa East Drama ~ ALL Sipho is the laziest boy you’ll ever meet. The only time he wakes up is to eat. One day it is decided that he has to start looking after his family… but nothing is ever that simple! Join us for an adventure of goats, gold and gangs. Director: Charlotte Whitehead Written by: Tom Muller and Charlotte Whitehead

@Drostdy Lawns # 30m ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 14:00 16:00 FREE

THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY KBT Productions & Here Manje ~ ALL “Awesome ... storytelling, exceptionally performed”. Once upon a time, a boy named Tommy who lived an unadventurous life was presented by a challenge from the new kid at school - join us on an adventure of the imagination and magic. Come see Tommy’s journey to becoming a hero. Director: Tara & Brian Notcutt Writers: Tara Notcutt & Stefan Erasmus in collaboration with Luke Brown & Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi Choreography: Cleo Notcutt, Tara Notcutt & Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi Featuring: Luke Brown, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, Stef Erasmus

@Oatlands Hall # 50m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 10:00 14:00 14:00 55 47

THE WASHERWOMAN AND THE MOON Eden College Durban ~ ALL Have you ever wished you were on the Moon? Join Zama on her search for Mamma Moon. Be befuddled by the Four-headed Creature. Be in awe of Akkera the Serpent and amused by the hilarious Sun Sisters. Puppetry, song , dance and comedy. Fantastical theatre for kids by kids! Writer / Director: Jean van Elden Choreography: Shelby Strange

@Vicky’s # 45m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:00 12:00 40 36 34

WARRIOR ON WHEELS Chaeli Campaign ~ 7+ A fantastical tale of a young boy destined for great things and even greater adventures. A child chosen to remind us of the courage and joy we have forgotten within ourselves. Through the use of puppetry, physical animation and vibrant storytelling, Warrior on Wheels is set to captivate the imagination. Director: Jayne Batzofin Inspired by: Deirdre’s Amy Gower’s book “Warrior on Wheels” Featuring: Iman Isaacs , Siphumeze Khundayi, Jessica McCarthy, Richard September

@Memory Hall # 45m ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:30 14:30 18:30 12:00 14:00 50 45 43 229 230 231

A (SORTA) LOVE STORY P ROLSKA Productions ~ ALL The award-winning ROLSKA Productions presents 2015’s romantic comedy cabaret sensation: A (Sorta) Love Story. Studded with musical theatre favourites by the likes of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Stephen Sondheim, the show will have your toes tapping as it looks at love from all angles. More info: www.rolska.com Director: Drew Rienstra Featuring: Amy Trout, David Fick

@Vicky’s # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 10:00 20:00 20:30 14:00 22:30 20:30 20:30 65 59 55

CAT SINGS ELLA! Theatre for Africa ~ ALL Cat Sings Ella! is a musical theatre experience of pure pleasure to stir ‘Body and Soul’. Cat rides the exhilarating rollercoaster of Ella’s repertoire; from the early Harlem years through the Decca and Verve recordings; from the breakthrough ‘A-Tisket, A-Tasket’ to her Cole Porter and Duke Ellington Songbooks. Writer / Director: Paul Spence Featuring: Cat Simoni

@Albany Cabaret Club # 1h30 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:30 12:00 14:30 16:30 21:00 12:30 100 90 85

CHEERS TO BROADWAY! P Mixing Bowl Productions ~ ALL Five singers and one piano, this is a toe-tapping tribute to the hits of Broadway that you don’t want to miss! With hair- raising 4-part harmony, dynamic duos and show stopping solos, Cheers to Broadway! raises a glass in celebration of the Broadway classics. Director: Keenan Tyler Oliphant Featuring: Amy Campbell, Kurt Haupt, Richard White, Tammy de Klerk, Keenan Tyler Oliphant

@Beethoven Room # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 15:00 12:00 20:00 21:30 80 72 68

MR JOHNSON COOKS P KBT Productions ~ 13+ LM Masterchef meets music ! Cooking and concertos ! A musical journey through the world of food and cooking mixed and baked by the multi-award winning, Godfrey Johnson whose “uncanny ability of mixing pathos with humour and a good dollop of sauciness” is fully displayed in this well cooked cabaret. Writer / Director / Performer: Godfrey Johnson

@Albany Cabaret Club # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 14:30 17:00 19:00 12:00 10:00 15:00 18:30 12:00 14:30 60 54 51

THE OLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL Troupe Theatre Company ~ PG M A true gem of stunning songs and spoken words, combining considerable talents in a delicate and gritty reflection on the fabric that make us human and vulnerable. Gravelly, breathless and breathtaking! It is funny and subtle with self-deprecating pizzazz moments which has at its centre a great deal of soul. Director: Janna Ramos-Violante Featuring: Fiona Ramsay and Tony Bentel

@Albany Cabaret Club # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 10:00 14:30 17:30 21:00 14:30 17:00 10:00 80 72 68 232

GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK P THE WAY WE WERE! ROLSKA Productions ~ ALL ROLSKA Productions ~ ALL Award-winning ROLSKA Productions tackles repertoire Theatre for Africa that defined popular song in the 20th century. Debonair Musicals, movies, anecdotes and unforgettable songs... Roland Perold entertains from the piano, hot on the heels Cat’s astoundingly pure, true voice is just perfect for the of his sell-out ‘Memory Lane’ cabaret in 2014. Porter, timelessly beautiful Streisand standards, from The Way Berlin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, et al. come to life in this We Were to Woman in Love, featuring some of the world’s enthralling collection. More info: www.rolska.com greatest songwriters including Gershwin, Kern, Porter, Director: David Fick Featuring: Roland Perold Sondheim, Bernstein, Rogers & Hart and Lerner & Lowe.

@Vicky’s # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets Writer / Director: Paul Spence Featuring: Cat Simoni 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Albany Cabaret Club # 1h10 ! Eng $ Tickets 18:00 22:00 16:00 12:30 20:00 18:30 10:00 14:30 65 59 55 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:30 19:00 19:30 21:30 16:30 19:30 100 90 85 233

DEAR OR: MADIBANESS P Smile Music ~ ALL Madibaness injects hope that the principles Mandela embodied will continue to be practiced. The story is told through a juxtaposition of music, dance, poetry, narrative pieces and songs. The Mandela story is used to inject hope to a despondent youth. Writer / Director: Sipho Mnyakeni Featuring: Anathi Mnyakeni, Thulani Sithela

@City Hall # 1h05 ! Eng, Zul, Sot $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 14:00 18:00 20:30 40 36 34

GIVE US THIS DAY New Generation Production ~ ALL The first stage play to be banned in 1977 because of the findings of the Judicial Commission on the 1976 Soweto uprisings. The story of an angry young man whose speech at his graduation made him a marked man by the security police. This musical play takes us on a rollercoaster ride through social issues like permits and curfews in the townships. The play ends in the tragic death of Nkululeko Africa through a letter bomb. Supported by ECPACC. Writer / Director: Mzwandile Maqina Featuring: Qaqambile Qona, Namhla Best, Lubabalo Mbombela, Jackie N. Tokwe, Nkwenkwezi Mtila

@City Hall # 1h30 ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 16:00 22:30 16:00 50 45 43

ILIZWI Blue Sky Productions and Elesen Productions in association with Samkela Stamper ~ ALL A fabulous new musical by Ingrid Wylde and Vuyo Jack comes to the Festival. ILIZWI “voice” with SA Jazz greats such as “Meadowlands” and “Weekend Special” with new compositions. A love story, be true to your passions, find your voice. A celebration not to be missed! Director: Nox Donyeli Writer: Ingrid Wylde, Vuyo Jack Choreography: Ayanda Nondlwana Featuring: Sisonke Yafele, Nombasa Ngoqo, Princess Nkuna

@City Hall # 1h05 ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 19:00 21:00 16:30 12:00 20:00 40 36

IN-BETWEEN P Mixing Bowl Productions ~ 13+ LM Our lives are boxed by childhood, adolescence and adulthood, but who are we in the transition? Using contemporary musical theatre songs to unpack and explore questions posed by transition, this piece is a bare reflection of feeling suspended In-between. Director: Keenan Tyler Oliphant Featuring: Amy Campbell, Richard White, Tammy de Klerk, Keenan Tyler Oliphant

@Princess Alice Hall # 1h05 ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 65 59 55

INDE LE NDLELA Port Elizabeth Opera House ~ ALL An aging mother should be happy for a chance to own a property for the first time, an RDP house. In her mind is this gift which will be an inheritence to her son who sees himself as a man. What were all the years of liberation Book your tickets through our on-line booking struggle for? Supported by ECPACC system at www.nationalartsfestival.co.za and Director: Xabiso Zweni Writer: Monde Ngonyama use our funky new app to plan your festival Music arranged by: Bongani Tulwana Featuring Nondumiso Zweni, Aarti Narotam, Xabiso Zweni experience!

