Ladies in the limelight
This year's festival will commemorate 60 years since the 1956 Women's March to parliament and will give women from all walks of life a chance to learn, express and be inspired by the arts.
On and off the stage, women will be celebrated in song, dance and word at the The Playhouse Company’s 20th annual South African Women’s Arts Festival running from August 11 till 19.
This year’s festival will commemorate 60 years since the 1956 Women’s March to parliament and will give women from all walks of life a chance to learn, express and be inspired by the arts.
Some of the festival highlights include We Are Still Marching, Blood, Sweat and Nothing; Girls Nite Out Comedy and Thabitha.
We Are Still Marching is a new dance work choreographed by Sunnyboy Motau of Moving Into Dance Mophatong, which explores historical events such as the Women’s March, the bus boycott and the recent mass #FeesMustFall campaign. The dance performance will be in the Playhouse Drama Theatre from August 11 to 13. Tickets cost R30 for school performances and R80 for public performances.
Blood, Sweat and Nothing will be shown in the Playhouse Cellar on August 13 at 6pm and August 14 at 3pm. Written and directed by Xolani Dlongolo and performed by Kholeka Madulini, the show takes us through the story of a female ex-Umkhonto weSizwe operative called Gcinizwe Khumalo who returns to SA, after having lived in exile for 15 years, only to find that the country is not what she thought it would be. This sensitive story is told through powerful monologues, flashbacks and music.
Girls Nite Out Comedy, an all-woman explosion of laughter featuring Mel Jones, Lindzy Msimang, Nina Haste and Shimmy Isaacs, and directed by Monwabisi Grootboom, will be at The Playhouse Theatre on August 13 at 8pm. After the show, festival-goers can continue to have fun at the festival after-party with KZN’s top DJs. Tickets cost between R130 and R150.
For school bookings, contact Dawn on 031-3699407. Any other bookings can be made through Computicket or through the Playhouse Box Office on 031-3699596/9540.
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