SOUTH AFRICA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 89

Mae Sithole has graced stages from the Grahamstown National Arts Festival, Dakar - Senegal, HIFA (Zimbabwe) to Nice - France, and her home country Zimbabwe.

In a dystopian South Africa, even the superheroes are dysfunctional.

In medieval times, a jester was employed by a nobleman or monarch to entertain him and his guests.

Amee Lekas's DIE DANS VAN DIE WATERMEID, which means 'the dance of the water maiden,' which only existed on paper at the first editions of Kunste Onbeperk's script market, Teksmark, in Cape Town last year, will soon come to life as a fully-fledged production at the Baxter Theatre Centre.

Presented by the Claremont Dramatic Society, the classic Agatha Christie murder mystery THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is currently on stage at The Masque Theatre in Muizenberg.

This year's DANCERS LOVE DOGS will take place at the Artscape Opera House at 19:30 on 1 November, aiding the mass sterilisation of animals in crisis.

Lefra Productions is proud to announce that the American pop and country favourites, The Bellamy Brothers, will be touring South Africa and Namibia in November 2017.

The Cape Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Debbie Turner, returns to Cape Town's Artscape Theatre in November 2017 with INTERPLAY.

Sandra Prinsloo will star in MOEDERTAAL at the Fugard Studio Theatre for a limited season starting 14 November.

THE BIRDCAGE, the movie that brought a political scandal into a Miami drag club to create a raucously hilarious comedy about an unorthodox family, is being brought to life at the Masque Theatre in Muizenberg.

Having played debut South African seasons in both Johannesburg and Cape Town and with an encore season in the City of Gold already under its belt, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is guaranteed to leave audiences in the Mother City aching with laughter when the production returns to Theatre on the Bay this

DIRGE, an hour-long improvised, instrumental art rock soundscaping performance, with Helo Samo Frank Lunar and Caitlin Mkhasibe, will play the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre this November.

Cape Town-based actress Masali Baduza is passionately in love with theatre and film.

With a career that has spanned nearly 20 years, singer/songwriter Garth Taylor's tremendous stage presence always guarantees a great time.

KLIPPIES VAN DIE GROND will play a three-performance season at the Magnet Theatre in Observatory this November.

Due to an overwhelming response, the award-winning production of DIE REUK VAN APPELS has been extended at the Fugard Studio Theatre.

The popular Fugard Bioscope has announced an exciting encore line up for the holidays with The National Theatre Encore Season.

THREE PIZZAS, a new piece devised by Tristan de Beer, Nelson Menell and Tailyn Ramsamy, who will also perform the piece, will play The Arena Theatre at the University of Cape Town's Hiddingh Campus in Gardens this November.

Zwelethu Radebe's 30-minute short film, THE HANGMAN, won shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival's 'Made in South Africa' Jury Award at the exciting finale event of the worldwide festival last night.

The Furies will be staging their newest production, NASTY WOMXN, at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre this October and November.

In many ways, it comes as something of a surprise that DIE REUK VAN APPELS has not made its way to the stage until now.

'I - will have poetry in my life.

Following the short season of her latest work ROCK TO THE CORE, choreographer, performance artist and activist Mamela Nyamza brings her equally controversial and provocative DE-APART-HATE, to the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio this October.

RENAISSANCE, written and directed by Wessel Pretorius, will return to the Alexander Upstairs Theatre this October with its original cast of Jazzara Jaslyn, Len-Barry Simons and David Viviers.

Artscape Theatre Centre is set to celebrate the talent of young musicians as well as the success of their band leaders within their respective communities in a grand mass band extravaganza to be held on stage from 26 28 October.