• 29-West-Side-Story
  • 31-Cabaret
  • 30-Orpheus-in-Africa
  • 30-The-Pervert-Laura
  • The Fugard Main Theatre
  • 26-Human-Being-Died-That-Night
  • The Rocky Horror Show
  • 05-Blood-Brothers
  • 27-Huummingbird
  • 03-Front-Building
  • 02-Kat
  • 04-Train-Driver
  • 06-Broken-Glass
  • 07-Champ
  • 10-Roof
  • 08-Godot
  • 09-Vusi
  • 11-Statements
  • 12-A-Number
  • 13-Studio-Stage
  • 15-Zoid
  • 16-Kaptein
  • 17-Bird-Watchers
  • 18-Shannon
  • 19-Annex
  • 22-Foyer
  • 23-Karretjiegraf
  • 21-Annex-Top-Floor
  • 24-Blue-Iris
  • 25-Klaasvakie
  • 20-Annex-Ground-Floor
  • Come and join us at the Fugard Theatre.
  • Lynelle Kenned and Jonathan Roxmouth in WEST SIDE STORY
  • Masteroff, Kander and Ebb's CABARET
  • David Kramer's ORPHEUS IN AFRICA
  • Louis Viljoen's THE PERVERT LAURA
  • The Fugard Main Theatre
  • Noma Dumezweni and Matthew Marsh in Nicholas Wright's A HUMAN BEING DIED THAT NIGHT
  • Richard O'Brien's THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
  • Willy Russell's BLOOD BROTHERS
  • Athol Fugard in THE SHADOW OF THE HUMMINGBIRD
  • The Entrance to the Fugard Theatre on Caledon Street Cape Town
  • David Kramer and Taliep Petersen's KAT AND THE KINGS
  • Athol Fugard directs Sean Taylor and Owen Sejake in THE TRAIN DRIVER
  • Sir Antony Sher and Stephen Jennings in Arthur Miller's BROKEN GLASS
  • Pierre Malherbe, Nicholas Pauling, Mark Elderkin and Oliver Booth in CHAMP
  • The Rooftop Terrace with Stretch Tent
  • Sir Ian McKellen in Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT
  • Vusi Mahlasela LIVE IN CONCERT
  • Bo Petersen in Athol Fugard's STATEMENTS AFTER AN ARREST UNDER THE IMMORALITY ACT
  • Samuel and Timothy West in Caryl Churchill's A NUMBER
  • The Sigrid Rausing Studio
  • Karen Zoid LIVE IN CONCERT
  • Owen Sejake and Neels van Jaarsveld in Athol Fugard's DIE KAPTEIN SE TIER (THE CAPTAIN'S TIGER)
  • Sean Taylor and Guy de Lancey in Athol Fugard's THE BIRD WATCHERS
  • Shannon Hope LIVE IN CONCERT
  • The Fugard Annex in Harrington Street
  • The Fugard Theatre Foyer and Bar Area
  • Ivan Abrahams in Athol Fugard's DIE LAASTE KARRETJIEGRAF
  • The Fugard Annex Top Floor
  • Graham Weir and Claire Berlein in Athol Fugard's THE BLUE IRIS
  • Nicole Holm, Wilna Snyman and Antoinette Kellerman in Lauren de Vos's KLAASVAKIE (THE SANDMAN)
  • The Fugard Annex Ground Floor

Currently On and Coming Soon

Oleanna

Oleanna

FROM 14 SEP 2018

TUE – FRI 8 PM | SAT 3 & 8 PM | SUN 3 PM

Eric Abraham presents a Fugard Theatre production of Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet’s powerful and searingly topical play presented in the Fugard Studio Theatre for a strictly limited season. In Oleanna, a female college student engages with her male professor in a heated discussion about his lesson content and teaching style. The relationship between a teacher and his student quickly turns into a fiendishly acute x-ray of the mechanisms of status, censorship,  abuse and a charge of sexual harassment.

