STREET PARADE
Les Grandes Personnes, France & Sogo theatre, South Africa
Les Grandes Personnes was formed in 1998 in Aubervilliers (France) and Boromo (Burkina Faso). In collaboration with a South African team composed of local artists and professionals, the collective will prepare for a giant puppet street parade that will travel across South Africa. To the delight of thousands of South Africans, the family of giants created through this residency will stroll through the Victoria Wharf at the VnA Waterfront.

Victoria Wharf (Starting from Amphitheatre entrance); Starts 2pm; Sat 30 Aug

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A LA CORDE
Les Grandes Personnes, France
French company Les Grandes Personnes presents ‘A la Corde’ . Spectators take part in the different stages of of the hero, Odilon’s life, using their hands and voices, repeating sentences and passing sculptures around. This intimate outdoor show, encourages both young and the old to take part in this wonderful experience of exchange and creativity.

Outside Little Theatre; 2pm; Sun 31 Aug

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IN HIDING
Myer Taub, 4hrs

An interactive treasure hunt on Hididingh Campus curated-performed-concealed by the personas created by

Andrew Lamprecht and Bettina Malcomes and Myer Taub

You can participate at any time by simply picking up a map at The Box Office. (“The clues are traced within the building themselves”):
Outside the Little Theatre: Sat 30th and Sat 6th:10h00-14h00

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SPEAK TENDERNESS

Katarina Vogel, Switzerland- 55min

In Speak Tenderness internationally renowned Swiss Butho dancer and choreographer Katharina Vogel converts the inner architecture of language, thought and emotion into movement and image.

Minimalism, tempo, emotion, breath and sound modulate atmospheric landscapes. The dance appears silently-musical, hypnotizing and emotionally charged in the ‘tango faux’.

Little Theatre: Tues 2nd: 18h00; Wed 3rd : 20h30

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21ST CENTURY ANIMAL

Afrofuturism on the edge of order
Resonance Bazaar - 50min

21st Century Animal is a ritual inscription, created, directed & designed by Julia Raynham, with fragments of art, dance & cinema.

This work describes our bodies’ innate ability to dream, to remix identities, and to transcend cellular memories of violence and boundary violations, arriving into the sensual & sentient spaces of our being human.

Created with James Tayler, Douglas Armstrong and Peet Pienaar, 21st Century Animal is an immersive live performance where juxtapositions propel the audience into moments of augmented reality.

Arena: Fri 5th: 18h00; Sat 6th 21h00

BODYSCAPE
Inzalo Dance and Theatre Company - 1h30min

Bodyscape is contemporary installation art performance piece, the result of some extensive research into how the body works in conjunction with dimensions of spirit and the inner working of the mind. Created by Moeketsi Koena, Brussels trained dancer/choreographer and Koena Moeketsi, director of Blame me blind (Madagascar and Amsterdam) and Solve 4x (Cameroon and Kenya).

Little Theatre: Wed 3rd 18h00; Thurs 4th 20h00; Fri 5th 18h00

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HATCH
Move 1524 - Mamela Nyamza – 40min

Mamela Nyamza is a choreographer and dancer who has worked with the Alvin Ailey Dance Centre in New York as well as the State Dance Company Pretoria. She has also starred in The Lion King and African Footprint. In 2007 she was resident choreographer at Zama. She says of Hatch, ‘It is my life story as a girl-child, woman, mother and wife in the new South Africa. It tackles issues of woman who are supressed by tradition and religion.’

Guest performer: Ananda Fuchs,
Guest choreographers: Ina Wichterich & S’bonakaliso Ndaba,
Under the direction of: Adele Blank

Little Theatre: Thurs 4th 17h00; Fri
5th :20h30, Sat 6th 20h00

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VERY SHORT STORIES OF CREATURES AND THEIR JOURNEY TOWARDS A HOME
Baba Yaga Theatre, Denmark - 60min

Baba Yaga Theatre has performed widely internationally and received the award for the Best Innovative Solo Performance at the PUF Theatre Festival in Croatia. Jori creates a personal theatrical language, inspired by a humorous, and grotesque universe.

