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BUZZA weekly supplement of the Market Theatre Foundation

28 Nov - 4 Dec

Scene from In A World Full Of Butterflies, It Takes Balls To Be A Caterpillar… Some Thoughts On Falling…

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ProDUctioNs ProDUctioNsJOHNNY BOSKAK IS FEELING FUNNY

VENUEBarney Simon DAtES16 November - 4 DecembertIMETue - Sat 20:15Sun 15:15

Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny is a powerful play from the sharp satirical pen of Greig Coetzee, written in rhyming couplets rapped out by his anti-hero Johnny. The words – that feel more like lyrics – will amuse, amaze and entertain you as this dispossessed working-class white South African sets off on a reckless adventure. The fast-paced show blends physical theatre with memorable storytelling as Johnny romps through life and through dodgy bars, encounters with gangsters and falls for a chick as bad-assed as himself in this play of adventure meets social commentary.

Buy 4 Tickets @ R95.00 each and receive 2 comps!

tEASE

VENUEMannie ManimDAtES16 November - 4 DecembertIMEThu - Sat 20:15Sun 15:00

Set in their suburban hair salon, Tease! is an honest comedy in which Vanessa Frost and Tumi Morake play best friends Eva and Neo, stylists and ‘therapists’ to many a regular client, offering the audience a glimpse into the familiar

world of client-stylist relations: a veritable stream of conversation, ‘skinner’ and agony aunt-style relationship advice.

In an unexpected personal and professional funk, Eva and Neo embark on a journey of self-discovery. Armed with intimate client knowledge and a growing understanding of what women (and men) want – and need – these intrepid Tease! stylists launch a quiet, backroom business selling toys… of the adult persuasion.

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IN A wOrLD FULL OF BUttErFLIES, It tAKES BALLS tO BE A cAtErpILLAr… SOME tHOUGHtS ON FALLING...

2 NIGHtS ONLY!VENUEJohn KaniDAtES6 - 7 December

In A World Full Of Butterflies, It Takes Balls To Be A Caterpillar… Some Thoughts On Falling… is a title as long and evocative as a poem on which it is delightful to ride and dream about. This is the name of Robyn Orlin’s new piece, performed by Elizabeth Bakambamba twanbe and Éric Languet. Once faced with dancers’ refusal to perform in front of the image of the man falling off the twin towers on 9/11, Robyn Orlin questioned the emotional power of images and the limits of representation, invokes the myth of Icarus and reflecting on the lives of Nina Simone and Billie Holiday.

Photo: © Thomas Lachambre

ProDUctioNsSIGNAtUrES

VENUEJohn KaniDAtES2 - 4 DecembertIMEFri - Sat 20:00Sun 15:00

Signatures, the theme for this year’s Vuyani Week programme, will showcase the artistic signatures of seasoned dancers and their outreach protégés. Vuyani Dance Theatre’s annual showcase of professional, emerging and youthful talent. This year will be bigger and bolder than before, thanks to a grant from the National Lotteries Commission.

This year’s jam-packed Signatures season brings together dance trainees, the company’s dancers and the learners they mentor at various local schools. Artists with distinct personal creative signatures will reimagine historical works to be performed by a new generation of dancers at these family-friendly performances.The programme features Rhythm Colour, one of Maqoma’s “signature” works from 2002 themed around the 1976 Soweto student uprisings. This evocative piece was re-mounted earlier this year at the Soweto Theatre to mark 40 years since the landmark protests, with a new generation of Vuyani dancers taking the baton, and will be performed during Vuyani Week by outreach protégés.

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wHEN SwALLOwS crY

VENUEMannie ManimDAtES13 January - 5 February 2017tIMETue - Sat 20:15Sun 15:15

When Swallows Cry is a trilogy of playlets that explores the inequities and layered complexities of contemporary global mobility, particularly from African perspectives. Once forced to “migrate” as slaves, Africans are now among the world’s least attractive migrants in the wealthy economies of the world, many built – not insubstantially - on African labour and mineral resources. Three actors each play different characters in three stories, set on three continents; the stories are particular to the characters, the themes are universal.

When Swallows Cry is a new work by Mike van Graan, invited by Ibsen International, a Norwegian Theatre Company, as one of eight playwrights from around the world to produce new works on the theme of migration.

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exhiBitioN40 ActOrS cAMpAIGN

VENUEMannie Manim FoyerDAtEUntil December 2016

In June the Artistic Director James Ngcobo set on a campaign to celebrate 40 actors that have graced our stages in the last forty years. This culminated in a photographic exhibition featuring some of the countries cream of the crop actors & actresses. The beautiful images were captured by Brett Rubin, the exhibition is up at the Mannie Manim foyer and will go down in December 2016.

From Top Left: Behind the scenes with Busi Zokufa, Lerato Mvelase, Dorothy Ann Gould, Moshidi Motshegwa, Fiona Ramsay, Neil McCarthy

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festivalzwAKALA FEStIVAL 2016

VENUEThe Ramoloa Makhene TheatreDAtES6 - 11 December

The Zwakala Festival is aimed at giving emerging community theatre companies a prominent platform to showcase their talents. The Zwakala Festival is open to the public.