Afrique mon désir

Afrique mon désir

18 – 20 OCT 2018

THU – FRI 8PM | SAT 4 & 8PM

The exhilarating world music production Afrique mon désir is back in South Africa for an exclusive run at The Fugard Theatre after a successful French tour. Afrique mon désir is directed by David Kramer with musical direction by Schalk Joubert and features singer and composer, Laurinda Hofmeyr, well known for setting poetry to music, perform with an ensemble of world class musicians and singers from Cape Town and West Africa. Africa's most beautiful and relevant poetry from as far as Madagascar to Mauritania and Cameroon to Cape Town is set to mesmerising rhythms, energetic dance routines and animation, making this show  an audio-visual feast.

David Kramer's Langarm

David Kramer's Langarm

FROM 20 NOV 2018

TUE – FRI 8 PM | SAT 3 & 8 PM | SUN 3PM

He was white. She was not. They broke the law to dance. Langarm, the latest musical created by the award-winning David Kramer, will be presented at the Fugard Theatre for the festive season from 20 November. Langarm is a story of love and intrigue set in the story-world of Cape Town’s ballroom dance culture in the 1960s. With the threat of the new apartheid laws hanging over their heads, people will do almost anything to survive.

Coming Soon

The 2018 Fugard Bioscope World Arts Cinema Season Part 2

The 2018 Fugard Bioscope World Arts Cinema Season Part 2

FROM 14 OCT 2018

SUNDAYS 10 AM

Round off 2018 with screenings of the world’s best theatre, opera and ballet at The Fugard Bioscope. The enticing line up for the second half of the 2018 Fugard Bioscope World Arts Cinema Season has been announced, starting with the Bolshoi Ballet’s captivating production of Coppélia.

Die reuk van appels

Die reuk van appels

FROM 23 OCT

TUE – FRI 8 PM | SAT 3 & 8 PM

Adapted from the acclaimed 1993 debut novel of South African author Mark Behr, Die reuk van appels is the coming-of-age story of Marnus Erasmus, 11-year-old son of a South African Defence Force (SADF) general. It eloquently captures the Afrikaner mentality in the late 1970s and early 1980s and the brutal consequences of apartheid and militarisation of South African life. Afrikaans with English surtitles.

When in doubt say darling

When in doubt say darling

27 NOV – 15 DEC 2018

TUE – FRI 8PM | SAT 4 & 8PM

Bookings are now open for the return season.

At a time when a casual greeting or embrace can be seen as racist or harassment, the advice is simple: when in doubt say darling. If you can't remember their names, just say darling. If you get lost along the road to somewhere, simply ask for Darling. He did it, and now Pieter-Dirk Uys also lives in Darling.

West Side Story

West Side Story
MUST CLOSE 22 APR 2018
TUE – FRI 8 PM | SAT 4 & 8 PM | SUN 2 & 6 PM | R150 – R470
Artscape Opera House

  • Dates

    07 Mar 2018 -

  • Time

    TUE – FRI 8 PM | SAT 4 & 8 PM | SUN 2 & 6 PM

  • Price

    R150 – R470

  • Duration

    2 hours 30 mins

  • Cast

    • Kevin HackTony
    • Stephen JubberRiff
    • Sven-Eric MüllerDiesel
    • Michael FullardBaby John
    • Jonathan RaathA-Rab
    • Logan TimbreAction
    • Cameron BothaSnowboy
    • Benton-Steele BotesBig Deal
    • Lee Van Der MerweAnybody’s
    • Gemma Trehearn Minne
    • Michèle La TrobeGraziella
    • Jenna Robinson-ChildVelma, Female Dance Captain
    • Brittané Van LoggerenbergPauline
    • Daniel RichardsBernardo
    • Clint LeschChino
    • Shaun OelfPepe
    • Duane WilliamsIndio
    • Thami NjokoLuis
    • Tevin WienerToro
    • Julio José JantjiesNibbles
    • Lynelle KennedMaria
    • Bianca Le GrangeAnita
    • Kirsten Murphy RossiterRosalia
    • Chloe PerlingConsuela
    • Sarah-Ann Van Der MerweFrancisca
    • Lesego Van NiekerkTeresita
    • Kirsty NdawoEstella
    • James BorthwickDoc
    • Craig UrbaniSchrank, Glad Hand
    • Richard LothianKrupke
    • Ernestine StuurmanMaria Cover
    • Nurit GraffFemale Dance Swing
    • Claire BoswellFemale Swing
    • Hardy KeeveMale Swing
    • Grant Van SterResident Choreographer, Male Dance Captain
    • Justin SwartzMale Swing

