SOUTH AFRICA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 97

In The Plum Tree, Jan Groenewald takes us on a harrowing journey through a childhood experience of sexual violation to victory and celebration.

At a time in South Africa, where women are under siege, the performers of Jazzart are using the power of dance to tell women's stories.

Following a global magical tour, award-winning sleight-of-hand artist Stuart Lightbody returns home to Cape Town this winter to present his breath-taking new show, Unique Wonders, at the Alexander Upstairs Theatre, from Monday 31 July to Saturday 19 August 2017.

MATE, a tragicomedy written and directed by Samantha Gray, will play the Alexander Upstairs from tonight for a three-performance run this weekend.

Award-winning actor, comic and musician Sne Dladla possesses an irresistible charm and raw talent and will soon star in ICHAMELEON, presented by Nik Rabinowitz and directed by Loukmaan Adams.

Back by popular demand, THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL: THE WHITNEY HOUSTEN SHOW returns to Cape Town to once again honour and celebrate the world's most loved pop diva.

Jonathan Roxmouth, one of the biggest names in South African theatre, stars with the inimitable Weslee Swain Lauder in THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP as they have never been seen before.

The annual Baxter Dance Festival will take place from 5 to 14 October this year.

Improguise will present POP-UP IMPROV, performed and created by Anne Hirsch, Tandi Buchan, Leon Clingman, Ardine Fick, Brett Fish Anderson, Megan Furniss, Jaco Griessel and James Harvey, at the Alexander Upstairs Theatre, for three nights next week, starting 29 June.

Godfrey Johnson and Nicholas McDiarmid will play the Alexander Upstairs in a cabaret compiled by themselves this June.

MATE, a tragicomedy written and directed by Samantha Gray, will play the Alexander Upstairs this weekend.

Artscape Theatre Centre's 2016 Incubators group will form part of South African theatre history when it showcases its production "Everyone Has It" at the inaugural Arts Enterprise Development "Trade Fair" initiated by the Department of Arts and Culture.

In EVITA BEZUIDENHOUT AND THE KAKTUS OF SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT, Tannie Evita takes on the roots of our rainbow in a season of performances at Theatre on the Bay from 20 June - 1 July.

Lefra Productions is bringing a stage adaptation of Dalene Matthee's classic South African novel, FIELA SE KIND, to the Theatre of Marcellus at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg this June.

Dara Beth, who is currently on stage in JUST A SONG AND DANCE at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre before taking the show to the National Arts Festival next month.

The University of Cape Town's Drama Department will showcase its third and fourth year acting students in a series of three productions this month.

The annual Baxter Dance Festival will take place from 5 - 14 October and choreographers, independent dance-makers, dance studios, schools, companies and groups, are now invited to apply to be part of this year's programme.

The SA Children's Home will benefit from three performances of a family magic show performed by Jacques le Sueur at the Masque Theatre in July.

'La-la-la-la-la-la, sing a happy song.

BORDERLINE takes an entertaining look at one naive young man's journey through this rite of passage and how the infectious and inspirational music of the Beatles kept his heart and soul together as his perceptions of the world changed.

The stage is set at the Masque Theatre for a new production of Charlotte Bronte's JANE EYRE.

South African theatre legend Jennie Reznek returns to the stage in her hugely popular production, I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE.

CHEERS TO SARAJEVO, a drama written by Aimée Goldsmith and Lidija Marelic and directed by Ashleigh Harvey, will play a winter season at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre.

From the creative team that brought you PAY BACK THE CURRY, comes another satirical, multi-sketch sequel about life in contemporary South Africa, STATE FRACTURE.

Hot on the heels of a successful run at the Kalk Bay Theatre and the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Cape Town's favourite rude, raunchy and rocking country cabaret returns to the Alexander Theatre for a pre-Grahamstown canter.