10 Jul 12 - 29 Jul 12
Showtime Australia presents the bes…
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Showtime Australia presents the best of ABBA live - all the musical memories, costumes, flares, boots and disco balls! Relive the magic that was the `70s and `80s with best loved renditions of Dancing Queen, Waterloo, Fernando, Mama Mia, I Do I Do I Do and so many more. The ABBA Show has been all ar…
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22 May 12 - 02 Jun 12
EVITA, one of the best known creati…
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EVITA, one of the best known creations of the amazing partnership between Andrew, Baron Lloyd Webberand Sir Tim Rice, has enjoyed sell out seasons around the world and been adored by millions of theatregoers worldwide. The original Broadway production of EVITA ran for 1,567 performances and won the…
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08 Jul 12
Deur die loop van die eeue is baie …
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Deur die loop van die eeue is baie musiek met die titel ?Ave Maria? gekomponeer. Ook is die gebruik van die woordjie ?Halleluja / Allelui. `n algemene verskynsel in die musiekkonteks. Die ATKV, in samewerking met die US Woordfees se besondere musiekproduksie, Ave Maria / Halleluja is gebaseer op die…
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09 Jun 12 - 23 Jun 12
International Test Match: South Afr…
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26 Jun 12 - 13 Jul 12
Following their 2011 sell-out seaso…
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Following their 2011 sell-out season of The Nutcracker by PI Tchaikovsky, The Imperial Russian Ballet returns to SA.
This company was founded in April 1994 on the initiative of the legendary Russian ballerina Maija Plisetzkaya. The company was named after the Imperial Russian Ballet in honour of fo…
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28 Jun 12 - 29 Jun 12
!Aia is a transversal work between …
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!Aia is a transversal work between art, culture, science and traditional wisdom. !Aia creates a dialogue about our origins, life, the living, the relationship between human beings and nature. The company has worked with scientists, artists and traditional healers in unique places including the Cradl…
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28 Jun 12 - 30 Jun 12
"Written by Teakshania Chetty colla…
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"Written by Teakshania Chetty collaborating with Genbia Hyla Directed by Thembalethu Professor Nqumako.A button is pressed. "Start"! Gun shots! Pow! Pow! "Go".The trap doors are shut, and interrogations are all that is left when there`s nowhere to hide.Man to man, face to face! Bang! Bang! Bang! The…
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04 Jul 12 - 06 Jul 12
This play transports the audience t…
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This play transports the audience to a world where spirits wander, trees stretch way up to the sky and deep below the soil, and the air is thick with history and heat. A world where ancient rituals have the power to re-unite lovers separated by death.
Communities around the world suffer great loss…
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01 Jul 12 - 03 Jul 12
A re-education camp for myths. A ba…
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A re-education camp for myths. A battery farm for victims. The place where stories go after we stop telling them. This is the world as Persephone, Orpheus and Sisyphus know it. All victims of a brutal system ruled by indifferent gods, they struggle to find meaning and identity in their stories of ab…
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28 Jun 12 - 30 Jun 12
Bye bye world! is a transparent par…
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Bye bye world! is a transparent parable about living today, in which the performers need nothing but themselves to conjur a whole universe. It`s modern storytelling in its purest form.
From the Amsterdam jury: `The performers are complex, fearless and truthful. The staging is simple and meticulou…
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30 Jun 12 - 03 Jul 12
A beautiful, intimate story, takes …
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A beautiful, intimate story, takes the audience on an almost filmic experience as the unlikely relationship between two men evolves from an awkward first encounter to a deep and lasting friendship which neither expects or understands. Sometimes in life friendships choose us. People enter our lives f…
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29 Jun 12 - 01 Jul 12
Faces of Betrayal is a poignant, ne…
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Faces of Betrayal is a poignant, new work-shopped play that explores the lives of young people living in Cape Town through a series of events involving moments of betrayal. The play draws on personal narrative and research on the streets of Cape Town. Through their detailed character observations, t…
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03 Jul 12 - 05 Jul 12
There are two sides to every fence.…
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There are two sides to every fence. As one side protects, the other repels. (If you stay on your side, my side is fine).
Not content with being lines of reference, fences bear witness. Witness to our divisions, to our destinations, our separations and the things we think we control.
Fences strain…
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04 Jul 12 - 07 Jul 12
When a relationship goes wrong, som…
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When a relationship goes wrong, something must happen to the fragments left behind. To the letters, the trinkets, the objects and bits of history shared between two people.
It must be sealed up in a box and stored away.
It must be buried in the backyard, out of sight.
It must be looked at now an…
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28 Jun 12 - 30 Jun 12
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06 Jul 12 - 08 Jul 12
Fear is an artistic co-production b…
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Fear is an artistic co-production between South African choreographer and performer, Athena Mazarakis and Hansel Nezza, choreographer, performer and artistic director of MARABULA barcelona, berlin. Their collaboration creates an immersive theatrical encounter that delves into that most basic, common…
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04 Jul 12 - 05 Jul 12
In Lanx, a continuous current circu…
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In Lanx, a continuous current circulates between the body and the geometrical motifs that encircle it. Balancing on the lines, unfolding its sides, its ridges, its angles, playing with perspectives that continually renew themselves, the body sounds out its capacity to inscribe forms in a predetermin…
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02 Jul 12 - 04 Jul 12
The architect of apartheid, Hendrik…
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The architect of apartheid, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd`s extramarital affair with a black woman produces a bastard child. The mother of anti-apartheid, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, stabs a 14-year-old police informant with a pair of scissors in the neck.
Between law and order, duty and pride, black p…
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