@City Hall # 1h30 ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Phone our friendly call centre for expert 10:00 14:00 16:30 50 45 assistance in making your bookings 20:30 0860 002 004 234

KADITSHWENE P TOUGH YEARS Atamelang Community Art Centre ~ ALL Reliable Knowledge Theatre Club ~ ALL The life and times of the Bahurutshe nation that forms part of the cluster communities of Tough Years talks about the community of Vryburg who Tswana descent in Kaditshwene, (renowned for its iron ore and now declared a national marched to the department of education asking for black heritage site). The story is told through traditional songs, dances and poetry taking us learners to be enrolled at Vryburg High School. It also through the bloodthirsty war with the Ndebele Warrior, Mzilikazi. depicts a story of how a black student stabbed a white Director: Tebogo Molaolwa Writer: Patric Kwantle, Lebeisa Molapo Choreography: student with a pair of scissor at a multiracial school. Boitumelo Mokwene Writer / Director: Tshidiso Sehole Music: Composed by Itumeleng Malepe, conducted by Boitumelo Mokwene Featuring: Itumeleng Malepe, Tshireletso Moreo, Jantjie Gaserengwe Mangadi @City Hall # 1h ! Eng, Tsw $ Tickets @The Recreation Centre # 45m ! Eng, Set $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 16:30 12:00 16:30 34 29 10:00 12:00 16:30 12:00 10:00 40 36 34

THE VOW P MY PEOPLE, MY CHURCH P Dikgwana Cultural Group ~ PG L Affirmative Youth Entertainment ~ ALL Fiona, a village girl from Lerome South, near Moruleng, My People, My Church is a story that reflects on the old and new South African gets into an arranged wedding with a MoSotho man parliaments and suggests a neutral and reasoning role that our indigenous Christian named Seiso. The poor girl cannot cope, as she is a churches should play. The struggle continues. modern woman with academic ambitions and less interest This production is supported by ECPACC. in cultural customs. The tale is told through music, dance Director: Ncedo India Writer: Ncedo India and drama. Choreography: Masibulele Dyakophu Writer / Director: Leon Tshenye Music: Tshepo Makinita Choreography: Paul Rakgokong @Masonic Back # 1h ! English $ Tickets Featuring: Katlego Rammusi, Dineo Katane 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @City Hall # 55m ! Eng, Set $ Tickets 14:00 16:00 12:00 20:00 40 36 22:00 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 20:00 14:30 12:00 18:30 20:30 22:00 30 27

SIMPLY BROADWAY BDG Productions ~ 10+ NFC UBIZO - THE CALL P Tsembeyi Music Productions ~ ALL After two sold-out seasons at the NAF and Joburg Theatre, the “simply brilliant!” (CUE) smash-hit returns, paying This play explores the cultural differences in South Africa. glittering homage to history’s greatest musicals. Featuring A child, adopted in a different culture, gets an ancestral music from the likes of Chicago, Into The Woods, Les calling and its difficult for the mother to understand Miserables, Rocky Horror and Wicked, “…Simply Broadway because the child has been with her from infancy. It is performed with excellence, charm and grandeur encourages openness and acceptance of each other reminding the audience of all the reasons they love the without prejudice. theatre.” (Grocotts Mail) Writer / Director: Nkoi Matshoba Writer / Director: Brett de Groot Choreography: Charmaine James & Mayleen Rudling Choreography: Zipho Nqweniso Music arranged by: Brett de Groot and Music composed by: Thandisizwe Frans Featuring: Brett de Groot, Jacques du Plessis, Kay Mosiane Featuring: Thandi Vunduk, Lazola Penxa, Qalintombi Moses, Nomawabo Phika @City Hall @Beethoven Room # 1h15 ! $ Tickets # 1h05 ! Eng, Xho $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 20:30 14:30 17:30 14:00 12:30 17:30 15:00 21:30 65 59 10:00 14:30 18:30 12:00 40 36 34

STORIES BEHIND BARS: ART BEHIND UNONTOMBI MUSICAL PLAY ~ BARS P Izodela Arts Industry ALL Department of Correctional Services ~ ALL NFC Unontombi is a love story in which friends fight over a woman. One of the friends makes use of traditional powers This is a music and dance performance show by the but it fails because his ancestors have already chosen a Department of Correctional Services offenders. It provides wife for him. the opportunity for Artists Behind Bars to express their views about art, to redefine them as part of the broader Director: Tsepo Mohlala Choreography: Tsepo Mohlala society as well as to create a platform for these artists to Writer: Dan Ndlovu Featuring: Thandeka Magagula, harness the skills developed whilst they are still in custody. Moses Mahlangu @The Recreation Centre # 1h20 ! Eng, Xho, Zul $ Tickets @City Hall # 1h30 ! SA lang $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 12:00 16:00 14:00 18:00 10:00 40 36 34 10:00 10:00 10:00 20 18

THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID TOO P YOU BET YOUR LIFE! ~ Slick ‘n Sleeve ~ 13+ L ROLSKA Productions PG M Luella Holland takes a stab at social media in this hysterical Award-winning ROLSKA Productions returns with its romp! From Facebook to Twitter, Whatsapp to Skype, her musical comedy of devilish delight. Poor Jonny… BANG! side-splitting antics will leave you in stitches as she plays Suddenly appearing in his own afterlife TV game show, all the instantly-recognisable characters we encounter scenes from his past are replayed with purgatorial relish. within our social circles. Interspersed with songs and Has Jonny been a good boy? Not from the looks of things. sketches, it’s a cheeky musical comedy ripped from YOUR More info: www.rolska.com newsfeed! Director: Drew Rienstra Writer / Performer: Luella Holland Book, Music & Lyrics by: Roland Perold & David Fick Choreography: William Jones Featuring: Amy Trout, @Albany Cabaret Club # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets David Fick, Roland Perold 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Vicky’s # 55m ! Eng $ Tickets 19:30 17:00 12:30 16:30 12:30 22:00 50 45 43 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 10:00 18:00 14:00 16:30 18:00 12:00 16:00 18:30 70 63 60 235

GOOSEBUMP A CAPELLA The Boulevard Harmonists ~ PG An established Grahamstown favourite: the Boulevard Harmonists – a mixed 6-voice A Capella ensemble, celebrating good music and excellent singing. Classical music, as well as folk and popular music – stylish, sophisticated, with flair. A highlight for your Festival, an event of pure musical delight! Director: Kobus Venter

@Rhodes Chapel # 1h ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 15:00 10:00 13:00 19:00 11:00 70 63 60

KZNYO CLASSIC BLAST KwaZulu-Natal Youth Orchestra ~ ALL Bring the family and enjoy a fun, entertaining presentation of classical and contemporary orchestral music performed by the KwaZulu-Natal Youth Orchestra. Under the baton of Maestro, Lyk Temmingh, their musical tour will transport you around the world. These vibrantly talented young musicians will get your hands clapping and feet tapping! Includes work from Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Paul Desmond, Edvard Grieg, MIkhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Henry Mancini, Jacques Offenbach, Sergei Prokofiev, Shanjeet Teeluck, Meghan Trainor arr Lyndsay Johnston, Soweto String Quartet, Igor Stravinsky. Director: Lyk Temmingh

@Transnet Great Hall # 1h ! Eng $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 14:30 14:30 40 36 34

RHODES ALUMNI RECITALS Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology ~ 10+ The Department of Music and Musicology, Rhodes University, proudly presents recitals performed by five outstanding graduates: 11:00 Theresa Dwyer (piano), 12:15 Andrew Duncan (piano), 13:30 Peter Cartwright (piano), 16:30 Paul Richard (saxophone); 18:00 Christo Greyling (piano).

@Beethoven Room # 1h ! $ Tickets All performances on 3 July F C B 11:00, 12:15, 13:30, 16:30, 18:00 50 45 43

RHODES MUSIC STAFF PERFORMANCES Rhodes University ~ 10+ NFC Programme 1 (15:00): Popular chamber trios for violin, cello and piano with Duncan Samson (violin), Kwazi Mkula (cello), Catherine Foxcroft (piano). Programme 2 (17:00): Inspirational Women: A tribute to Rebecca Clarke with Elizabeth Rennie (viola) and Catherine Foxcroft (piano). Programme 3 (19:00): A tribute to the life and music of La Divina (Maria Callas) en La Mome (Edith Piaf) with Jo-Nette LeKay (Soprano), Eugene Vermaak (Cabaret singer/ pianist), Paul Ferreira (accompanist)

@Beethoven Room # 1h ! $ Tickets All performances on 2 July F C B 15:00, 17:00, 19:00 60 54 51

SEMPRE BRIO Sihlangene Sisonke Development ~ ALL This classical music group specialising in classical music, operetta and classical and African Jazz. The classically trained singers are accompanied by a 6 piece band consisting of 2 pianists, bass guiter, lead guiter, drummer and saxophonist. Director: Sizwe Maseko Composed by: Lehlohonolo Moaise Musicians: Maleeu Mahlangu, Solomon Mlangeni, Anthony Sebei

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7090 AMANDLA FREEDOM ENSEMBLE We play music: composed, improvised or both, with or “Mlangeni’s Amandla quintet wraps elliptical melodies in without electronics. We like to invite other people to work three-part horn harmonies, rich with impasto, swinging like with us, those can be musicians, but also light and sound broken chandeliers. The Soweto native’s compositions designers, actors, poets or visual artists. So come along pull from church hymns; traditional rituals learned from and join us – direct from Amsterdam – this trio will blow his uncle, who was a sangoma or healer; American your socks off! postbop; the Ornette Coleman Quartet; and the bounding, interwoven cycles of Eastern Cape music” - Jazz Times. Featuring: Bas Wiegers (violin), Koen Kaptijn (trombone) and Nora Mulder (piano)

PAND7090 (Best of the Amsterdam Fringe) will be performing on the Arena from 2 to 6 July @The Vic # 50m ! $ Tickets at the SABC Booth in the Monument - see page 94 - a World Fringe Alliance production. 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Graham Hotel # 50m ! $ Tickets 14:00 22:00 17:00 19:00 60 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:30 17:00 23:00 50 45 ASANDA MQIKI A product of the National School of Art, Asanda presents as ACATEARS MUSIC a recognisable brand with a unique singing style. She has performed in Sweden and Maputo and shared stages with Acatears music has influences of Afro pop, alternative, jazz, Sibongile Khumalo and The Soil. As leader and musical and incorporates Sotho songs fused with a capella. The director, Asanda explores new arrangements of old piano and saxophone bring an old kwaito feel and stirrings favourites alongside her original songs. of jazz fizzle. Acateurs music appeals to all ages and races, its feel-good music, music with soul. The band consists of vocalists Sipho Hlanguza and Rebaballetswe Selematseola and pianist / saxophonist, Peter Masombuka. @Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets 19:00 17:00 15:00 gig 45 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @The Vic 13:00 50 19:00 15:00 20:00 45 @The Vic 14:00 AZLAN MAKALIMA New-school hip hop with a conscience is the Truth Music ACOUSTIQ ASSASSINS vibe. ‘We speak the facts,’ says number one on local Description outstanding reverbnation charts Azlan Makalima. This mover in the Rhini vibe hosts a radio hip hop show and organises We are Acoustiq Assassins. We bring a soulful twist ciphers for street rappers. In addition, he has collaborated with love melodies. Our aim is to heal souls through our with Finnish band, The Winestones. performances as our songs have a deep-rooted message. We believe in creativity, originality and influencing people the right way. We create music to ears,not eyes...

