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The Market Theatre’s Kippies Fringe Programme Returns With Bold, Urgent Storytelling
26 Jun - 6 Dec 2025
Productions will start running from June through to December 2025, offering artistic vision that platforms storytelling and artistic expression that refuses to play it safe. Audiences will be treated to musical and theatrical performances, alongside the programming of cultural provocations with the power to shift the stage and spark change
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TAC Creative Mastery Lab with Nozuko Ntshangase
01 Nov 2025
Master Your Flow – Where Healing Meets Artistry
Join Nozuko Ntshangase for a transformative full-day workshop blending healing practices, interactive exercises, and self-mastery tools. A Creative Mastery Lab experience by The Art Cave, designed to help actors, writers, directors, and creatives reconnect, grow, and create from a place of flow.
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It’s time to cheat on your barber as Barber Shop opens in Johannesburg
6-30 Nov 2025
All men will be free this November to cheat on their barber and never regret it, as The Market Theatre ends the year with staging the renowned “Barber Shop Chronicles” for the first time on African soil. Brilliantly written by Nigerian-born British playwright, Inua Ellams, the international-hit play is directed by Sibusiso Mamba.
The play chronicles six barbershops across the cities of Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra as well as London. It’s an insightful exploration of masculinity, vulnerability and connection. Ellams explains, “The narrative unfolds over a single day, connecting the lives and stories of African men. These barbershops serve as sanctuaries where men gather not just for haircuts but for camaraderie, debate and solace, exploring themes of identity, fatherhood, history, relationships, culture, race and masculinity.
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TAC Creative Mastery Lab
8 Nov 2025
Embody Your Characters – Voice, Body & Signature
The Art Cave Presents: Creative Mastery Lab, featuring Menzi Mbuli
Join award-winning Actor,Director,An All rounder Theatre Maker and Producer Menzi Mbuli for a hands-on workshop exploring body, voice, and unique character signatures. Strengthen your craft, bring characters to life, and deepen your performance skills.
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Kaza Kamba Pan African Theatre Festival Returns to The Market for its 2nd iteration
06-09 Nov 2025
The Market Theatre and mehlo-maya (eye-to-the-sun) have once again partnered for the four-day festival of theatre, music, workshops, film screenings and talks, curated by Bobby Rodwell and Lesego Rampolokeng. This dynamic new festival, which takes place from 06 – 09 November 2025, brings together the arts and the political discourse.
The festival features seven Southern African countries, making it a very critical cross-border initiative aimed at strengthening ties between countries. Again, it gives audiences an opportunity to immerse themselves in the stories of our sub-region.
upcoming Event
Afropocalypse
19 Nov - 07 Dec 2025
Afropocalypse is a new South African production, directed by Daniel Buckland and which was first performed by The Market Theatre Laboratory students as part of their First-Year production module. In their final year of study,2025, the Lab students reworked the production and travelled with it to the National Arts Festival, where they won a GOLD Standard Bank Ovation Award.
