WHAT'S ON – Theatre
The Miser
Long Street Nights
Skierlik
Mies Julie
Solomon and Marion
My Name is Rachel Corrie
Sadako
The Baxter Theatre Centre and Fortune Cookie Company, in association with the Market Theatre, present
THE MISER
8–25 May (Flipside)
A deliciously mean comedy directed by Sylvaine Strike
A penny-pinching wart of a father. Oppressed lovers. Nimble servants. A cunning plan ...
Lionel Newton plays Harpagon: miser, demagogue and a pulsating boil on the beaten posterior of his panic-stricken household, ruling over his roost with calculated avarice. His offspring, Cléante and Elise, wish to marry. Will Harpagon approve of their choices despite the foul smells of poverty afoot? Or will his escalating paranoia snuff out their hopes of happiness once and for all?
The Ensemble: Patricia Boyer, Atandwa Kani, Mpho Osei Tutu, Jason Kennett, Kate Liquorish, William Harding, Motlatji Ditodi
"The clockwork precision of every movement and gesture in this production is a wonderful foil to the sharpness of Molière's language and thinking." – William Kentridge
"Miss Molière's The Miser, and you are sacrificing the South African production of the year. Any year." – Adrienne Sichel, The Star
Watch a short excerpt on YouTube.
Dates and Times:
Previews on 8 and 9 May at 20:00
Opens on 10 May at 20:00
Thereafter Monday to Saturday at 20:00
Matinee at 14:00 on Thursday 23 May
Prices:
Previews and matinee R110
Monday–Thursday R130
Friday and Saturday R150
Discounts:
Students, senior citizens and block bookings of 10 or more R100 (Monday–Thursday only)
Student special: Pay R45 on production of any valid student card at the Baxter box office or Computicket outlets for a ticket, a drink and a samoosa (8–18 May only)
2-show combo: Buy tickets for both The Miser and Long Street Nights for only R200 (Monday–Thursday only until 16 May)
Book online through Computicket.
For discounted block bookings, charities, corporate bookings and fundraisers please contact Sharon Ward on 021 680 3962, e-mail sharon.ward@uct.ac.za, or Carmen Kearns on 021 680 3993, e-mail carmen.kearns@uct.ac.za
As part of the France–South Africa Seasons 2012–2013. With the support of the French Institute of South Africa and the Alliance Française.
The Baxter Theatre Centre presents
LONG STREET NIGHTS
8 May – 1 June (Golden Arrow Studio)
Workshopped by Nicky Rebelo and the cast
Directed by Nicky Rebelo
Cast: Thami Mbongo, Thando Doni, Riana Alfreds, Daneel van der Walt, Natasha Dryden, Antonio Fisher
Nicky Rebelo and his cast of six actors from diversified cultural backgrounds have spent two weeks hanging out in Long Street until the early hours of the morning to explore the underbelly and vibrant, pulsating life of the street in order to create a theatre play in the style made famous by the late Barney Simon, co-founder and artistic director of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg from the late 1970s to late 1980s, with productions like Cincinnati, Black Dog, Inj'emnjama, Score Me the Ages, Born in the RSA and Outers, which Barney created together with Nicky in 1985. This is theatre based on reality, raw, dangerous and alive.
PG (L)
Dates and Times:
Previews on 8, 9 and 10 May at 19:00
Opens on 11 May at 19:00
Thereafter Monday to Saturday at 19:00 except 18 May (20:00), and 30, 31 May, 1 June (18:00)
Prices:
Mondays R100 (see Baxter Mondays below)
All other performances R120
Discounts (Monday–Thursday only):
Previews: Buy two tickets for the price of one
2-for-1 Tuesdays (14 and 21 May only): Buy two tickets for the price of one
Students, senior citizens and block bookings of 20 or more R85
Student special: Pay R45 on production of any valid student card at the Baxter box office or Computicket outlets for a ticket, a drink and a samoosa (8–18 May only)
2-show combo: Buy tickets for both The Miser and Long Street Nights for only R200 (Monday–Thursday only until 16 May)
Please note that discounts may not be combined
Book online through Computicket.