@The Vic # 50m ! $ Tickets @The Vic # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 15:30 14:00 gig gig 14:00 30 27 12:00 13:00 17:00 50 BLAQSEED - WATERING THE SEEDS ACOUSTIC LIQUID Blaqseed is a three piece band - guitarist, vocalist rapper. This duo is acoustic music on adrenalin! Be prepared for They describe their music as acoustic soul for its simple an exciting mix of live acoustic music, rhythmic percussion melodies, sing along choruses and thought provoking and soulful lyrics. Throw in a juggling drummer who lyrics. Simplicity is key, but they’ve added elements such performs a little magic and you have yourself quite a show! as a bassist and a percussionist to create a sound that will resonate with people even after they have left the show. Their soulful sound is owed to the fact that they believe that music needs to reach and move people whether it is to make people dance or provoke emotions. The inability to place their music in a specific genre permits them to explore and make world music. @Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets Their music is soothing, makes you think and ultimately makes you happy. 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Graham Hotel # 50m ! $ Tickets 15:00 16:00 13:00 40 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 15:00 21:00 23:00 17:00 13:00 17:00 50 AFRO BREEZE This guitar/vocalist duo was formed in early 2014 with a view to embracing ancient African sounds. In October last BOO! WITH CHRIS CHAMELEON year they won a SOUMA Award (South African Upcoming From their humble beginnings in 1997 in a scouts hall in Artists Music Awards) for Best Afro Soul. Their debut album Brixton, Johannesburg, the lads from Boo! have seen and (The Journey) is due for release in May 2015. played the world – when sleeping on carpets, on sofas and by the roadside after 800 gigs in 7 years in 17 countries eventually took its toll, a simpler life beckoned. But it was not to be, the bug has bitten and Boo! are back. Hairier and harder than ever. Monki punk has become guerrilla punk! @Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Rhodes Chapel # 50m ! $ Tickets 17:00 15:00 17:00 19:00 50 gig 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:30 17:00 21:30 100 237 238

CHASING JAYKB KAHN Chasing Jaykb (pron: Jay-Kib) is a Botswana-born band Kahn, the frontman of The Parlotones, has been working bringing funky post-folk pop music with an African touch. on his much talked about solo project Salt, which was If Bjork, Little Dragon, Kishi Bashi and Johnny Klegg made released in February 2015. This year, he will be bringing a baby, it would be in this band. All fun-lovers, dancers and his new solo work, along with some Parlotones favourites storytellers will jam with Trans* vocalist, Kat Kai Kol-Kes. to the Festival. Join Kahn as he takes you on a cathartic experience of new melodies interlaced with classic musical memories.

@The Vic # 50m ! $ Tickets @Thomas Pringle Hall # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 22:00 20:00 21:00 18:00 48 20:30 18:00 100

DUNCAN PARK LEFA MOSEA AND DOUBLE STANDARDS Raw acoustic blues, sleazy kwela tunes, roof-raisingly QUINTET raucous folk and some rather unexpected soulful pop Fresh from breaking out as a solo act Lefa Mosea brings sensibility. With tales of psychedelic potatoes and his quintet, Double Standards to NAF after enjoying many exploding silkworms; John the Baptist’s relationship standing ovations around the Eastern Cape and other advice and quitting smoking to get into heaven... it’s like parts around the country. Don’t miss it! nothing you’ve seen or heard before. Imaginative, playful, bizarre and disturbingly provocative.

@Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets @Graham Hotel # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 19:00 19:00 23:00 21:00 13:00 19:00 50 45 13:00 gig 15:00 50

EC AUDIO & VISUAL CENTRE LOVECHILD Great line up for the ECAVC artists on at The Vic or 3rd,4th An explosive celebration of love, a musical cocktail, a and 11th of July at NAF 2015. The Eastern Cape has its blend of deep emotions and feelings. In a time where love own gems to showcase, including Csana, Thandokazi, is misunderstood and devalued, it seeks to revive and Gunzo, and Shoelace – winners of a 2011 Standard Bank reunite the people with life’s most essential ingredient. Ovation Award for Music. Also an organic musical platform assimilating messages of love from diverse dimensions.

@The Vic # 2h ! $ Tickets @Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:00 21:00 22:00 30 19:00 gig 40 HATCHETMAN @The Vic Three men, armed with acoustic guitars, bass and cajon 16:00 18:00 40 wrap their remarkable blend of three-part harmony around an intoxicating brew of original songs. Musically, they meet at the delta of folk, blues and rock - muscular yet beautiful, MASAUKO CHIPEMBERE OF BLK powerful, poignant and at times, quite otherworldly. SONSHINE Masauko Chipembere is a member of the acoustic duo Hatchetman will also be playing at the Guy Butler Theatre Blk Sonshine along with Neo Muyanga. In the 1990s, their with Umle and Majozi on 9 July at 21:30 music became the soundtrack for a generation of Africans searching for new ways to express themselves. He will be sharing classic songs from the Blk Sonshine repertoire and @Graham Hotel # 50m ! $ Tickets introducing new acoustic material. 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 19:00 17:00 21:00 23:00 15:00 50 45 @The Vic # 50m ! $ Tickets JOHNNY CRADLE 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B With coverage in Mail & Guardian and the Sunday 19:00 22:00 20:00 22:00 50 Times and their vocalist/producer becoming the face of clothing brand Sergeant Pepper, Johnny Cradle have entertained Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town MAX-HOBA with silky vocals and glassy guitars. Their single uLate Max-Hoba is a SAMA XXI nominee with two internationally enjoyed a video launch on Okayafrica.com – more info at successful albums under his belt. He and his band The johnnycradle.co.za. Chorus have had the privilege of playing alongside acts such as Ringo Madlingozi, Billy Ocean, Caiphus Semenya and Gregory Porter. With his captivating and electrifying performances, he has played in countries like Thailand, @The Vic # 50m ! $ Tickets Germany, Swaziland America. Max-Hoba’s AfroSoul 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B captures audiences from all corners of the globe. An act 15:30 14:00 not to be missed! gig gig 18:00 16:00 40 @Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 19:00 gig 13:00 15:00 17:00 80 239

MORAYKS PHILIP MALAN Best African Jazz Album Winner and nominee in the Best “One guitar plays back an orchestra” (The Month). Philip Sepedi Album Category at the 9th SATMA Awards in Malan is a fingerstyle guitarist who uses the whole of the October 2014. Performed with Bebe Winans at Carnival guitar to conjure up magical melodies, harmonies and City in April 2014 and was joined on stage by his mentor, bass lines, all at the same time. His instrumental music is world renowned musician Vusi Mahlasela at his album described as storytelling, drawing inspiration from nature launch in July 2014. and the rich diversity of South African people. “… Malan’s music is unlike that of others. He carefully brings together simple melodies and intricate guitar work in a performance which is easy-going and intimate” (CUE - NAF 2014). @Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets @Graham Hotel # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 19:00 15:00 17:00 gig 60 54 13:00 15:00 23:00 17:00 60 54

MOVI M QADASI & MAQHINGA Movi M presents an Afro Soul tribute concert, where he will Hailing from the heart of Zululand, Qadasi and Maqhinga be paying tribute to musicians who have inspired him to are an acoustic duo reviving the powerful sounds of embark on his musical journey. The repertoire consist of traditional Maskandi music. Both SAMA and SATMA Award songs from his SATMA nominated album and songs from nominees in their own right, joining forces has resulted in , Mariam Makeba, Jabu Khanyile and many a fusion of traditional Zulu and western folk music of an other legendary artists. international calibre.

@Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets @Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 19:00 gig 55 50 20:00 21:00 65 59 @The Vic @The Vic 16:00 19:00

NEEM SOUL REHILWE “NEEM” (real name - Sipho Mtsatse) is a contemporary Rehilwe Mooketsi has been as described as a solo vehicle afro-soul singer, song-writer, composer, musician, carrying beautiful sensitive, romantic and confessional guitarist and entertainer hailing from East London. This material. Songs written by this young musician serve not multi-talented muso has graced high-profile functions in only as entertainment but also as tools for love and same South Africa and neighbouring countries. He brings an love protest. Radio 2000 Disc jockey Benjy Mudie said ‘she all-round musical experience to heal music lovers with live, should never change her voice’. therapeutic acoustic sounds.

@Graham Hotel # 50m ! $ Tickets @Graham Hotel # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 13:00 21:00 17:00 13:00 80 72 19:00 15:00 15:00 40

RHODES JAZZ QUARTET NOMHLE NONGOGO AND BAND The Rhodes University Jazz Quartet perform original Another star on the rise, artist Nomhle Nongogo is one compositions by Nishlyn Ramanna, drawing on South of Mzansi’s newest song sensations. Her debut release African, Indian and African-American musics. Original Ikwezi (Morning Star) received national acclaim with SAMA compositions by Nishlyn Ramanna (piano), Pep Solà-Nivbó Award nominations for Best Female and Best African (sax), Kingsley Buitendag (bass), Emmanuel Pitsiladis Adult Contemporary. The phenomenal musician from Port (drums) Elizabeth began her music career in 2002 with Joyous Celebration before becoming one of the country’s most sought after backing vocalists and session musicians. She has worked and collaborated with other amazing artists including HHP, Thandiswa Mazwai, Khuli Chana, Unathi Msengana and many others. @Beethoven Room # 1h ! $ Tickets @The Vic # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 21:30 50 45 20:00 17:00 20:00 50 SAXIT Highly acclaimed jazz fusion saxophone quartet Saxit! will OTTOMAN SLAP: AN ITINERANT TALE be performing a show of original improvised music and THROUGH MUSIC AND DANCE reworked arrangements of jazz standards. Be prepared to hear a mix of jazz, funk, Indian classical, African and Ottoman Slap brings you melodies from the mountains of acoustic house music. An experience of rhythmic and Al-Andalus, rhythms from the Middle East and dance from sonic diversity from only four saxophones! the sands of the Sahara.This Cape Town ensemble creates ancient traditional music mixed with original pieces, featuring vocals in Spanish and Roma, Middle Eastern bellydance and an artillery of instruments.

