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THEATRE
Out the Box Festival
Venue: Baxter Theatre, UCT Hiddingh Campus, Labia Cinema. Tel:
083 915 8000.
Time: -
Price: R30 - R50
Performances: 20 - 28 Mar 2010
Genre: Puppetry
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Out The Box Festival of Puppetry & Visual Performance is a
visual feast of performances, workshops, talks, exhibitions and films that
caters for adults and children alike. This year the event takes place at
the Baxter Theatre Centre, The UCT Hiddingh campus in Gardens and the
Labia Cinema on Orange Street.
For adult audiences, artists present their wildest and most beautiful
imaginings in works using puppetry, projection, objects, multi-media and
live performers. At the forefront of contemporary theatre worldwide,
Visual Performance is about collaboration and experimentation. It departs
from the spoken word into a sensory, evocative experience that explores
the boundaries between performance and visual art. When the sun sets and
the little ones are tucked in bed, adult audiences are invited back to
experience something completely different. Included in the breath-taking
line-up for the Adult Festival this year are international performance
artists and contemporary dancers, Duda Paiva from the Netherlands with
Angel and Edna Jaime from Mozambique with her provocative work, (Eu) peca
de terra-II. Some of the local works featured are the groundbreaking
Quack! by FTH:K ; Acty Tang’s Inscrutable and the acclaimed Mothertongue
Theatre’s The Baggage of Bags as well as several new works by new and
emerging theatre makers.
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So often it is childhood that comes to mind when thinking of
puppetry and those wanting a family theatre experience won’t be
disappointed. This year The Out The Box festival has created a Family
Festival programme of puppetry and visual performance from around the
globe featuring both overseas artists and preeminent Southern African
youth theatre practitioners like Ubom from Grahamstown and Arley’s
Workshop from Durban and the remarkable Seka from Zambia.
An extraordinary range of shows are on offer, some that will appeal to
the sophisticated tastes of older children and teenagers like Lennie and
the Wasteland as well as well as shows that will cast a spell of wonder
over the very young. Take a journey through Africa with Tales from the
Calabash; Indlovu People; Taku and the Rainbow Princess and Embo; or be
inspired by stories from other parts of the world with productions like
Oruk from Sweden, or Lost and Found from Canada.
Active Puppets Proactive training and development programme sees selected
groups performing short pieces as part of Showcase with works created
especially for the festival. Iqonga, Unima’s platform for experimentation
in Visual Performance, features short form works by emergent theatre
makers and performance art professionals. Moving Things, our film
component, will be presented again this year with an exciting selection of
stop motion and puppetry films at the Labia. Aja Marneveck will be
convening a conference entitled The role of Women in the Development and
Creation of Puppetry and Visual Theatre in Contemporary Performance.
For those who want to get more deeply immersed in the experience, a range
of exciting workshops will be presented by specialists in the many diverse
forms of puppetry, including a workshop by South Africa’s national
treasure, Handspring Puppet Company.
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