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A celebrated and much loved South African classic
The Market Theatre, by arrangement with DARLO (Pty) Limited, presents Woza Albert ! between 10 January and 5 February next year. Written by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon, the production stars Mncedisi Shabangu and Hamilton Dlamini, and is directed by Prince Lamla. Woza Albert! is one of the plays for which South African theatre is best known internationally. Its physical style of storytelling was to inspire and influence theatre companies around the v world, and it is one of the best examples that define South African theatre in all its vibrancy, innovation and humanity. This c...
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Multitalented Siyabonga branches out
Multitalented Siyabonga branches out Zintle Makeng SOME viewers may know him best for his role as Cassius in the SABC1 drama series, A Place Called Home. Others may know him as Rhythm Citys kwaito star and good kid gone wrong, Boboza. but how many of you knew that Siyabonga Radebe is also a comedian? Before you get ideas. Radebe is not planning a one-man stand-up comedy show. The local actor is. however, getting ready for a one-man comedy show called Smiles and Cries at the Market Theatre this month. It is said that comedy is where this creative minds passion really lies and that thanks to hi...
Bright Days for Girl in the Yellow Dress
Bright days for Girl in the Yellow Dress Zintle Makeng THE Girl in the Yellow Dress has gone halfway around the world and after playing to sold-out theatres both here and abroad, its come full circle to play at Newtowns Market Theatre for a back by popular demand rerun. Written by Craig Higginson and directed by Malcolm Purkey, for an unassuming title this local play is positively consuming, and has been critically well received. The play has won not one but two Naledi awards for best new South African play and best performance by an actress in a leading role. It is also this years winner of...
Hotel reviews
DON’T MISS HOTEL AT THE MARKET THEATRE – ONLY UNTIL 9TH OCTOBER! Some extracts of what the press wrote: Check in to Hotel - Gayle Edmunds: City Press. 2nd October 2010 Hotel is crazy absurd and sublime, and it was love at first step for me… Mark Hawkins’ Hotel chased away any fears of “not getting it” within minutes as the manic ringmaster and his leering assistant welcomed me – and the rest of the audience to “the hotel of the mind”. Using the disciplined, incredibly flexible and perfectly honed bodies of the dancers from Moving into Dance Mophatong the mind-ben...
Check in to Hotel
Check in to Hotel Gayle Edmunds Hotel is crazy, absurd and sublime, and it was love at first step for me. I am always apprehensive about dance. I love it, but I don’t know as much about it as I’d like to. Mark Hawkins’ Hotel, commissioned for this year’s Dance Umbrella, chased away any fears of “not getting it” within minutes as the manic ringmaster and his leering assistant welcomed me – and the rest of the audience – to “the hotel of the mind”. Using the disciplined, incredibly flexible and perfectly honed bodies of the dancers from Moving Into Dance Mophatong – So...
Good script, great acting
Death of a Colonialist is a remarkable return to the theatre from award-winning playwright Greg Latter. Jamie Bartlett also does justice to the larger-than-life Harry. THERE was a “bloody” colonialist on the stage of the Market Theatre last night, brandishing an assegai. His torso and head were covered in red ochre, making him a rather fearsome-looking Xhosa warrior. Jamie Bartlett plays Harold Smith, a spirited and blustering history teacher, in Death of a Colonialist, a tragicomedy about many things: our often bloody colonial history, loyalty, selfishness, fear and disillusionment, inf...
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