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BUZZA weekly supplement of the Market Theatre Foundation

21 - 27 Nov

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ProdUctioNs ProdUctioNsJOHNNY BOSKAK IS FEELING FUNNY

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

Where does Johnny Boskak fit in the new South Africa? Is he a white trash dinosaur? Or the last cowboy hero in boots and blue jeans? What we know is that he’s on the road, looking for love,

redemption, an AK47 and the quickest way out of Secunda…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.Buy 4 Tickets @ R95.00 each and receive 2 comps!

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

“Tumi Morake and Vanessa Frost fearlessly weigh in on the subject of sex and sex toys, and they do so with a level of understanding, sophistication and professionalism rarely seen in this relatively new and thrilling genre. Tease will titillate for sure. This show is flippin’ brilliant for sure; My girls must see this” - LAK (Cue)

IN A wOrLD FULL OF BUttErFLIES, It tAKES BALLS tO BE A cAtErpILLAr… SOME tHOUGHtS ON FALLING...2 NIGHtS ONLY!VENUEJohn KaniDAtES6 - 7 December

Robyn Orlin, nicknamed in South Africa “a permanent irritation”, is a controversial and provocative artist well known for reflecting the complex realities in this country. In her unique style of choreography, she integrates diverse media (text, video, plastic arts) and creates a most innovative theatrical reality.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

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SIGNAtUrES

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.

ProdUctioNswHEN 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

ProdUctioNszwAKALA FEStIVAL 2016

VENUEThe Ramoloa Makhene TheatreDAtES6 - 11 December

MAStErcLASS From 09:00 to 11:30. Facilitated by the two of South Africa’s most prominent theatrical personalities Des and Dawn Lindberg.

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

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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

VENUEThe Mannie ManimDAtEFriday, 25 NovembertIME08h30

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,” said Dr. Seuss. “It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”

Don’t miss the next creative mornings with performance artist and 2013 Standard Bank young Artist Anthea Moys talking fantasy.

creative MorNiNgs

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James Ngcobo was recently in the U.K to work with Green door owned by Idris Elba and another company called Bob & Co to be part of a workshop devising a musical called Tree. Tree is a story set in Hackney London and Johannesburg, Theo and Nandi who are half brother and sister struggle to connect. Their journey begins; rebuilding their family tree.

Whilst in London finalized the tour of the Suitcase with Hull Truck Theatre. This comes after two years of negotiations with Hull theatre.

Ngcobo said “one of his passions as artistic as director is to create international linkages with Theatres that share the same DNA with The Market Theatre in storytelling.”

iNterNatioNal liNks

James Ngcobo & Idris Elba

cELEBrAtING MtF EMpLOYEESFloyd Dlamini, started off his theatre career as a cleaner in November 2001 at the Windybrow Theatre. Since moving to the Market Theatre he has committedly acquired new skills while working backstage to support the Theatre’s technical

services and has been promoted to Technical Crew. This year marks the 15th year in his theatre career.

Floyd Dlamini

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.

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The Market Theatre Laboratory students participated at the Performance Power event in Joubert park.

The students had fun signing people up onto the MTF database.

tHE MArKEt tHEAtrE LABOrAtOrY StUDENtS At tHE

pErFOrMANcE pOwEr EVENtlaBoratorY

DAtE & tIME MODULE tEAcHEr prESENtAtION21 November at 13:00

Singing Tebogo Moloto Students have each chosen a song suited to their voices, and must perform it, either acapella, with a back track, or accompanied by back-up singers.

23 November at 14:30

Voice and theatre in context

Alex Halligey For Voice, the students will present self-created monologues developed from interviews with people on the street in Newtown. For Theatre in Context, they will be practising ‘rasaboxes’, using text from The Mahbharata. An Indian theatre inspired exercise, rasaboxes opens up the play between the nine ‘rasas’, moods/flavours/emotions, that are at the core of all classical Indian performance traditions.

24 November at 15:00

Acting/Directing and Movement

Monageng ‘Vice’ Motshabi and Teresa phuti Mojela

For Acting/Directing, the students will present scenes from plays including Hallelujah by Xoli Norman, Interracial by paul Grootboom and Aubrey Sekgabi, The pen by Monde Myephu and phokobye Le Ntja by Kgafela Magagodi. The scenes are directed by some of the students in the class. For Movement, the students are presenting an ensemble piece exploring gender and power, choreographed collectively.

25 November at 11:00

Mime and physical theatre

Jaques De Silva The students have created duets exploring relationship and space through various creative exercises.

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Dear patrons,

please note that the Market Theatres’ ticketing system will change to Webtickets from the 15th November 2016.

All our booking channels will remain the same, you can book tickets via www.markettheatre.co.za or purchase tickets at our box office.

The box office operations are as follows: Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 20:15 or you can purchase your ticket at any pick and pay outlet.

tOKYO SExwALE At ‘SUDDENLY tHE StOrM’Suddenyly the Storm is produced by the Market Theatre and presented in association at the Auto & General Theatre on the Square in Sandton. Tokyo Sexwale attended the theatre and had this to say about the production ‘Every young person in South Africa should see this show!’

DIpLOMAtIc VISIt Ambassador Marisa Gerards and diplomat Jan Huesken of the Netherlands Embassy in South Africa visited the Market Theatre last week.

Jan Huesken (left) & Marisa Gerards (right) at the Market Theatre

weBticketsrEVISED wHItE pApEr ON ArtS & cULtUrEThe Department of Arts & Culture held a conference for the arts sector to review the proposals in the Revised White paper on Arts & Culture. The Market Theatre Foundation was represented at the conference by Kwanele Gumbi (MTF Council chairperson, Ismail Mahomed (CEO) and Lekgetho Makola (Market photo Workshop head)

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FoUNdatioN

For more information about the Market Theatre

Foundation, please visit www.markettheatre.co.za

Telephone : 011 832 1641

56 Margaret Mcingana Str, Newtown Johannesburg