@Rhodes Chapel # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B @Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets 10:00 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 19:00 15:00 15:00 19:00 50 45 19:00 17:30 17:00 14:00 60 54 51 240

SESHEGO GOSPEL CHOIR STEELBAND CELEBRATION – A popular and very progressive clap and tap gospel WYNBERG BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL choir from Seshego in Polokwane in the heartland of Join this group of talented scholars as they celebrate Southern Africa (Limpopo Province). The choir offers the infectious music made by the Steel Pan. Performing pure traditional African Gospel Music with a touch of Art. a repertoire consisting of contemporary classics, South With a membership of 65+, the group is well known for its African standards and Pop tunes, Steel Band Celebration outstanding stage performances, talented vocalists, and will leave you dancing in the aisles with a smile. tight, creative choreography.

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SHAMIE & HAROLDENE BACKED BY THE STUART MILNE AFRICENTIQ BAND Sensational songwriter, Stuart Milne, with his reputation Afro soul, acoustic and poetry meets in an uplifting and of questioning the system, has developed an “against life changing performance. Shamie and Haroldene have the rules” show with unorthodox use of the bass guitar. toured Cape Town extensively . Their performances are Include this with possibly the most gripping lyrics you based on motivating people though song and poetry. will ever hear, this show is guaranteed to challenge all perceptions of the norm.

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SHOTGUN TORI + THE HOUND THE BROTHERS Shotgun Tori is an indie/folk storyteller who sings straight The Brothers are a seven-piece skafrican jazz/rock// from her gut and her feet. The Hound adds shades of light fusion band with their roots deep in the Eastern Cape soil. and dark, making it edgier, more fun. They’ll share tales of Conscious songs with catchy choruses are punctuated heartache, coming of age, of being brave and imperfect. with flights of improvisational mayhem from saxophone, Expect a visual and musical journey of the heart. organ, guitar, tuba and vocals. Fronted by two jiving jesters, the Brothers are a sensory feast.

@ Graham Hotel # 50m ! $ Tickets @Rhodes Club # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 23:00 21:00 13:00 15:00 15:00 40 19:00 19:30 gig 18:00 70 63 SILVER CREEK MOUNTAIN BAND THE STIR Four decades of acoustic music have given Silver Creek Mountain Band a legendary status in South Africa. Fresh from Durbs and Joburg’s depths, The Stir is a newly Bearded, bare footed bassist Rod Dry, his son Shugg formed trio based in the Mother City. With Badyn on guitar and long time partner Jean Philippe provide high quality and vocals, and Dylan (Pestroy, Van Coke Kartel) on cajon, performances. Still on the road, still on the bread line, this violin guru, Hezron (The Accidentals, Fruit and Veggies) band is a ‘must see’! will be adding his flair to this act as a guest artist.

@Graham Hotel # 50m ! $ Tickets @Rhodes Club # ! $ 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 50m Tickets 15:00 19:00 19:00 65 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 13:00 @Rhodes Club 19:00 15:00 50 19:00 gig gig @The Vic 18:00 20:00 50 STEVE NEWMAN & ASHISH JOSHI Guitar genius Steve Newman will be at the premiere TUMI TLADI AND COSTA TINCH festival in 2015 once more, with Tabla player Ashish Joshi. Together they have wowed audiences around the world Tumi Tladi and Costa Tinch, ambassadors for Adidas, and have a fresh show to light up the acoustic stage. They are South Africa’s new music and dance duo. Their will be releasing their first duo CD at the festival, so be performances are based on high energy dancing and hip sure to get your tickets early. Instrumentation includes: hop and they originate some performance elements from Flamenco Guitar, Nylon String, Soprano Guitar, Tabla, international platforms such as LA, Germany, Poland and Darbukah, Cajon & more. New York. Having performed with SA’s upcoming artist Cassper Nyovest, this duo has proven to be a force to be

reckoned with. @Graham Hotel # 50m ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB @The Vic # 50m ! $ Tickets 17:00 19:00 17:00 21:00 23:00 19:00 17:00 100 90 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 FCB 14:00 12:00 gig 80 241

THE RETURN OF THE CYPHER – AROUND HIPHOP IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE FINGO FESTIVAL AroundHiphop along side HAP Studios and Blah Ze Blah presents to you “ The Return of the Cypher “, a three day GIG Guide hiphop festival that seeks to revive the true essence of the hiphop culture through its 5 elements. This will be exhibited in music dialogues ( topic discussions and music business), workshops ( info sharing and networks), live RHODES CLUB @ 19:00 performances and b-boy battles) This program seeks to represents hiphop in its entirely without compromising the culture. 04/07 The Brothers & The Stir 07/07 Max-Hoba & Morayks @The Vic # 2h ! $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 08/07 Silver Creek Mountain Band 09/07 Movi M & LoveChild 22:00 15:30 14:00 50 45 gig 10/07 Lefa Mosea and Double standards Quintet & Asanda Mqiki UMLE : IMOTO EBA ABANTWANA 11/07 Afro Breeze & Lefa Mosea and Double Folk band Umle, accompanied by Ondela Simakuhle and Standards Quintet Zihle Ndika create a musical experiment / experience, which loosely translated, is inspired by the “car that steals children” - folklore that has been told in many households about cops that snatch children at night - a tale of the after HIP HOP GIGS @ THE VIC effects of apartheid, through song.

Umle will also be playing at the Guy Butler Theatre with 03/07 Azlan Makalima, Ohayv Ahbir & Hatchetman and Majozi on 9 July at 21:30 Johnny Cradle (@15:30) @Graham Hotel # 50m ! $ Tickets 05/07 Azlan Makalima, Tumi Tladi and 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B Costa Tinch & Johnny Cradle (@14:00) 13:00 13:00 17:00 23:00 21:00 50 45

DOUBLE BILL I DOUBLE BILL II LAZY SUSAN FORGIVENESS Stealth Donkey Moving Pictures This film was made with no budget film, so please give it a A friendly waitress, Susan, works a double at an everyday chance, and its one-man writer, director, producer! Cape Town restaurant, deftly serving gluttons and wasps, Director: Siviwe Honobroke Mashiyi hipsters and high-tippers, racists and lechers. With some Featuring: Siviwe Honobroke Mashiyi effort she maintains both wit and service in the face of ~ # obnoxious customers – until a lousy tip gets the better of 13+ L 35 minutes her.

Director: Stephen Abbott ~ PG L # 10,3 minutes DID SHE, DIDN’T SHE? FINDING GRAHAM’S TOWN This is the second work of a new up coming film maker, whose passion drives has projects to come alive, he is a Colonel Graham and Officer Wilshire, two British settlers one man operation from shooting, directing, producing, from the early 1800s, do not like the present town of casting, editing etc Grahamstown. They decide to undertake a journey to change the narrative of history, encountering other famous Director: Siviwe Honobroke Mashiyi historical names along the way. It is a film that boasts Featuring: Siviwe Honobroke Mashiyi South African cultural splendour. ~ 13+ V # 25 minutes Director: Kyle Robinson Featuring: Chad Emslie, Mike da Silva, Masixole Heshu, Shawn Sankey @Atherstone Hall Total # 60m $ Tickets ~ ALL # 16,4 minutes 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 12:00 18:00 17:00 18:00 25 23 21 MAN ON THE LINE Man on the Line is an experimental film which reflects upon the catastrophic impact that seemingly small acts of human greed have on our environment. Set in the industrial age, this is a magical realism tale about a fisherman who cannot get enough. His greed leads him to one horrifying, astounding truth.

Director: Robinson Brothers Featuring: Richard Antrobus ~ ALL # 9:27 minutes

@Atherstone Hall Total # 35.97m $ Tickets 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 F C B 17:00 17:00 21:30 18:30 25 23 21 242 DAKAWA MUSIC PROGRAMME he Eastern Cape Department of Sport, Recreation Arts & Culture is proud to present Tan additional programme that augments its annual Jazz at Dakawa programme of jazz concerts. For five days, the Dakawa Community Centre will host talks, workshops, film screenings and live music as it seeks to develop Eastern Cape musicians. All events are free.

Capacity development programme – workshops and lectures (11:00 daily)

Documentaries/live performances – focusing on Eastern Cape music legends and other greats, as well as music that had a social comment in the political and historical perspective in the South African landscape (13:00 daily)

Performances – these are the key features of the Dakawa Music programme as they feature the selected artists from the seven districts of the Province in the Music Talent Search. The main idea is to celebrate the Eastern Cape song book and its composers thus ensuring that the music lives for generations to come and to encourage the preservation of our heritage in the music industry. Also featured will be star Eastern Cape musicians such as Andile Yenana and Feya Faku. (19:00 daily)

Night of the legends – this will be a once off event featuring the Eastern Cape legends and is presented in partnership with ECAVC, DSRAC, ECPACC, Bay TV and SABC Umhlobo Wenene. The artists involved will include: Slow Foot Jazz Group, Retsi Pule, Lulama Gawulana, Ingqoko.