START TIME: PLAY: AREA:12:00-13:00 OPENING CEREMONY13:00-14:00 From the land of Katutura Tshepisong16:00-17:00 Conversations with My Self Daveyton18:00-19:00 Pelo Munsieville

Tuesday 06 December 2016

START TIME: PLAY: AREA:11:00-12:00 The Monotonous Orlando12:30-13:30 Solitary Confinement Arcadia14:00-15:00 The Cleaners Ormonde14:00-15:00 CLOSING CEREMONY

Sunday 11 December 2016

START TIME: PLAY: AREA:

12:00-13:00 Conversation with My Self Daveyton12:00-13:00 Sleepless Misery Orange Farm16:00-17:00 Pelo Munsieville17:30-18:30 Good Morning Propaganda Thembisa19:00-20:00 Continuous Pain Zola

Saturday 10 December 2016

START TIME: PLAY: AREA:12:00-13:00 Sleepless Misery Orange Farm14:00-15:00 Continuous Pain Zola16:00-17:00 Solitary Confinement Arcadia

Thursday 08 December 2016

START TIME: PLAY: AREA:12:00-13:00 The Monotonous Orlando14:00-15:00 From the land of Katutura Tshepisong16:00-17:00 Lost Hillbrow

Friday 09 December 2016

START TIME: PLAY: AREA:12:00-13:00 The Cleaners Ormonde14:00-15:00 Lost Hillborw16:00-17:00 Good Morning Propaganda Thembisa

Wednesday 07 December 2017

rAMOLAO MAKHENE StOrYtELLING FEStIVAL OpENING (27 NOVEMBER 2016)

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App (ADVANCED pROGRAMME IN phOTOGRAphy) StUDENt ExHIBItION:

The Market photo Workshop opened the APP student Exhibition on the 16 November 2016. Follow our social media handle #App_ Disruptor for updates.

Student Thulani Kubeka on his work; “This body of work is an exploration of my seasonal affective disorder, which is a type of depression that occurswithin different seasons and with

Market photo workshopEntrance from Bus Factory parking2 Helen Joseph Street (formerly president Str)Newtown

me it occurs each year during winter. Around this time my focus starts fading, most of the time I’m there in the physical but mentally I’m fatigued. I have a fear of rejection, anxiety, insomnia and social withdrawals.

With this body of work I aim to visually interpret and explore my emotional state and challenges that lead me to constant vulnerability and disconnection from everything else.”

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APP Studen Exhibition: Disruption

oPeNiNg Night exhiBitioN: DISrUptION:

Disruption the latest exhibition to celebrate the Advanced programme in photography Class of 2016, was opened on 16 November. The exhibition is currently running at The Market photo Workshop Gallery in Newtown until 7 December 2016. The work will thereafter be relocated to the photo Workshop’s new premises, Gallery 1989 located on Margaret Mcingana Street, Newtown.

Above: Distruption Opening Night • Photographs: @ Siphosihle Mkhwanazi

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Shamsaan (‘two suns’ in Arabic): is a collaborative calendar project that has integrated palestinian children’s original artworks, photographic portraits, and life stories. It is intended to foster a deeper understanding of the palestinian condition and to garner a greater degree of international solidarity.

Through children’s eyes, one is able to see an alternative vision of the everyday that is brutal and filled with hardship and, simultaneously, joyous and bursting with dreams of the future, sunlight and ocean swims.

caleNDar Project

Thapelo Mokgosi is representing the Market Theatre at the South Africa- Russia Cultural season. Thapelo who is Market Theatre’s production Manager and Lighting Designer said “I am thrilled to be part of the programme, to share my skills and knowledge but also to learn from my Russian counterparts.”

iNterNatioNal travels

Thapelo Mokgosi

BUILDING BrIDGESThe Market Theatre Foundation and the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) will soon be signing a memorandum of understanding.

Watch this space for futher details.

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The Market Theatre Laboratory’s 1st year Class of 2016 has the pleasure of inviting you to our graduation and performance of Hani: the Legacy.

Date: Saturday, 3 December 2016Venue: Ramolao Makhene Theatre (The Market Theatre Laboratory @ The Bus Factory)Arrival: 10:30programme Begins: 11:00rSVp to Thandeka Nheke 011 832 7498thandeka@marketlab.co.zaBy 30 November 2016

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free state graDUatioNOn the 10th of November 2016 the Market photo Workshop concluded the Free State photography Training project, which was in partnership with Free State Department of Sports, Culture and Recreation. At this event, participants were awarded certificates for completion of the programme.

We are grateful to the team lead by Bekie Ntini who managed the project, as well as our trainers, Mpho Khwezi, Akona Kenqu, Loyiso Oldjohn and Musa Nxumalo.

Ptotographs: @ Mpho Khwezi

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For more information about the Market Theatre

Foundation, please visit www.markettheatre.co.za

Telephone : 011 832 1641

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