
Photo Essay | So, how was Fest?
Makers and lovers of theatre reflect on the experience of this year’s National Arts Festival, which was pushed online by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown restrictions.
Makers and lovers of theatre reflect on the experience of this year’s National Arts Festival, which was pushed online by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown restrictions.
The past, present and future collided powerfully at this year’s National Arts Festival, which bore the signature of our times as subjugated voices took centre stage.
Near Makhanda is a cricket pitch with claims to being the oldest in the country. Watered by blood and trauma, rolled with frontier nostalgia and contemporary paranoia, how does it play?
As the National Arts Festival goes virtual during the Covid-19 crisis, its community of artists is entering a daunting new world.
Actor, director and activist Ma’Mpangela wanted to give back to her hometown of New Brighton and sow the seeds of theatre, so the legacy of South African stories could flourish.
The artist’s new exhibition, ‘This is a song for…’, interrupts song recordings in the manner of a stuck record to jar audience members into experiencing how rape continues to interject itself into the lives of eight women.
The National Arts Festival Fringe has always showcased innovative and experimental work, but new artists in particular are struggling to earn or losing money on their productions.
Attempts to stave off economic decline and keep the festival globally competitive have meant constant change. This restaurant, however, is a welcome constant for artists and audiences.
The winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for theatre brings home the need to keep remembering a past that displaced and dispossessed.
Standard Bank’s 2019 Young Artist winner for dance, Kitty Phetla, doesn’t believe in the glory of kudos. It’s all about mastering the craft, she says.