For discounted block bookings, charities, corporate bookings and fundraisers please contact Sharon Ward on 021 680 3962, e-mail sharon.ward@uct.ac.za, or Carmen Kearns on 021 680 3993, e-mail carmen.kearns@uct.ac.za
BAXTER MONDAYS
Have a light meal in the Baxter restaurant and see a performance of Long Street Nights for only R100
The Baxter Theatre Centre and Zabalaza Festival present
SKIERLIK
Winner of the Zabalaza Festival Best Production Award
4–15 June (Golden Arrow Studio)
Written and performed by Phillip Dikotla
Originally directed by Mpho Molepo
14 January 2008: The son of an Afrikaner farmer shows up gun-blazing in the informal settlement of Skierlik ...
Skierlik, written by the 2012 ACT Impact Award-winner Phillip Dikotla, takes us through the difficult journey of forgiveness and bitterness, anger and hopelessness, change and acceptance, with humour running alongside.
Dates and Times:
Preview on 4 June at 19:00
Opens on 5 June at 19:00
Thereafter Monday to Saturday at 19:00
Price: R25
The Baxter Theatre Centre, in association with the South African State Theatre, presents
MIES JULIE
Restitutions of Body and Soil
since The Bantu Land Act No. 27 of 1913 and
The Immorality Act No. 5 of 1927
19 June – 6 July (Golden Arrow Studio)
Based on the play Miss Julie by: August Strindberg
Adapted and directed by Yael Farber
With Thoko Ntshinga, Bongile Mantsai, Hilda Cronje
Music composed by Daniel and Matthew Pencer and performed by Brydon Bolton and Mark Fransman
Singer and musician: Tandiwe Nofirst Lungisa
Set design by Patrick Curtis
Lighting design by Paul Abrams
Fresh from its triumphant tours to New York and London, the Baxter Theatre Centre’s runaway hit play Mies Julie returns to South African soil when it comes to the Golden Arrow Studio for two and a half weeks only.
Winner of four Fleur du Cap awards and three top awards at the Edinburgh Festival last year, the production has enjoyed tremendous success internationally, playing to sold-out performances and earning 30 international and local five-star reviews, as well as being rated one of the top 10 shows in New York in 2012 by the New York Times. See the international reviews for this production.
The South African-born and internationally acclaimed director Yael Farber sets her explosive adaptation of Strindberg's classic Miss Julie in the remote, bleak beauty of the Eastern Cape Karoo.
In a post-apartheid kitchen – a potent convergence point of domination, domestic practicality and untenable sadness – a single night, both brutal and tender, unfolds between a black farm labourer, the daughter of his "master" and the woman who has raised them both. The visceral struggles of contemporary South Africa are laid bare in this domestic setting, as a deadly battle between John and Mies Julie spirals one night over power, sexuality, memory, mothers and land.
The award-winning Farber's probing adaptation looks at a post-traumatic society and the knot of inheritances and legacies that entangle lives in the aftermath. Haunting and violent, intimate and epic, the struggles between the three individuals reach to address issues of restitution and the reality of what can and cannot ever be recovered.
Age restriction: PG 18
Dates and Times:
Opens on 19 June at 18:30
Thereafter Monday to Saturday at 18:30
Prices:
Monday–Thursday R130
Friday and Saturday R150
Discounts (Monday–Thursday only):
Students, senior citizens and block bookings of 10 or more R100
Book online through Computicket.
For discounted block bookings, charities, corporate bookings and fundraisers please contact Sharon Ward on 021 680 3962, e-mail sharon.ward@uct.ac.za, or Carmen Kearns on 021 680 3993, e-mail carmen.kearns@uct.ac.za
The Baxter Theatre Centre presents
SOLOMON AND MARION
10–20 July (Golden Arrow Studio)
Written and directed by Lara Foot
With Janet Suzman and Khayalethu Anthony
Set design by Patrick Curtis
Lighting design by Mannie Manim
Dame Janet Suzman stars in Solomon and Marion, written and directed by Lara Foot. A story of two injured souls searching for redemption in the fragile, post-apartheid South Africa. As the new South Africa prepares for the World Cup finals, old divisions and suspicions seem as deep as ever, and the intruder she has been expecting, dreading and needing arrives. Can true reconciliation turn darkness into hope?
Dates and Times:
Opens on 10 July at 19:00
Thereafter Monday to Saturday at 19:00
Matinee on Saturday, 13 July, at 14:00
Prices:
Monday–Thursday R150
Friday and Saturday at 20:00 R180
Matinee R150
Discounts (Monday–Thursday only):
Students, senior citizens and block bookings of 10 or more R100
Book online through Computicket.
