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You Can’t be Serious
YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS JOHANNESBURG PRESS RELEASE Fresh from a scintillating Bafunny Bafunny tour, Nik Rabinowitz returns to The Market Theatre for a limited season of his sell out hit-and-run show, You Can’t Be Serious. Apart from satirizing the state of the Rainbow Nation, SA’s only Jewish comic to have been born in a stable examines the plight of Gays and Libyans, Tea Girls, as well as Cape Town’s Great Previously Advantaged Sharks. He also begs the question: “Just because most toilet bowls are white does it mean they are all criminals?” Says Nik of his latest ...
Rhetorical
The Market Theatre, Goethe Institute, Kaaitheater Brussels and Siemens Stiftung presents, Rhetorical by Paul Mpumelelo Grootboom and Aubrey Sekhabi ONE WEEK ONLY! An initiative of the Siemens Stiftung in cooperation with the Kaaitheater (Brussels), the Market Theatre (Johannesburg), Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogota and the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb is proud to present the first series of staged speeches: Rhetorical, scripted by Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom and Aubrey Sekhabi and directed by Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom. Rhetorical is a reminiscence work giving a rhetorical a...
Girl in the Yellow Dress
Market Theatre (Johannesburg), Live Theatre (Newcastle) and the Citizens Theatre (Glasgow) present The Girl in the Yellow Dress 2 NALEDI AWARDS Best New South African Play Best Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role 1 FLEUR du CAP Best Director Back By Popular Demand Written by Craig Higginson Directed by Malcolm Purkey The Girl in the Yellow Dress premiered at the National Grahamstown Arts Festival in 2010 followed by a sold-out seasons at both the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and the Traverse Theatre for th...
Rooms with a voyeuristic view at Hawkins’ HOTEL
Rooms with a voyeuristic view at Hawkins’ HOTEL Expect dance with a fanciful twist when Mark Hawkins’ acclaimed new work HOTEL checks in for a two-week run at the Market Theatre from 27 September to 9 October 2011. Earlier this year, audiences at the 2011 Dance Umbrella witnessed the premiere of this genre-crossing piece, which was commissioned for the festival by Moving into Dance Mophatong (MIDM). Hawkins has since further shaped and developed HOTEL into a more fully rounded state-of-the-art multimedia production for the forthcoming season, which is co-presented by the Market Theatr...
Wynton Marsalis thrils fans @ Joy of Jazz
US legend Marsalis to thrill fans at Joy of Jazz concert FAMED American trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis is sharing memories and music in South Africa. Yesterday, Marsalis talked about his life during a question-and-answer session at Johannesburgs Market Theatre. Later this week, he will perform at the citys annual Joy of Jazz festival. As a trumpeter, Marsalis has won Grammy awards in both the jazz and classical categories. As a composer, 1 I t ( ) i I r ( E ! he was the first jazz artist to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for Blood on the Fields, which explores the themes of slavery and...