DAILY PROGRAMME

3 July 11:00 Music business (Mr Sy Ntuli / BASA) 13:00 Documentary of Miriam Makeba 19:00 Collaborations featuring EC talent winner Joe Gqabi

4 July 11:00 Music rights (Samro) 13:00 Documentary of Zim Ngqawana 19:00 Collaboration featuring EC Talent winner Alfred Nzo

5 July 11:00 Archiving and documentation of music (ILAM/ Fort Hare) 13:00 Documentary of Mankunku Ngozi 19:00 Collaboration featuring EC Talent winner Sarah Baartman

6 July 11:00 Funding of the Arts (NAC/ BASA/ECPACC) 13:00 Documentary of Victor Ndlazulwana 19:00 Collaboration featuring E C talent winner O R Tambo

7 July 11:00 Arts Development and Management (CIFFSA) 13:00 Documentary on E C indigenous music 19:00 Collaboration featuring EC Talent winner Amathole

8 July 11:00 Venues and performance spaces (Joy of Jazz/ NAF) 13:00 Documentary on Zim Ngqawana 19:00 Collaboration featuring E C Talent winner Chris Hani, NMM

9 July 11:00 Needle time issues (Dodi Monamodi) 13”00 Documentary on living E C icons 19:00 Night of the Legends featuring Free State Ensemble

A mobile stage truck will also be stationed at the Dakawa precinct providing a platform for budding artists from the Free State and Eastern Cape Provinces. The Dakawa Music Programme is a partnership between the Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts & Culture, the Eastern Cape Audio and Visual Centre, and the Eastern Cape Provincial Arts & Culture Council. 243

20 YEARS LATER – THE NEW EMERGENCE Ika Lethu Foundation This exhibition focuses on diversity as a concept of renewal in South Africa. Diversity acknowledges security, human rights, economic development and African feminism. Artists: Michael Selekane, Thabo Pitso, Azael Langa, Tebogo Maise, Mpho Mkadimeny Lino graphics, Sculpture, Drawing ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @ Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street

40 STONES IN THE WALL OM Arts in conjunction with Spiritfest A faith based exhibition that responds to the concept of walls as something that hinders or builds relationships with God and within a community. Viewers can join the discussion by engaging with the artworks wherein this theme is expressed and by talking with the artists-in- residence, who will be creating artwork daily. Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture ~ All ages # Daily 9am till 11am & 2pm till 10pm @The Cory Room, Behind 108 High Street, next to the Long Table

A KAROO DUET RETURNS Nikki Thomson and Lyn Rous Artists Nikki Thomson and Lyn Rous have a love of the Karoo, its moods, peace and tranquillity and they attempt to convey this in oil, acrylic and water colour in the forms of landscapes, portraits, animals and still-life. Paintings ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm

@Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street

ABABHEMU Esimobeni Art Gallery These KZN-based artists use paper as a secondary tool on which to project their art. They have more than 15 years experience in the arts and are all involved in teaching and sharing knowledge with up and coming artists. Artists: Nonto, Thami Jali, Mthobisi Maphumulo Photography, Lino Prints, Graphics, Drawings, Paintings ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street

ADVANCING BACKWARDS Woel Design We are, to a large extent, our past. We were shaped by our distant ancestors and now, our personal experience. Antoinette Pienaar uses illustrative paper art to recreate the notion of a family crest. Reviving and re-telling the exciting lives of real South African people. Artist: Antoinette Pienaar Graphic Art, Illustration, Paper Art ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @The Provost Café, Lucas Avenue

AR’TE-FAKTS ARE FICTIONS The GFI ART GALLERY with support from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University ar’te-fakts are fictions resulting from intense bouts of poetic thinking; of idiosyncratic free-play intended to keep the joints of our neural pathways flexible. As such, the artworks on exhibition are points or articulation in an endless game of cross-border relations and associations. Artist: Jennifer Ord Paintings, Drawings ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Eastern Star Gallery, 4 Anglo African Street 244 245

ART @ THE HIGHLANDER DOGS, GODS AND OTHER THINGS A Colony of Artists Roxandra Dardagan Britz An exhibition compiled of five well known South African “Dogs, gods and other things” is an exhibition of prints artists. Solly Smook, ‘PORTRAITURE’ represented by The by Roxandra Dardagan Britz. The exhibition includes Gallery Riebeek Kasteel. Bruce Little, Sculpts to capture etchings, monotypes and mixed media works from the spirit of African wildlife, technique captures the previous exhibitions as well as recent works, which explore essential movement and attitudes of subjects. Belinda Greek mythology and the theme of sleep. Smith, Sensitive eye for colour, form and aesthetic Graphic Art, Digital Arts, Mixed Media appreciation evident in approach and brushwork. Shirley Pittaway, vibrant colour and texture choices and confident ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm brushstrokes. Mary Fowlds, A versatile mix of paintings and @Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street drawings in oil and mixed media. Drawings, Paintings EARTH DIALOGUE ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm Anthony Harris @The Highlander, 10 Worcester Street “In my paintings I use the landscape as a metaphor. My work explores the complexity of the terrain in ways that challenge the viewers’ own boundaries and conventions. BRUCE LITTLE ORIGINALS These landscapes hold within them aspects other than Internationally renowned sculptor Bruce Little, sculpts pure nature - the panorama is composed of elements that to capture the spirit of African wildlife. Self-taught and bear witness to change and evolution.” instinctual his technique captures the essential movement and attitudes of his subjects. Visit our gallery and working Paintings pewter studio, enjoy a cappuccino and take a walk ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm through our unique factory. All artworks are for sale. @Anthony Harris: Studio/Gallery, 51b Cuyler Street, Central Port Elizabeth Artists: Bruce Little, Heidi Slaughter & Tori Stowe Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Hand Crafts EGAZINI EXPRESSIONS ~ Ages: 18+ # Daily from 9am till 5pm Egazini Outreach Project @Bruce Little Originals, 3 Strowan Rd / Unit 4 / Grahamstown Egazini Expressions is an exhibition of women’s work from the Egazini Outreach Project. The exhibition is a veritable showcase of life. It includes handprinted textiles created CARINUS CELEBRATED ARTISTS by Violet Booi, Nomathemba Tana and Daniwe Gongqa. Johan Carinus Art Centre Fabric art, Textiles The Johan Carinus Art Centre is an established and popular Festival Fringe exhibition venue, where a wide ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm range of quality art exhibitions are on display every year. The venue’s beautiful, big gardens and Georgian style @ Carinus Annex, Donkin Street heritage buildings add value to the art viewing experience. Artists: P. Midlane, T. Stowe, R. Dardagan Britz, C. Haines, M. Haines, S. Diego, T.Swift, L. Bambo, R. Pullen, M. Rorke, FACETS N. Roselli, N. Jonker Longtable Restaurant ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm An eclectic mix of artwork on display, produced by young professional up and coming artists from Grahamstown and @Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street surrounding areas. Sure to intrigue all art lovers. Artists: Barry Barrichievy, Francois Knoetze, Madelize CHANGES van der Merwee, Julie Birch, Yolanda Birch, Liezl Benade, Anne Mari Burger, Jenny Maltby & Les Bird Graeme Germond, and other Eastern Cape artists. This is the second time that these three well known local Mixed Media artists have exhibited in the Port Elizabeth segment of the ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm National Arts Festival and hope that this year will be even @The Long Table, 108 high Street, St George’s Hall more successful than last year. The exhibition includes many new works which reflect changes direction and emphasis whilst retaining each artists distinctive style FINE PRINT ILLUSTRATION EXHIBITION ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm Group Exhibition Featuring work from: Sarah Pratt, Grant Bayman, Wonder @Jan Immelman Hall, St Georges Prep, 8 Park Drive, PE Meyer, Kirsten Beets, Quinten Weyer, David Griessel

CHARMAINE HAINES – CONTEMPORARY Mixed Media CERAMIC OBJET D’ART EXHIBITION ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm Fish and birds have always been part of my iconography. Together with my portraits they’ve become autobiographical design elements that repeat themselves @Underculture Contemporary,98A Park Drive, Central, Port Elizabeth throughout my work. This is further evident in my most recent series of works, which incorporate fish and bird elements not only because of their decorative quality FLUX – AN EXHIBITION OF NEW AND but also because they add both a narrative and mythical RECENT PAINTINGS presence to the sculptural pieces. Greg Schultz Ceramics Greg Schultz further explores notions of the ethereal with ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm air, light and water in a solo exhibition of new and recent painting @Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street

DELIA FUNK ART ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm My textile art accessories are all individually printed from hand cut blocks. Each piece is unique and very individual. @St. Patricks Hall, Hill Street An art textile. I work in a very special way to produce these beautiful African style textiles and there is nothing else that’s looks 歩 瑩 扡楲⁣ Artist: Delia Funk Fabric Art ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street 246 247

FORT ENGLAND ART EXHIBITION Fort England Art Group This exhibition of painting and drawings is the artwork of mental health service users from Fort England Forensic Psychiatric Hospital Art Group. Weekly studio-based art groups allow for individual explorations of subject matter, art materials and methods, resulting in a wide variety of creative visual expressions. Drawings, paintings ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Oatlands School, African Street

FREE STATE ARTS TALK Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation This exhibition includes artwork by artists from the Free State Province whose varied styles and talents can’t fail to enchant you. We offer you high quality, oil, charcoal, watercolours and plastic art – something new in the sector. And if you wait for 25 - 30 minutes you may also get an instant pencil and charcoal artwork. Hold on to your hats Art Lovers, this will be the exhibition you don’t want to miss. Artists: Motseokae Klaas, Richard Bollers , Vincent, Tshidi Motsumi, Simon Ndaba, Khomari, Sicelo ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street

FROM A DISTANCE Chirombo Moderneum of Ancestry Art Gallery This exhibition examines the artists’ engagement with their natural landscape, in physical and spiritual forms. Through their warm and powerful, yet silent tone the works aim to convey something physically tangible yet felt by and connected with a deeper spiritual awareness. Curator: Mathias Chirombo. ~ All ages # Daily from 8:30am till 8pm

