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SPECIAL EVENTS
Drama for Life Festival
Venue: Hiddingh Campus, Orange St, Cape Town. Tel:
(021) 480 7129.
Time:
Various
Price:
Free, but donations welcome
Performances:
9 - 11 Sep 2010
Genre: Festival
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The festival, themed “Sex Actually”, has completed a week’s
run at Wits University and now makes its way to the University of Cape
Town’s Hiddingh campus. In partnership with UCT’s Drama Department and the
Little Theatre, Cape Town’s Drama for Life (DfL) Festival will be using
the arts to open up discussions around sex, HIV and Aids and
relationships.
Taking place mainly in the Arena Theatre, the Little
Theatre, the Rosedale building and the Movement Room, the programme
includes two highly acclaimed plays from Peter Hayes, fresh from
Grahamstown stages – Ncamisa! The Women and I Am Here.
Ncamisa! The Women (on Friday at 8pm and Saturday at 4pm at
the Arena) is a brave and deeply moving exploration of
growing up as a black lesbian in South Africa, and is based on the true
story of Zoliswa Nkonyana, who was beaten and stabbed to death by a group
of young men because of her sexuality.
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I Am Here (on Thursday at 1pm and
Saturday at 7pm at the Little Theatre), directed by Jaqueline Dommisse, is
a deeply personal work performed by Hayes, who, after deciding to adopt a
child, found out that he was HIV positive.
Another festival highlight is PJ Sabbagha’s
HIV/Aids-inspired multimedia contemporary dance work Deep Night, featuring
Standard Bank Young Artist Dada Masilo, on Thursday and Friday at 8.30pm
at the Little Theatre.
Other performances include the production Siyasebenza! and
laughter therapy workshops by Clowns Without Borders, as well as the
interactive, improvised Stories of Transformation by Bonfire Theatre. The
Ubom! Eastern Cape Drama Company will be staging Hush – a funny,
hard-hitting production that tackles topics usually shied away from in
polite conversation – as well as workshops, while the Siwela Sonke Dance
Theatre presents The Human Ladder.
The “No Blame No Shame” workshops with Dr
Ann Ferrera focus on training young, sexually active people how to treat
their bodies and health with respect, dignity and responsibility, while
Phakama’s S*X workshops at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective in
Observatory integrate performance and installation elements.
Lovers of spoken-word performance
shouldn’t miss the DfL Lover and Another Poetry Workshop – a vibrant
poetry slam during which young people can talk frankly about sex and
relationships.
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