THE Playhouse Company’s annual New Stages Festival traditionally affords theatre goers the opportunity of seeing a fresh crop of cutting edge stage-works that are making waves on the national performing arts circuit.
One of the remarkable productions to be seen on this year’s New Stages roster in May is the multiple award-winning one-hander, Tswalo.
The product of hot-property creative team Billy Langa (writer, performer), Mahlatsi Mokgonyana (director, lighting designer) and John Withers (composer, sound
designer), Tswalo is described by its creators as ‘a body of poems constructed to fragment a narrative that is carried in both physicality and voice.
It is placed in a timeless space of existence, which explores the primary themes of being, chaos and beauty, blood and birth, love and war in the same frame.’
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Schools performances of the acclaimed production, which plays for 55 minutes without an interval, will be held from Wednesday, 8 to Friday, 10 May, at 10am. Tickets cost R30 per learner booked through coordinator@playhousecompany.com or by calling 031 369 9407.
Public performances are on Thursday, 9 and Friday, 10 at 7pm, and Saturday, 11 May at 2pm and 7pm. Book through Computicket telephonically on 0861 915 8000, online at www.computicket.com, or call Playhouse Box Office 031-369 9540/369 9596 (office hours).
People who buy a ticket to New Stages will get a free 30 minute massage.
WIN: Four lucky readers can each win a pair of double tickets to see enjoy this production during the Friday show. The show will start at 7pm at the Drama Theatre, Age Restriction is 13. To enter, simply fill in the competition form below and click submit. Competition closes at midnight on Thursday, 9 May. Winners will notified telephonically.
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