@The Old Gaol, Somerset Street

FUN FUR FLORAL FEATHER Lynda Soutar A selection of recent artworks inspired by “pause, stop, breath, relax and look around you.” It is then that you will really see the beauty in nature. Come and share this close up perspective of animal and plant life. Paintings ~ All ages # Open Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 1pm. Closed Sunday @Bentwoods, 2A Cawood Street

GOD’S PERFECT PALETTE Brian Hammond Brian was helped into the wonderful world of painting in oils by an artist friend who inspired his passion for landscapes. Brian’s work portrays references from wide country vistas, to big skies of fire, peaceful country scenes and water features. All this is inspired on by the beauty and magnificence of God’s creation. Paintings ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street Be well organised this year... Use our online scheduling tool HARE COLLECTABLES Martin Haines to fill every minute withAMAZ!NG Hare Collectables is a selection of ceramic works both sculptural and functional. The visual image of the hare is used to explore both form and surface using both texture and pattern to create an integral relationship between the various design elements. Ceramics ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street

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HERE . THERE Tori Stowe Working in charcoal and collage – using images of people, other beasts and plants as her vocabulary – Tori Stowe explores the concept of belonging. The individual and the group. The herd and the herbaceous border... Drawings, Installation, Mixed Media, Collage ~ All ages # Daily from 9:30am till 5pm

@Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street

IBUYAMBO Gompo Art Centre Artists: Dinisile Qapa, Wandile Ntangiso, Ckho Mququ, mqfuzandile Solombela, Nowest Ramba, Simphwe Lalisile, Sinethemban Njotini, Sqndiso Wangama, Sonwebiso Ngitesa Lino, Sculpture, Ceramic Art, Hand Craft, Paintings, ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm

@Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

IDENTITY COHESION DRM Art Solution This exhibition aspires to promote social identity and cohesion in South Africa and in the African continent using fine art works. Th exhibition will showcase a balanced mixture of two dimensional and three dimensional art pieces. Artists: Roy Ndinisa, Daniel Mosako, Joao Ladeira, Tladi Mokgokolo, Charles Nkomo, Motsile Wa Nthodi, Bongi Bengu, Danisile Ncube, Joseph Muzondo ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

INDALO Keiskamma Trust trading as Keiskamma Art Project Indalo is a multi-disciplinary youth art, music and drama project incorporating a linked exhibition and musical performance as well as a work programme for children. We premiere a series of 6 tapestries depicting Eastern- Cape birds and plants inspired by the medieval unicorn tapestries from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Memory Hall, Leicester Street

IT’S ALL ABOUT LIGHT 4 R D Mckenzie Light continues to be the core element in my work. Some new topics have been approached with sometimes exciting new directions. The journey continues to be great fun.

~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm

@Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street

JENNEFER ANN GALLERY Jennefer Ann Jennefer Ann is a Rhodesian born artist now living in a beautiful part of South Africa called Chinsta East in the Eastern Cape. The awe-inspiring beauty of South Africa I call “Heart Beat of Africa”. I love to paint from my own photographs from wildlife, landscapes, seascapes to portraits. Every one of my paintings is inspired by wanting to share with you a part of the “Heart Beat of Africa” from my perspective. Paintings ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street 250 251

JENNEFER ANN GALLERY & LOVE FOR NATURE’S ECHO: RENEWING OUR NATURE RESPONSIBILITY TO NATURE Jennefer Ann & Piet & Dieuwie Holthuysen Artists of Nelson Mandela Bay with support from This is combined family exhibition of various artworks Investec Wealth & Investment from wildlife, landscapes. seascapes and portraits in a Sponsored by the GFI ART GALLERY and Investec Wealth brand new venue. Works can be viewed at your leisure & Investment, an exhibition in collaboration with the Addo at the 4 Star Lanherne Guest House in tranquil garden Honorary Rangers and the penguins of St Croix island. surroundings with tea/coffee and cake for sale. Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Lino Cuts, Paintings Photography ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Lanherne Guest House, 7 Harrismith Street @GFI Art Gallery, 30 Park Drive, Port Elizabeth

LAST WRITES ON THE BEACH Guy Thesen Lindsay Gay Page-Macdonald Paranormal is a word used to describe events and My inspiration for this exhibition is as always the sea, phenomena that cannot currently be explained by the coast, and the magic of found objects. Jewel like rational or scientific means or by the laws of nature as seaweeds, slippery fish, magical sculptural shell shapes understood by Western science. This work is a personal and textures reminiscent of long beach walks along our account, beginning after an eye injury, of my research into exquisite coast. Glistening pools for bathing and bright interpretations of this subtle unseen world. sunny days. Bright and colourful paintings and textured white ceramics. Artists: Lindsay Gay Page-Macdonald, Lino Cuts, Graphic Art, Photography Mandy Glover ~ PG # Daily from 9am till 5pm ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Carinus Annex, Donkin Street @South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), Somerset Street

LOCAL ARTISTS’ EXHIBITION OPEN SPACES This exhibition includes the work by a number of local Gordon Legg artists from the Eastern Cape whose varied styles and Paintings of landscapes and seascapes in watercolour and talents can’t fail to enchant you. We offer you a selection acrylic of reasonably priced, high quality, water colours, oil and acrylic paintings as well as hand painted cards. Drawings, Paintings Paintings ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm

@Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street @Albany Natural History Museum, Somerset Street

LOCKING HORNS WITH EARTH AND SKY PAINT AND GLASS Donvé Branch, Sue Hoppe & Stephanie Liebetrau Susan Alexander Three diverse artists, rooted in Africa yet known for their A combined exhibition of oil paintings, decorative and unique viewpoints and styles. Donvé Branch blends functional glass ware, as well as graphic prints, featuring classical ceramic forms with traditional African firing. Sue landscapes, people and portraits, that range in size from Hoppe has a bold approach to paintings with a social miniatures to larger works. Glass works include small to message. Stephanie Liebetrau’s evocative oils fuse women large plates and bowls in various shapes and sizes, original with natural South African elements. and one of a kind. Paintings, Ceramics, Photography Paintings, Glass ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street @Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street

LOVE FOR NATURE PAINTINGS BY MERYL Piet & Dieuwie Holthuysen Meryl Edwards & Milanda McCann These artists have been painting for over 35 years, Showing an evocative passion for Africa, her wildlife, her covering the spectrum of wildlife, landscapes and people and her beautiful country. In mixed media Meryl seascapes, and have had exhibitions in the Netherlands, presents a rich selection of recent paintings accompanied Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana. They have sold many by several of her daughter, Melinda’s work. paintings around the world. Residing in Port Alfred, they Works reflecting a love for this land. now enjoy painting Karoo, Cape and seascapes. Paintings Paintings ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Steve Biko Building, Princess Alfred Street @Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

MBDA “WISH YOU WERE HERE” PALETTES IN NATURE ART Events Mandy McKay & Alison van Zijl Wish You Were Here is a high profile, high-visibility series In this their fourth joint exhibition, Mandy and Alison once of exhibitions of artworks featuring Nelson Mandela Bay again bring the beauty and magnificence of this beloved (NMB). It is a coordinated effort between private sector country to their canvasses. Landscapes, wildlife, studies members of the NMB artistic community and prominent and portraits in oils and water colours form the basis of this private sector entities, with the goal of promoting both the uplifting celebration of the beauty that surrounds us. NMB and its visual artists. Artists: Anthony Harris, Gregory Paintings, Drawings, Fabrics / Textiles, Photography Kerr, Cedric Vanderlinden, Bretten-Anne Moolman, Dolla ~ # Sapeta, Alan Grobler, Lydia Holmes and many more All ages Daily from 9am till 5pm @ ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm Albany Natural History Museum, Somerset Street @Trinity Hall, Hill Street 252

PHALL♂S Phall♂s Art Gallery The one and only collection celebrating Phallic Art in contemporary Africa is proudly exhibited at Bon Tempo (see map). Intrepid festinos can discover phalli, sculptures and installations erect all over the Priapic Garden and then the Phallery sports another bulging variety of artworks – shape and size matters! Free entry; bar and refreshments. Artists: Bernard Barry; Ian Anderson; Will Alves; Pieter Wannenburg; Volkher and Claudia von Lengeling; Wendy Manser; Christa Koekemoer; Tertius Spies; Hansie Oosthuizen ~ Strictly adults only # Viewing by appointment only Call 0832810257 or FaceBook: phallosart @Bon Tempo, Farm 5, Manley Flats

RHODES FINE ART STUDENT EXHIBITION Rhodes University Department Of Fine Art The Rhodes Fine Art Student Exhibition is an annual highlight of the Visual Arts on the Fringe. Featuring exciting work in a wide range of media, by students from first to fourth year of undergraduate study, the exhibition is hung in the oldest art school in the country. A must see. Printmedia and Digital Arts, Photographs, Sculpture, Drawing, Painting ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Rhodes Art School Gallery, Somerset Street

SENTINELS Taryn King Sentinels’s intervention into the Grahamstown town-scape blurs the various dichotomies out of which the location itself was borne: art and life, the public and private, the human and the manufactured. The sculpted figures haunt the passer-by discreetly, inviting one to engage through the act of seeing and observation while in turn frustrating the onlooker through a refusal of an equal relationship. (Written by Dr Phindezwa Mnyaka). Sculpture, Installation ~ All ages Open # Daily from 08:00 @Rhodes Theatre Complex

STAUDE SOW EXHIBITION Chanelle Staude Staude SOW Exhibition is Chanelle’s 17th solo exhibition on the Fringe; her 3rd from her studio space. This exhibition showcases Staude’s efficiency, competence and experience as both oil painter and draughtsman. Her subjects include typical Eastern Cape landscape; unpretentious and well-executed. A must-see. Paintings, Drawings, Photography, Mixed Media, Collage ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Staude Gallery, 1 Hillsview Road