“…A hybrid of shadow work, painting, dance, illusion, and storytelling… beautiful and unique. Her physical work and movement is absolutely mindblowing… A festival highlight.” Prague Fringe Festival

Pan Theatre, Paris: “..a physical theatre performance of exceptional virtuosity and emotion…”

Intimate Theatre: Thurs 4th 19h00; Fri 5th 19h00; Sat 6th 20h00

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BREAD
Pieter Van Zyl - 60min

After ten years studying mime corporel in London, Paris and California, Pieter van Zyl brings this fascinating approach to theatre to life with his latest play Bread.

Directed by award-winning Juanita Swanepoel, Bread combines Etienne Decroux-style movement, text ( Breyten Breytenbach, Sheila Cussons) and music, to pay homage to an ancient, universal theme: the wonder of bread.

Intimate Theatre: Tues 2nd 18h00; Wed 3rd: 21h00

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(IN) MEDEA RES

Paper Body Collective – 40min
Created and directed by Aja Marneweck, (In)Medea Res combines the talents of SAMA winning musician Sebastian Voigt, designer Angela Nemov and award winning filmmaker Jacqueline Van Meygaarden to create an extraordinary multimedia performance.

(In) Medea Res follows the mythical story of Leto, a young goddess cast from heaven, and her moving journey through exile. As Leto’s story unfolds we encounter strangers in a strange land, humanity in transition, lost on the peripheries of society. Among gritty realities of seeking, lies a glittering dream of ‘home’. 

Arena: Thurs 4th:21h00

Fri 5th:20h00; Sat 6th 17h00

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PARAPHERNALIA
Cosmos Productions

Paraphernalia is a tale of a man who finds himself stuck in a never-ending cycle of buying, and how this throws his friendship with his trusty office lamp into disarray.

Using a combination of object manipulation, stop-frame animation and a comedie humaine performance style, this physical Orwellian comedy gives glimpses of how we are starting to lose our will as individuals to a larger worldly pressure. Paraphernalia asks the question: how much do we need and how much are we forced to ‘want’ in the modern world? Created and performed by Commonwealth award winner, Jacqueline van Meygaarden and Jacques Lecoq graduates, Andrea van Meygaarden and Daniel Robinson.

Playroom: Wed 3rd:18h00; Thurs 4th: Sat 6th: 20h00

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PICTURES OF YOU
From the Hip: khulumakahle - 65min

Directed by Rob Murray, featuring Liezl de Kock and Dorian Burstein with puppets by Janni Younge and sound by James Webb

A couple’s barren life starts unravelling as he meets the woman of his dreams. His obsession with his dream creature grows blurring the line between dreaming and reality, between sanity and insanity. The claustrophobic atmosphere starts to spin violently out of control.

Quirky, disturbing, and told through a surreal blend of visual imagery and original soundscape, this is “…an emotionally intence experience. Must see, gripping theatre.” Cue

Intimate Theatre: Sun 31st: 17h00 and 19h00

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SECOND CHANCE CANCELLED
MDG –Bloemfontein- 45min

Second chance portrays the life of a young black artist who grew up in the rural countryside. He discovers and develops his fine art skills as he finds harmony in life on the farm. When his rural life is exchanged with township life, he meets new challenges. Mogorotsi becomes the subject of a PhD student’s studies. His naïve perceptions results in disillusionment, but he finds his artistic talent allows him to understand an artist mission…

Playroom: Sun 31st:18h00; Mon 1st:19h00

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SUCKLE
Chameleon Collective - 60mins

Suckle is a collision between man and animal, performer and audience, site and subject. It is an ensemble work, using masks, video projection, object, voice, body and architecture. Suckle is an animal at the breast, a carcass on the highway, the crowd at the scene of violence. It is the creature we carry in us, suppressing its desires. We build cities and roads, fortifying ourselves. Nature is a casualty. What nurtures us when the milk runs dry, when we can’t suckle any longer?

