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Kat & the Kings comes home to District SixExcellent seats available in June for this finger clicking, hand clapping, foot stomping musical!Book early to avoid disappointment.
More than a decade after its double Olivier award-winning run in London’s West End and On Broadway in New York, Eric Abraham and the Fugard are proud to present a new production of David Kramer and Taliep Petersen’s smash hit musical, Kat and The Kings. This high energy production will be performed for the very first time in the heart of District Six with a combination of award-winning soloists and a dazzling new young cast from Cape Town.
Set in Cape Town’s District Six in the 1950s, Kat & the Kings explores the journey of teenager Kat Diamond (played by Dean Balie), from singing outside the Westminster Café to recording a seven single record and performing at The Claridges Hotel in Durban. Young Kat, who is convinced that he is the best singer and dancer in District Six, forms the a cappella group the Cavalla Kings with his friends Ballie (Carlo Daniels), Bingo (Grant Peres) and Magoo (Zak Toerien). When Magoo’s sister Lucy Dixon (Amy Trout) decides to take them under her wing, the quintet, with their American doo wop and rock and roll influences, becomes a sensation in the District. Danny Butler who played the older Kat Diamond in London, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Vienna will reprise his role at the Fugard Theatre. Audiences can look forward to a 6 piece live band, led by the talented musical director and saxophonist Don-veno Prins, who will accompany the action every night.
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COSÌ FAN TUTTE - 20 & 27 MayTHE FUGARD THEATRE BIOSCOPE CLOSES ITS CURRENT WORLD OPERA AND BALLET SEASON WITH COSI FAN TUTTEWolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Opera Screening in two acts | Sung in Italian | Running time: 2 hours 55 minutes (excluding intervals)Over the course of the next two Sunday’s, the Fugard Theatre Bioscope, in association with The Royal Opera House will screen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte as part of their hugely successful, inaugural World Opera and Ballet Season.
Cosi Fan Tutte is Mozart and Da Ponte’s third opera, a witty tale of deception and trust tested to the limit - a comedy with distinctly serious elements. Can two apparently faithful couples have their affections altered by some apparently harmless deception? Jonathan Miller’s ever-popular production updates the 18th-century to today – while fashions and technology may have changed since Mozart’s time, human behaviour remains as fickle and manipulative as ever. Royal Opera favorite Thomas Allen returns in a strong cast of singers under acclaimed German conductor Thomas Hengelbrock. The title may suggest that it is the way of women to behave this way – 'such is the way they are' – but then it seems to be true of the men too. In this most sophisticated of operas with the most sublime of scores, no one escapes unscathed.
The opera is sung in Italian with English subtitles and screened in two acts. The opera runs 2 hours and 55 minutes, excluding a 15 minute interval.
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Athol Fugard's - The Blue IrisEric Abraham, the Fugard Theatre and The National Arts Festival, in association with Mannie Manim present
Athol Fugard’s - THE BLUE IRIS
In celebration of Athol Fugard’s 80th birthday this year, the Fugard Theatre is proud to announce a 5 week season of The Blue Iris at the Fugard Theatre Studio, following its world premiere at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. The Blue Iris previews 4 July and opens 7 July 2012 to run for a limited season in Cape Town.
“We should be going into people’s lives, their souls, their ways of life. Everything I have written is an attempt to share secrets with you…” – Athol Fugard
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Encounters Documentary Film Festival Comes To The Fugard
Graceland documentary Under African Skies to open Encounters
Diarise 7-24 June 2012 for Africa’s most prestigious documentary festival
• Jon Blair focus – a retrospective of SA’s first Oscar winner • 2012 Oscar nominees: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory & Wim Wenders’ Pina • Director Kevin Macdonald’s must-see portrait of reggae icon Bob Marley • New SA films by previous Encounters winners Bryan Little, Dylan Valley & Cliff Bestall
Under African Skies will open the 14th Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, which runs from 7-24 June 2012 in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Directed by Emmy and Peabody winner Joe Berlinger, the documentary tells the inside story of Paul Simon’s trip to South Africa to record Graceland and his return last year to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The bestselling, Grammy-winning album introduced South African music to the world and has been included in numerous Best Album of All Time lists by the likes of Rolling Stone and Time, but the trip was heavily criticized at the time, as it undermined the cultural embargo against Apartheid.
Under African Skies was a favourite at Sundance earlier this year, where The Hollywood Reporter called it “pure bliss.”
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The Fugard Theatre is proud to recognize and congratulate the nominees and award winners of the productions produced and hosted at the Fugard Theatre.
The winners are:
Wilna Snyman in Klaasvakie as Albertine
Nicole Holm in Klaasvakie as Die Verpleegster
Saul Radomsky for set design in The Bird Watchers
James Webb for sound design in The Bird Watchers
Congratulations to all the winners!
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