Theatre Season is open
BRAAMFONTEIN – The South African Theatre Season is headed back to The Wits Theatre until 9 April.
This year, the South African Theatre Season presented by Drama for Life, has partnered with Wits Theatre, Wits School of Arts and Wits Counselling, Careers and Development Unit to bring audiences the thought-provoking theme of Forgotten Futures.
SA Season Director, Benjamin Bell stated that the season provides a serious platform to discuss, rebuild and evaluate contemporary youth realities while also providing opportunities for meaningful cross-generational talks. “Have we forgotten about the people who will determine the shape and nature of the future? Have the South African elders failed the youth? With movements like #FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall, we are beginning to see young people tackle this problem head-on and ask pertinent questions about the failure of the transformation agenda.”
The season takes the form of live theatre performances, film screenings, live music and performance poetry by some of the country’s emerging young voices within the arts. Bell continued to say that they have created a space where people can speak openly about change as well as be the forerunners of thought and practice with regard to youth development.
There will be a number of performances spanning the four days in which the season will take place, including Nortasuna (Identity), a work-shopped theatrical performance directed by Lidija Marelic, who is hot off her recent Naledi nomination for Cheers to Sarajevo. The performance explores the notions of South African identity.
Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga teams up with the talented actress Ayanda Seoka to bring audiences iMBOKODO (The Rock), which begs the question, ‘who wants to be a feminist?’. Benjamin Bell also dons the theatre-maker hat, collaborating with actors Lebogang Mphahlele and Thulani Mtsweni to create Kasi Stories: Stories not Often Told, which asks what it means to be a South African black man.
Other performances include Waiting for God, screenings of two acclaimed South Africa films, Thina Sobabili: The Two of Us and While You Weren’t Looking.
The South African Theatre Season, Forgotten Futures, runs from 6 to 9 April at the Wits Theatre. For more information on which performance take place on what days, visit www.dramaforlife.co.za
Tickets cost R45 online. Students and pensioners only pay R30 online. Tickets are R50 at the box office and students and pensioners only pay R40 at the box office.
Details: www.webtickets.co.za