Commerce: Thurs 4th 20h00; Fri 5th 19h00

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UNDER THE STARS, ABOVE THE TREE
Yawazzi - 50min

If you’d never seen the sky, how far would you go to see something that ‘was blue, sometimes?’ Directed by Sanjin Muftic, Under the Stars, Above the Tree takes you where a tree has overgrown the world, and people have forgotten the sky, except as a badly told legend. It’s enough to inspire a boy to leave his family on a quest to see it. Through shadows, puppets and multimedia, this show tells a lyrical story about what we look for… and what we find.

Playroom: Wed 3rd : 21h00; Fri 5th:18h00; Sat 6th 16h00

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SUDDENLY HER LIFE CONFRONTS YOU
Jacqui Singer

Directed by Jacqui Singer, the play explores the domestic space of women and particularly mother daughter relationships. It foregrounds the mundane vocal utterances that conceal the instinctual sounds of the sub conscious. It evokes the sound of the voice used by women when ‘there is no one there to correct them’. The play can be viewed as the interlinking lives of three generations of women.

Playroom: Tues 2nd 17h00; Fri 5th: 21h00; Sat 6th 18h00

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NIGHTLIGHT
Indirect Object

Nightlight is performed by Australian circus director and puppeteer, Beth Macmahon, who has worked and trained widely in physical theatre, mime and puppetry. At fourteen years old, Josh is dying. As his family gather by his bedside, Josh lives inside his dreams and fantasies. His mother’s rituals of love, his uncle’s rages, the shadow of his father, and the caress of his nurse swirl about him between the waves of silent memories.

Intimate Theatre: Tues 2nd :20h00; Wed 3rd:19h00; Fri 5th:21h00

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SWEEPSLAG
Erf[81] Cultural Collective – Cape 45min

Sweepslag is an investigation into white masculinity and identity through carthartic performance. Erf[81]’s work is an enquiry into the transformation of diasporic white masculine identity back into contemporary Affrican society. In Sweepslag we inestigate the current location of this abject performative identity.

A winner of the Spier Contemporary, Erf[81]’s work has become renowned across the country for its hard-hitting and provocative content and striking visual presentation.

Arena: Sat 30th:18h00; Sun 31st:18h00; Tues 2nd:20h00; Wed 3rd:18h00

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HER HONEY-LIKE LIPS
Nkosinathi Gaar – 40min

Some warriors would kill a hundred men in pursuit of a legendary princess. Some handmaidens get caught at the wrong place at the wrong time. Some horses are named after the thundering drums of glorious war. And you never know who might be secretly missing their mother. Her Honey-like Lips –an outrageous comedy about a fabulous fantasy. Very limited seats available

Commerce: Wed 3rd 18h00; Thurs 4th 18h00

 

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ELISE'S ADVENTURES IN CONGOLAND
Sogo Theatre - 50min

Take the long drop with Elise in this fast-paced and surreal comedy!

Written and directed by Janni Younge with Chantal Stanfield, Marty Kintu and Sannie Fox

Elise’s Adventures in Congoland is a satirical show about a young, white Capetonian who gets in touch with her ‘true’ identity and finds herself on a bizarre journey chased by her ideas and fears of Africa.

“Thrilling combination of shadow puppetry, live performance, marionettes and video. Stunning visuals and great acting.” Cue

Arena: Tues 2nd:17h00; Wed 3rd :20h00; Thurs 4th: 20h00; Sat 6th: 19h00

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SILENT SCREAMS
SWATCYP –Swaziland- 45min

Silent Screams is an intriguing story with a lot of Christian and Traditional influence. It exposes the challenges of church policies with regards to the use of condoms as a preventive measure against HIV and AIDS, the African culture of inheriting widows, while addressing the issue of Stigma and Discrimination.

