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Accidental career grew on Nomvula
LIGHTING NOW HER FORTE IT WAS not her first choice as a career, but when Nomvula Molepo was offered an internship to study lighting design she was determined to make her mark in the male-dominated field. Molepo, 37, of Alexandra township in Gauteng, wanted to be a social worker, but her mother could not afford to send her to varsity. Molepo, says though she is shy she has always been fascinated by the performing arts. “I used to act when I was young, but I was shy and I would not have been able to handle fame,” she says. “When my mother could not afford university fees after ...
Market Theatre Laboratory congratulates Prince Lamla
The Market Theatre Laboratory is very proud to congratulate one of our graduates – Prince Lamla for the achievement in winning the Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year Award for Theatre. Since graduating from the 2 year programme in 2002, he has grown quietly from strength to strength. Prince’s continued involvement with developing theatre practitioners is a powerful testament to his determination to nurture the future of South African Theatre. We wish him all the best in his upcoming adventures. Dan Robbertse Education Officer Market Theatre Laboratory
TameTimes talks Delirium
Deliriously definite By Eddie Kok On 22 August members of the production team of tame TIMES were fortunate enough to attend a performance of Ariel Dorfman’s Delirium at the Market Theatre. As can always be expected of South African theatre, the décor, casting, choreography and the performance in general was executed to the minutest of perfection. Delirium encapsulates the strife of nationalistic and ethnic divides in a world caught in a World War II-esque conflict between two nations which are ethnically dissimilar. After decades of an apparently ad infinitum war, the conflicting pa...
Antjie Krog: the woman behind Antjie in Berlin
Antjie Krog was born in the Orange Free State in 1952. She completed her BA degree at the University of the Orange Free State, her Masters degree at the University of Pretoria and a teachers diploma at the University of South Africa (all cum laude) She conducted workshops for the South African Congress of Writers in rural areas and worked closely with the Poetry School at Bloemfontein as well as the Poetry Laboratory at the University of Stellenbosch. Antjie Krog has been awarded numerous prizes for her works, including the Eugene Marais prize for the most promising young writer, Rapport prize...
Little Foot Cast Biogs
Writer’s Note Little Foot was commissioned by the National Theatre in London for the Connections Festival 2012. Ten plays are commissioned annually for this festival and the plays are then given to around two hundred schools and youth theatres in Britain. The best production of each of the ten plays is then presented at the National Theatre over a week. There were twenty-five highly acclaimed productions of Little Foot - and I was fortunate enough to see the South Lancashire production in June at the Cottesloe Theatre a few weeks ago. At the Market Theatre, we have done productions li...
Woza Albert’s Director reveals all
Article By Prince Lamla I was born in Pietermaritzburg. Then few years later we relocated to Qwaqwa in the Free State. I trained at the Market Theatre Laboratory in 2001 and 2002. After I’ve graduated at the Lab, I wanted to be an actor. I found an agent, went to auditions, found auditions very boring and full of false hope. I felt I was wasting my time. I remembered that the reason why I went to train at the Lab was to learn as much as I can and then go back home to plough back to my community. But I felt I was not ready yet. I thought about fieldworking at the Lab, approached the L...
