28 Sep 12 - 02 Oct 12
Big Concerts has announced that the…
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Big Concerts has announced that the Irish female singing sensation Celtic Woman will perform live in South Africa for the first time as part of their `Believe Tour` at the Big Top Arena, Carnival City Johannesburg on the 28th September 2012 and one show only at the Grand Arena, GrandWest, Cape Town…
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06 Oct 12 - 14 Oct 12
Huisgenoot-Skouspel is Suid-Afrika …
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Huisgenoot-Skouspel is Suid-Afrika se grootste Afrikaanse musiekkonsert en vanjaar `n samekoms van 50 sangers op een verhoog. Dis `n fees van treffers met `n rits bekendes: van Manie Jackson, Kurt Darren, Gerhard Steyn en Snotkop tot Andriette, Karen Zoid, Laurika Rauch en die Flooze. Die aanbieder…
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09 Sep 12
Die jaarlikse nasionale Daniel Mann…
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Die jaarlikse nasionale Daniel Mannekonferensie vind plaas vanaf 7 tot 9 September by Moreletapark Gemeente. By hierdie jaarlikse hoogtepunt vir elke man is David Kinnaman, `n gesogte spreker reg oor die wereld en President van die Barna Foundation, onder andere een van die sprekers. Hierdie jaar se…
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28 Jun 12 - 30 Jun 12
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"Written by Teakshania Chetty collaborating with Genbia Hyla Directed by Thembalethu Professor Nqumako.A button is pressed. "Start"! Gun shots! Pow! Pow! "Go".The trap doors are shut, and interrogations are all that is left when there`s nowhere to hide.Man to man, face to face! Bang! Bang! Bang! The…
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04 Jul 12 - 06 Jul 12
This play transports the audience t…
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This play transports the audience to a world where spirits wander, trees stretch way up to the sky and deep below the soil, and the air is thick with history and heat. A world where ancient rituals have the power to re-unite lovers separated by death.
Communities around the world suffer great loss…
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01 Jul 12 - 03 Jul 12
A re-education camp for myths. A ba…
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A re-education camp for myths. A battery farm for victims. The place where stories go after we stop telling them. This is the world as Persephone, Orpheus and Sisyphus know it. All victims of a brutal system ruled by indifferent gods, they struggle to find meaning and identity in their stories of ab…
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28 Jun 12 - 30 Jun 12
Bye bye world! is a transparent par…
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Bye bye world! is a transparent parable about living today, in which the performers need nothing but themselves to conjur a whole universe. It`s modern storytelling in its purest form.
From the Amsterdam jury: `The performers are complex, fearless and truthful. The staging is simple and meticulou…
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30 Jun 12 - 03 Jul 12
A beautiful, intimate story, takes …
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A beautiful, intimate story, takes the audience on an almost filmic experience as the unlikely relationship between two men evolves from an awkward first encounter to a deep and lasting friendship which neither expects or understands. Sometimes in life friendships choose us. People enter our lives f…
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29 Jun 12 - 01 Jul 12
Faces of Betrayal is a poignant, ne…
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Faces of Betrayal is a poignant, new work-shopped play that explores the lives of young people living in Cape Town through a series of events involving moments of betrayal. The play draws on personal narrative and research on the streets of Cape Town. Through their detailed character observations, t…
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03 Jul 12 - 05 Jul 12
There are two sides to every fence.…
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There are two sides to every fence. As one side protects, the other repels. (If you stay on your side, my side is fine).
Not content with being lines of reference, fences bear witness. Witness to our divisions, to our destinations, our separations and the things we think we control.
Fences strain…
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04 Jul 12 - 07 Jul 12
When a relationship goes wrong, som…
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When a relationship goes wrong, something must happen to the fragments left behind. To the letters, the trinkets, the objects and bits of history shared between two people.
It must be sealed up in a box and stored away.
It must be buried in the backyard, out of sight.
It must be looked at now an…
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28 Jun 12 - 30 Jun 12
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02 Jul 12 - 04 Jul 12
The architect of apartheid, Hendrik…
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The architect of apartheid, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd`s extramarital affair with a black woman produces a bastard child. The mother of anti-apartheid, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, stabs a 14-year-old police informant with a pair of scissors in the neck.
Between law and order, duty and pride, black p…
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28 Jun 12 - 30 Jun 12
The age-old traditions of storytell…
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The age-old traditions of storytelling are meshed with physical theatre and live music on stage to create an intimate revisiting of the incidences of gang violence and ethnic rivalry that took place in the township of Westbury, Johannesburg, in the 1950`s.
The performance is a love-story about vio…
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03 Jul 12 - 05 Jul 12
In a country like South Africa, we …
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In a country like South Africa, we negotiate our way through the various cultures, languages, races and beliefs, but it is often difficult to find a common ground. One thing most of us share is our use of that most inconspicuous, yet highly secretive object: the toilet. Privy aims to explore South A…
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02 Jul 12 - 04 Jul 12
This play deals with the multiple s…
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This play deals with the multiple struggles that young Black women are facing in the post-1994 South Africa. It speaks out against stereotypes, conservative society, religion and oppressive body politics. It questions the contradictions in the so-called land of freedom(s).
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06 Jul 12 - 07 Jul 12
The irony in Relocation is that no …
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The irony in Relocation is that no one goes anywhere. The `relocation` that is taking place is not physical, but psychological. A cultural paradigm shift that is happening in black societies, especially in townships, where the majority of people are not taking advantage of the democracy and equality…
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28 Jun 12 - 02 Jul 12
ReVerse explores the evolution of H…
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ReVerse explores the evolution of Homo sapiens, and the complex interaction between words, mind and body. It is a visual / verbal interpretation of humankind`s ascent, descent and the complex interactions between modern people and their divergent beliefs. The show explores the process of adaptation…
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