SURFACE Monique Wiffen Rorke Captivated by the qualities of and associations evoked by surface, the artist explores surface as subject matter and medium. This exhibition experiments with the boundaries of photography. Introducing practices and methods associated with other media, Surface reconsiders the photographic image. ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm

@Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street

THE LANDSCAPES OF CONSEQUENCE Cedric Vanderlinden The Landscapes of Consequence is a Neo-Romantic investigation into the sublime future destruction that awaits us at the hands of a violent and terrifying changing climate. Paintings ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm

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THE SHADOW OF A POET Helen Brent Cooper “In the midst of despair, she celebrated hope. Confronted by death, she asserted the beauty of life.” - Nelson Mandela. Inspired by the life and poems of Ingrid Jonker, this series of Intaglio Prints, through traditional and contemporary printmaking, explores the shadows within and around us. Drypoint, etching, collagraph, mezzotint, monoprint, papermaking, embossing ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

THINKING SPACES Sonia Strumpfer Come feast your eyes on an exhibition of two well-known Eastern Cape artists. Their works are diverse, ranging from portraits and landscapes to wildlife and abstract works, bursting with texture and colour. Artists: Sonia Strumpfer & Evelien Burger Paintings, printmaking ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

VINYASA Ulrike Baldzuhn The subjects that I paint are from my persona; experiences. Thus my exhibit ‘flows’ (Vinyasa) from life drawings produced in my studio, on to tranquil scenes from Plettenberg Bay, where I live, to my travels in India. The value of art, for the painter and viewer, lies in the journey of exploring the unknown, stirring you emotionally and enriching the soul. Paintings, Drawings ~ All ages # Daily from 9am till 5pm @Carinus Annex, Donkin Street 254 CELEBRATING THE ARTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRISTIAN FAITH

WORSHIP

Choral Evensong Featuring the Cathedral Choir and the dedication of a tapestry by the Keiskamma Arts Project. 3 July 17:30 The Cathedral

Sunday Mass VISUAL ART DRAMA Presider: Fr Russell Pollitt SJ – Director of the Jesuit Institute. 40 Stones in the Wall “Romero” – A monologue with multimedia Preacher: Fr Nicholas King SJ – Visiting Professor of New Curated by Operation Mobilisation Enter into the inspiring and moving story of Archbishop Testament Studies, Boston College Massachusetts. Open daily 2-12 July 09:00 to 11:00 & 14:00 to 22:00 Oscar Romero. Romero, who became Archbishop of San Salvador in 1977, spoke fearlessly on behalf of the poor 5 July 08:00 St Patrick’s Church, Hill Street Official opening 4 July 16:30 Walkabouts and victims of oppression, and called upon the US to stop giving military support to the government of El Salvador. Festival Eucharist 7 July 16:00 11 July 10:00 The Cory Room, Behind 108 High Street, next to the In 1980 he was assassinated, shot dead while celebrating Come and participate in a magnificent Choral Eucharist Long Table Mass. with rousing hymns led by the Cathedral Director of Music See page 243 for exhibition description Devised by and featuring Fr Anthony Egan SJ. and Organist Dr Andrew-John Bethke. Byrd’s Four-Part 6, 8 & 10 July 16:00 - 16:45 Mass will be sung by a quartet from the Cathedral and Paintings by the late Deon Lemmer Rhodes Chamber Choirs. St Patrick’s Church, 47 Hill Street Deon Lemmer, a painter and art teacher in Alexandria, Preacher: Dr Vicentia Kgabe Eastern Cape, died in January 2014. The paintings on 5 July 09:30 The Cathedral display in the Cathedral reflect his deep spirituality. Preacher: The Revd Rob Penrith “SPIRITUAL DOODLING AND Open daily 2-12 July 10:00 – 16:00 except during MANDALAS” 12 July 09:30 The Cathedral performances The Cathedral Praying with crayons and paper! “Sacred Doodling” is a Daily Mass Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God colourful and non-threatening exercise in which anyone can engage, using a scripture text and some crayons, Celebrated by one of the Jesuits. Paul Greenway’s large-scale installation based on 6-10 July 12:00 St Patrick’s Church, Hill Street and a willingness on the part of the pray-er to engage photography of the night sky provides a stately-moving uncritically in an associative stream of consciousness visual counterpoint to the poetry of the psalm. Lucernarium prayer, with images. Open daily 2-12 July 10:00 – 16:00 except during With the Revd Michelle Pilet, Rector of St Paul’s Anglican A lucernarium is a simple service of lighting the lamps performances The Cathedral before the darkness of evening sets in. The service Church, Parkhurst, Johannesburg. will begin in darkness and will centre around lighting 7 & 9 July 16:00-17:30 a central “Christ” candle and then lighting numerous SPIRITFEST WINTER SCHOOL St Patrick’s Church, 47 Hill Street candles around the church. A small choir will lead plainsong sections of the service. Lectures hosted by the Jesuit Institute of South Africa 8 July 17:30 The Cathedral SPIRITUAL CONVERSATIONS St Patrick’s Church, 47 Hill Street NOTE NEW VENUE! Drop in for as long as you wish to discuss, with an experienced spiritual director, the deeper dimensions of “St Ignatius and Gerard Manley-Hopkins” MUSIC the art that you are experiencing or creating. by Fr Graham Pugin SJ With the Revd Michelle Pilet. Gospel Africa Music Concerts 4 July 11:00 – 12:00 Daily 6 –10 July 09:00-11:00; 14:00-16:00 3 July & 4 July 19:00 St Patrick’s Church, 47 Hill Street Trinity Presbyterian Church, Hill Street “Turbulent Priests: Denis Hurley, Oscar Romero and R30 at the door. the Prophetic Vocation” By Fr Anthony Egan SJ . Be inspired by the life and OPEN MIC Organ Recitals witness of two courageous 20th century Archbishops. This year marks the centenary of Hurley’s birth. Share a poem, a story, a sacred text, a song or testimony – Andrew-John Bethke, Director of Music at Grahamstown yours or somebody else’s – with a sympathetic audience Cathedral 11 July 11:00 – 12:00 in the beauty of a sacred site. 3 & 10 July 15:00 The Cathedral Sensitively emceed by the Revd Claire Nye Hunter. Rhodes Chamber Choir Artisans of Holiness 8 July 15:00 – 16:00 Chapter House inside the Cathedral Conducted by Dr Andrew-John Bethke. All lectures by Fr Graham Pugin SJ 4 & 5 July 15:00 The Cathedral 11:00 – 12:00 St Patrick’s Church, 47 Hill Street

Grahamstown Methodist Circuit Choir 6 July “Robert Southwell: Poet, priest and martyr” Meet a 16th century English poet whose faith led him to a BOOK LAUNCH A combined choir directed by Nonqaba Anthony, with gruesome death. Building African Christian Marriages members from a number of Methodist congregations in Professor Elijah Baloyi (UNISA). Copies of his book will be and around Grahamstown. 7 July “Matteo Ricci: The wise man from the East” on sale. 11 July 15:00 Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), was one of the founding figures 5 July 09:30 in the context of a Eucharist service Commemoration Methodist Church, of the Jesuit China missions. St Augustine’s Church, Goba Street, Church Square Joza, Grahamstown 8 July “Guy Tachard: Ambassador, priest and St. Michael’s Marimbas scientist” Penny Whitford and the band play sacred and secular Guy Tachard (1651–1712), was sent on two occasions music mainly from Africa. to the Kingdom of Siam (modern-day Thailand) by the French king. THE DALRO/SAMRO DEBATE 6 & 8 July 13:15 – 14:00 The Cathedral in association with Wordfest 9 July “Gerard Manley-Hopkins: Was Hopkins “Can the media improve tolerance and understanding Bell-ringing in the Cathedral Tower really happy?” among world religions?” Climb the narrow spiral steps to view the oldest bell tower A closer look at the life and faith of this beloved 19th in South Africa and learn how the enormous bells are century English priest and poet. A panel of experts explores an issue that troubles many rung. people in different cultures round the world. 10 July “Teilhard de Chardin: Prophet, priest and 3, 4 & 10 July 13:00 & 13:30 5 July 11:00 palaeontologist” Ringing Chamber, Cathedral Tower Seminar Room 1, Eden Grove Building Teilhard de Chardin, a 20th century French philosopher 15 people maximum per tour. and Jesuit priest, took part in the discovery of Peking For more about Spiritfest see Free – but donations encouraged. Man. http://www.grahamstowncathedral.org/spiritfest Tickets at the base of the tower. 255

he 2016 National Arts Festival will run from Thursday 1 July to Sunday 11 July 2016. The Festival is once again calling Tfor compelling, innovative and high-quality performances, exhibitions and cross-disciplinary works that reflect, celebrate, interrogate and inform our complex social and cultural realities.

The curatorial thrusts of the 201 6 programme to guide artists, companies and galleries in their submissions, and the closing dates for proposals will be available from mid July on the Festival’s website: www.nationalartsfestival.co.za

Enquiries can be addressed to the Artistic Director, Ismail Mahomed, on 046 603 1103 or by email at [email protected]

Winners of the Standard Bank Ovation Awards will receive written invitations to submit proposals for the 2016 Arena programme.

Fringe applications will be available in October 2015 and registration will close on Friday 15 January 2016.

Forms and information booklets will be available on-line at www.nationalartsfestival.co.za.

Enquiries should be addressed to the Fringe Manager, Zikhona Nweba, on 046 603 1177 or by email to [email protected]. 256 TRANSNET VILLAGE GREEN FAIR

he Village Green Fair is home to some of the best craft Tand crafters South Africa has to offer. Handpicked for their fine work and dedication to their craft, most of these artists will be present to talk to you, and to showcase their work.

Give yourself a couple of hours (or days!) to wander the maze of marquees at the Fair. Explore the amazing talent of some extraordinary artists, and pick up some of their work to take home with you. It’s unquestionably the most interesting collection of tastes, sights and sounds you’ll ever find in one place. Then, when you’re on the verge of dropping from all the shopping, you can get a meal from the food court, or enjoy some spontaneous outbursts of AMAZING! The kids play area will feature performances, clowning, puppet shows and activities to keep them occupied throughout the day.

