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THEATRE
The Mysteries and The Magic Flute at The Fugard
Venue: The Fugard Theatre, Caledon St, District 6.
Tel: (021) 461 4554.
Time: Tue - Sat @ 7:30pm, Sun @ 3:30pm
Price: Tue - R50; Wed - Thur - R80; Fri & Sat - R120; Sun - R80
Performances: 17 Feb - 11 Apr 2010
Genre: Various
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The opening season will feature performances of the Olivier
and Globes de Cristal award-winning The Magic Flute in repertoire with the
internationally acclaimed production The Mysteries. The Fugard Theatre
will then host the world première of Athol Fugard’s new play The Train
Driver, to be directed by Athol Fugard himself, in March.
After two years of working from a church hall in Athlone, the Isango
Portobello Company has made themselves at home in the Fugard Theatre. “At
last we have a real home – it is an historic moment,” says Pauline
Malefane, co-music director and founder of Isango Portobello.
Isango Portobello’s production of The Magic Flute – Impempe Yomlingo,
which features Mozart’s score transposed for an orchestra of marimbas,
broke box office records when it played in repertoire with A Christmas
Carol – Ikrismas Kherol at the Young Vic in London.
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Together these productions won the Whatsonstage
Theatregoers’ Choice Award for Best Off-West End Production. The Magic
Flute – Impempe Yomlingo then won an Olivier Award for Best Musical
Revival when it transferred to the Duke of York’s theatre for a season in
the West End. It has also recently won the Globes de Cristal Award for
Opera. These awards, presented annually in Paris, are the main arts and
culture awards of France, equivalent to the American Tony Awards.
In June last year the company’s latest production of The Mysteries -
Yiimimangaliso premièred in Cape Town at the Baxter Theatre before a three
week run at The Garrick Theatre in London’s West End in September where it
played to unanimous critical acclaim.
Isango Portobello has specialised in re-imagining classics from the
Western theatre canon, finding a new context for the stories within an
African setting, and creating new work that is relevant to the heritage of
South Africa.
Dates for The Mysteries: Yiimimangaliso
February 17, 19, 24, 26 and 28
Dates for The Magic Flute: Impempe Yomlingo
February 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 27
Dates for Athol Fugard’s The Train Driver
19 March - 11 April 2010
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