For discounted block bookings, charities, corporate bookings and fundraisers please contact Sharon Ward on 021 680 3962, e-mail sharon.ward@uct.ac.za, or Carmen Kearns on 021 680 3993, e-mail carmen.kearns@uct.ac.za
presents
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE
12–27 July (Flipside)
Taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner
Directed by Jaqueline Dommisse
Performed by Kate Liquorish
Lighting design: Paul Abrams
Set and costume design: Illka Louw
Sound design: James Webb
Video design: Pascale Neuschäfer
Hearts and Eyes Theatre Collective has forged its reputation with staging human stories: the real and the personal in pursuit of truth and understanding. My Name is Rachel Corrie is such a work.
On 16 March 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American, was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. My Name Is Rachel Corrie is a one-woman play composed from Rachel's own journals, letters and e-mails – creating a portrait of a messy, articulate, Salvador Dali-loving chain-smoker (with a passion for the music of Pat Benatar), who left her home and school in Olympia, Washington, to work as an activist in the heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the three sold-out London runs since its Royal Court premiere, the piece has been surrounded by both controversy and impassioned proponents, and has raised an unprecedented call to support political work and the difficult discourse it creates.
'The play shrewdly does not show Corrie dying; it shows her living, in all her funny, lively, melancholy, and manipulative immediacy ... Her words bear witness to the deracinating madness of war, a hysteria that infects not only those doing the fighting but also those ambitious to do the saving." The New Yorker
http://rachelcorriefoundation.org
Age restriction: Not suitable for children under 11
Dates and Times:
Previwe on Friday 12 July at 20:00
Opens on Saturday 13 July at 20:00
Thereafter Monday to Saturday at 20:00
Matinee on Saturday 20 July at 15:00
Prices:
Monday R100 (see Baxter Mondays below)
Preview, matinee and Tuesday–Thursday evenings R110
Friday and Saturday evenings R140
Discounts (Monday–Thursday only):
Students, senior citizens and block bookings of 10 or more R100
Book online through Computicket.
For discounted block bookings, charities, corporate bookings and fundraisers please contact Sharon Ward on 021 680 3962, e-mail sharon.ward@uct.ac.za, or Carmen Kearns on 021 680 3993, e-mail carmen.kearns@uct.ac.za
BAXTER MONDAYS
Have a light meal in the Baxter restaurant and see a performance of My Name is Rachel Corrie for only R100
presents
SADAKO
30 July – 10 August (Flipside)
By Peter Hayes
Directed by Jaqueline Dommisse
Design
Puppets: Janni Younge
Set: Illka Louw
Costumes: Hillette Stapelberg
Toybox Theatre:
Lighting: Paul Abrams
Sound: James Webb
Puppeteers: Roshina Ratnam as Sadako with Lee-Ann van Rooi, Jason Potgieter, Gabriel Marchand,
Pascale Neuschäfer, Asanda Ritityana and Merryn Carver
Winner of the Handspring Puppet Company Award
Best Puppet Production 2011
A puppet theatre production for adults and older children based on the life of Sadako Sasaki. At two, Sadako survived the Hiroshima atom bomb but ten years later she developed leukaemia. A Japanese legend tells: 'If you fold 1000 origami cranes, your wish will be granted'; Sadako began folding paper.
Some may ask how Sadako's life can be relevant to a contemporary young South African audience. Sadako's experience transcends culture and period; she speaks to a young person's anxiety of growing up in a world where the youth must contend with the consequences of the actions of adults: war, nuclear power, global warming, HIV ... the legacy we leave our children is not always an easy one. Sadako's journey of hope in the face of devastating tragedy is a universal one.
"My fest favourite ... a human story that goes straight for the heart." Kgomotso Moncho, The Star Tonight
"... clarity of vision and intent that is rare, an exquisitely moving true fable ... adults can still be transfixed by a powerful yarn that appeals to our inner child." Christine Kennedy, CUE
Watch a short excerpt on YouTube.
Age restriction: Not suitable for children under 11
Dates and Times:
Previwe on Tuesday 30 July at 18:30
Opens on Wednesday 31 July at 18:30
Thereafter Wednesday–Friday at 18:30, Saturday at 15:00 and 18:30
Schools performances on 1, 2, 5, 6 and7 August at 10:00
Prices:
Preview, 10:00 and 15:00 performances R110
Wednesday–Saturday evenings R140
Discounts:
Family bookings:
Preview, 10:00 and 15:00 performances 4 tickets for R400
Wednesday–Saturday evenings 4 tickets for R500
Book online through Computicket.
For discounted block bookings, charities, corporate bookings and fundraisers please contact Sharon Ward on 021 680 3962, e-mail sharon.ward@uct.ac.za, or Carmen Kearns on 021 680 3993, e-mail carmen.kearns@uct.ac.za