If you’re wondering where to find the latest sporting action, the Beer Garden includes flat screen TVs so you don’t need to miss a single second.

The adjacent Steve Biko Building houses a host of exhibition venues, a box office, a restaurant and the Smirnoff Music Room, and will be wi-fi enabled, making sure that those who want to stay connected with the outside world have plenty of opportunity to do so.

FIDDLERS GREEN There will be fun for the whole family many other activities. You will also have at Fiddlers Green! Here you will find an opportunity to shop from the craft the fun fair and a kiddies entertainment tent and eat from an array of irresistible area where there will be hourly puppet goodies. All this and an opportunity shows as well as face painting, crafting, to get all the tickets you need from the musical games, puppet making and box office on site!

259 TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION

AIR TRAVEL AVIS VAN & 4X4 RENTAL

Flights operating into Port Elizabeth (130km from Grahamstown) or East To qualify for special Festival rates on van and 4X4 rentals call Central London (150km from Grahamstown) include: SAA, British Airways, Reservations on 0861 021 111 and quote ZX. Mango or SAFAIR. It is advisable to book early to take advantage of the best discounts and seats. Bookings should be made through any ASATA travel agent or through the respective airline website. Note: the Festival HOPPER SERVICE discounted shuttle service is only available between Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. For information on East London to Grahamstown shuttles For those who do not have transport in town the Festival Hopper Service contact Blunden Tours or Van Rensburg Shuttle Services. Contact details is easy and accessible with suitably placed ‘hop’ on/off stops around below. Grahamstown, thereby taking away the stress of parking and congestion in a small city. Virtually every Festival venue is within a 5-minute walk from a Hopper stop. Hoppers run frequently throughout the day; with a BLUNDEN TOURS SHUTTLE TRANSPORT convenient night bus until 1am. For enquiries phone 060 882 8316.

The Festival has partnered with Blunden Tours to operate a bus service The Festival Hopper is free but a R5 tip for the driver would be greatly between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown. Please check-in at the Blunden appreciated! See the foldout map in the Festival Programme for the desk in the arrivals hall of Port Elizabeth airport. Tickets for the shuttle Hopper route and timetable. service can be purchased through the Festival website – www.nationalartsfestival.co.za or by calling 0860 002 004. Prior booking is essential. TAXI SERVICE

Single Festival fare: R300 Blunden runs a Cab on Call Service across Grahamstown during the Return Festival fare: R600 Festival for 1-2 passengers at R70 a trip within a 5km radius, and R100 within a 100km radius. To book the cab, use the 24 hour number: Inter-city Timetable: (See schedule below – applies daily from 082 259 0667 1 July 2015 – 13 July 2015)

BUS/COACH TRANSPORT VAN RENSBURG SHUTTLE SERVICES Grahamstown is accessible by scheduled coach services. Consult a travel This transport company operates between Port Elizabeth and agent for details. Grahamstown, Port Alfred and Kenton-on-Sea. For details contact Gerhard Janse van Rensburg: 083 654 3242 / 041 451 0446 or e-mail: [email protected]. ACCOMMODATION

Please use the enclosed Hospitality Brochure to make accommodation CAR HIRE enquiries and bookings. All accommodation establishments run independently of the Festival. For a comprehensive listing of AVISBUDGET CAR HIRE – The Festival’s preferred car rental company accommodation in Grahamstown and surrounds, please visit for 2015. AVISBUDGET sponsorship of vehicles for Festival usage is www.grahamstown.co.za gratefully acknowledged. Contact Ronald at Go Travel Grahamstown tel. 046 622 8233 / Children’s activities, sport facilities, game lodges and restaurants are 046 622 2235; or e-mail: [email protected] for a also listed in the Hospitality Brochure, so that you can plan your trip competitive AvisBudget Car rental rate. right down to the nitty gritty!

Bus 1 Bus 2 Bus 3 Bus 4 Bus 5 Bus 6

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Blunden High St 06:00 08:00 10:00 12:00 14:30 17:00 Grahamstown

Grahamstown 06:05 06:15 08:05 08:15 10:05 10:15 12:05 12:15 14:35 14:45 17:05 17:15 Monument

PE Airport 08:15 08:45 10:15 10:30 12:15 13:00 14:15 15:30 16:45 17:00 19:15 20:00

Grahamstown 10:45 11:00 13:30 13:45 15:00 15:15 18:30 18:45 19:00 19:15 22:00 22:15 Monument

Blunden High St 11:15 14:00 15:30 19:00 19:30 22:30 Grahamstown 260 BOOKING PROCEDURES Booking opens nationwide on 4 May 2015

ARTBUCKS MEMBERS VISITORS WITH A DISABILITY ArtBucks members have a preferential booking window from 1 May 2015, Wheelchairs can be accommodated in most venues. Please contact the during which time they may email their ticket requirements to Box Office Manager on telephone 046 603 1186 who will discuss your [email protected] or fax them to 086 233 2192. requirements and arrange assistance for you where necessary. No telephone bookings will be accepted until Monday 4 May.

BOOKING TICKETS: REFUNDS 1. Select your shows: Go through the Programme, or the online schedule Refunds for Main and Fringe events will be made only in the event of at www.nationalartsfestival.co.za, and choose the productions you programme alterations or cancellations. The National Arts Festival cannot would like to see. make other refunds or undertake to resell or exchange tickets. 2. Book your shows: Once you know what you’d like to see, you have several booking options: The Festival organisers cannot be held responsible if a production runs a. ONLINE: longer than the advertised duration. This information is supplied by the There are two ways of booking on our website at performers and is published as a guide. Allow at least 50 minutes between www.nationalartsfestival.co.za. performances. i. You can use our new ON-LINE SCHEDULING APP to plan your trip to Grahamstown. It will take your selection of productions and automatically design a schedule for you, fitting everything in to the dates of your trip and filling an online shopping cart with your LATE ARRIVALS chosen tickets. ii. You can fill a shopping cart manually, choosing your shows one by We regret that we cannot refund tickets for late arrivals at performances. one. Either way, you would then use one of the ticket collection methods below to get your tickets.

b. CALL CENTRE: DISCOUNTS Phone the Festival Call Centre 0860 002 004 and book your tickets with The following discounts are made available to selected Main and Fringe one of our friendly box office staff members – you may use your credit events – where available, discounts are indicated in the Festival Programme card to make payment or make an EFT or direct deposit payment. alongside the ticket price for each production.

c. EMAIL OR FAX: zz Concession tickets for students, learners and pensioners (on Complete the enclosed Booking Form, following the instructions it production of pensioner’s or ID card or student registration card) contains for returning it to us and making payment. Once your booking – ONE discounted ticket per performance has been made, you will be given a reference number. zz Block Bookings – groups of TEN OR MORE seats per performance may be booked at the discounted rate (please mark appropriate price 3. Collect your tickets: Whichever of the above methods you choose, you column). need to bring the credit card you used to make your booking, or proof zz Buy One, Get One Free – these discounts have been offered by of deposit for EFT transactions, to Grahamstown and come along to some Fringe producers – to qualify you must order two tickets to the the Monument Box Office with your confirmation email and reference performance and you will only be charged for one number, and you can collect your tickets from our cashiers or one of the zz 50% Fringe and Free Fringe performances – these are date specific self-service terminals. discounts offered by Fringe producers. Where productions are free, you can still book a ticket to ensure that you will be able to get into the TICKET ENQUIRIES performance. For performances on the Free Fringe, donations will be Call Centre 0860 002 004 encouraged in lieu of a ticket price – please donate generously! Box Office Manager 046 603 1186 Festival Manager 046 603 1163 Members of the Festival’s ArtBucks loyalty programme need to quote their General Festival Enquiries 046 603 1103 membership number at the time of purchasing tickets to ensure that their purchase is recorded. At the end of the Festival the amount of credit due to the member, as per the rules of the programme, will be calculated. Credit GRAHAMSTOWN BOX OFFICES that has been accumulated by Artbucks members for purchases at the 2014 Festival, will be deducted on request from the amount due for their 2015 Monument Box Office Festival purchases. (1820 Settlers National Monument) From 4 May: Mon to Fri 08:30 –18:00 daily & Sat 09:00 – 14:00 daily From 1 July: 08:30 – 19:15 daily

Village Green Box Office 2015 FESTIVAL POCKET PLANNER (located in the Steve Biko Building) We will be publishing an update to our Programme, which will be available From 1 July 09:00 – 18:00 daily in Grahamstown throughout the Festival, at all of our Ticket Offices and Information Kiosks. This will contain all information regarding both Main and Fiddlers Green Box Office Fringe performances and events: a daily diary, emergency contacts, and a From 2 July 09:00 to 17:00 daily colour-coded map. This is a must for all festival goers.

Rhodes Theatre Box Office (servicing the Rhodes Theatre and Box Theatre only) From 2 July 09:00 – final performance of the day

Tickets, if still available, may be purchased half an hour prior to performance starting times at all venues on a cash only basis.

A perfect holiday is just around the corner Situated midway between Port Elizabeth and East London, the Fish River Sun is complimented by an 18-hole championship course designed by Gary Player. The Body and Skin Clinic caters for those who need to unwind, offering massages, pedicures and other pampering. Relax as the kids enjoy Kamp Kwena with a supervised entertainment programme. The Hotel’s facilities include 3-star hotel bedrooms, a heated outdoor pool, bar, squash court, Castaways Beach Base Camp and extensive conference facilities. The renowned Saturday Seafood Splash and Champagne Breakfasts are offered every weekend. Take advantage of this unspoiled coastline and enjoy the walking trails, guided nature walks and night drives.

The Fish River Sun is the ultimate holiday destination.

Tel: +27 (0) 40 676 1101 Fax: +27 (0) 40 676 1115 E-mail: [email protected]