Playroom: Sun 31st:15h00; Mon 1st: 10h00

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THE TRUMPET PLAYER
CAN –Namibia- 40min

The Trumpet Player encourages abstinence and discourages pre-marital sex among the youth by way of three life phases of a woman; as a stylish, hip lady about town, as a pregnant woman and an AIDS infected mother of an infected son. The illness, trauma and pain is delineated through the use of puppets as well as humans and a juxtaposition of the tragic and comic elements in the play.

Intimate Theatre: Fri 5th: 10h00; Sat 6th: 16h00

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7 multi-talented singer-dancers kick ass to the beats of one of South Africa’s top DJs – Dino Moran (Ibiza, Ministry of Sound) – in a highly-styled package of 21st Century Afro-kitsch that will electrify your eyes, ears and bodies on the dance floor. An in-your-face fusion of African and European, urban and traditional, slam poetry and afro-pop, gospel and nightclub. Sell out houses in Berlin, Vienna, Brussels, Bern, Melbourne, Reunion, Harare and Sydney, and direct from Zurich. Sat 6 Sept; Gardens Commercial High (next to Cape Town High, off Hatfield St; 9:30 for 10pm till Midnight; Parking behind Jewish Museum or walk from Little Theatre Complex. R120

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Iqonga is a visual theatre showcase in which artists skilled in various performance media present contemporary work incorporating puppetry, multimedia, live installation, dance, aspects of site-specific performance art and physical theatre. Moving beyond the boundaries of conventional theatre, each of the 8 pieces selected for Iqonga is a Short Form work of approximately 15 minutes in duration, with an emphasis on experimentation and collaboration.

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Captivity
Marika Lelani Williams

The play depicts the psychosis of mounting tension in the psychological dance between the distraught psyche of a trapped mother and the emotional wounds of a son subsumed by vengeance, bitterness and a complete sense of loss.

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Feed that Brute
The Infinity Collective

A women’s guide to wartime survival, Feed That Brute is a surreal feast of horrible household tips and macabre recipes. Slap on a gas mask and sharpen your knives, it’s chemical warfare in this kitchen!

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Inside
Kim Kerfoot

a dance through darkness and text.

            butoh. voice.

                            exploring the unconsciously abandoned.

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This is Me
Nkosinathi Mgweba

“apartheid and the history of south africa. xenophobia after 1994. the future of AFRICA!”

 

 

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OHP2
Milton Schorr

What would happen if two men insisted on pretending, for a short period of time believing, that they were babies? What capacity would their actions have to move an audience?

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Still Moving
Michael Inglis

Objects, through their use in everyday have become heavy with the memories of lives. Still Moving is set in the nostalgic days when objects moved, - before the weight of experience and memory had slowed them into stillness.

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Inkosazana
Cindy Mkaza & Leila Anderson

“She is... iNkosazana

Always a wife. Always a widow. Always a mother. Always a bride. Her body is our history. Her choice is our future. What kind of husband will she marry next husband?”

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Last Day of the Saplings
Juliet Jenkin

Last Day of The Saplings is a story with no words and many pictures told with two bodies and an invisible body of water. The piece seeks to create narrative and meaning through purely image-based means, with meaning being the picture, and pictures being the words.

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BOOKING INFORMATION

TICKETS COMPUTICKET 083 915 8000
Adult Festival
Adults R48
Discounts R38
House of the Holy Afro: R120

Family Festival
Adults R35
Children R35

Moving Things
All films free, pre-booking essential

Multipass R130.00
(Any 4 shows, excluding House of Holy Afro Party)

Group Discounts 076 848 9560
Adults: R30
Teachers: R20
Learners (Groups of 10 or more)R20
Learners (Groups of 30 or more)R15

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