Schools festival coming to joburg theatre these holidays
BRAAMFONTEIN – This year's Joburg Theatre Schools Setworks Festival is set to run from 23 April to 5 May at the Joburg Theatre and feature two acclaimed productions.
BRAAMFONTEIN – A first-ever Joburg Theatre Schools Setworks Festival will see with two exciting productions, Sophiatown and Itsoseng take place at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein.
According to Makhaola Ndebele, artistic director for Joburg City Theatres, school learners stand to benefit a great deal as both stories are part of the current high school setwork curriculum. “The shows are also open to the general public with a special double-bill price for Saturdays at R200, as we believe that both Sophiatown and Itsoseng are important to South African’s experience as a whole.
“Audiences will be treated to a back-to-back theatre experience to kick-start their weekend as the first show starts at 6 pm and the second one at 8 pm.”
Joburg City Theatres presents Sophiatown in partnership with The South African State Theatre. It has been revived with a fresh and young cast to resonate with today’s audiences and includes the timeless kofifi-style of music, which made the original production so famous.
It tells the extraordinary original story of journalists who set up a house together and advertise for an additional housemate to live with them. Despite the apartheid legislation of those days, they get permission for a white Jewish woman to move in when she turns up with a suitcase on their doorstep.
Another gripping story about a radical time in South Africa’s more recent past is Itsoseng is about a man whose hope of a new life is crushed by the realities of a corrupt system.
Both Itsoseng and Sophiatown will run concurrently from 23 April to 5 May.
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