  • Creative

    • Matthew WildDirector
    • Charl-Johan LingenfelderMusical Director and Conductor
    • Louisa TalbotChoreography
    • Conor MurphySet Design
    • Tim MitchellLighting Design
    • Birrie Le RouxCostume Design
    • Mark MalherbeSound Design

After receiving rave reviews across the board from critics and audiences alike, Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre’s smash hit production of West Side Story will return to Cape Town at the Artscape Opera House in 2018.
 
The exceptional Lynelle Kenned (Orpheus in Africa, Blood Brothers, Showboat) will reprise the role of Maria for which she won the Fleur du Cap for Best Actress in a Musical in 2016.  Tony, will be played by US-born actor Kevin Hack who has performed the role almost 400 times and recently completed the international tour playing the role in the 60th anniversary international tour of Michael Brenner's production of West Side Story. His other hit show credits include Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, Catch Me If You Can: The Musical and The Civil War.
 
Other principal cast members reprising their roles are Bianca Le Grange as Anita (Blood Brothers, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat), Stephen Jubber as Riff, leader of the Jets gang (Aunty Merle the Musical, Annie, Mamma Mia!) and Sven-Eric Müller as Diesel (Funny Girl, Cabaret). Craig Urbani (Rock of Ages, Sound of Music, Isidingo) returns as Shrank, the role he performed in the Johannesburg season, with Richard Lothian (The Play That Goes Wrong) once again playing Officer Krupke. Daniel Richards (Aunty Merle the Musical, State Fracture, Pay Back the Curry) re-joins the cast as Bernardo and James Borthwick (Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Rhythm City, Evita) will take the role of Doc. Michael Fullard (Priscilla Queen of the Desert), Jonathan Raath (Priscilla Queen of the Desert), Cameron Botha (Funny Girl, Pinocchio, Sweeney Todd), Benton-Steele Botes (69 For your (Adult) Eyes Only), Lee van der Merwe (Immortal), Gemma Trehearn (Sacred Space), Michèle Trobe (Funny Girl), Jenna Robinson-Child (Cabaret), Brittané van Loggerenberg (A Spartacus of Africa), Clint Lesch (Calling Me Home), Duane Williams (7de Laan), Thami Njoko (Honey 3: Dare To Dance), Shaun Oelf (Fishers of Hope), Tevin Wiener (Honey 3: Dare to Dance), Nurit Graff (Saturday Night Fever), Claire Boswell (Singin’ in the Rain), Hardy Keeve (4) and Kirsten Murphy Rossiter (Peter Pan), Chloe Perling (Cabaret), Kirsty Ndawo (Chicago), Ernestine Stuurman (Tiger Bay), Sarah-Ann van der Merwe (Pinocchio), Julio Jantjies (A Spartacus of Africa), Logan Timbre (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) and Lesego van Niekerk (African Footprint) complete the talented cast.
 
West Side Story, a production by Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre, exploded on to the Cape Town stage in the winter of 2015 and due to overwhelming demand will return to the Artscape stage for one final season in South Africa. The grand-scale musical, known globally for an unforgettable score that marries stirring music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, retells William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and is set in New York City's Upper West Side in the late 1950s. It follows the heart breaking, short-lived love story of two young and idealistic lovers, Tony and Maria, who are caught between two warring street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks. The extended dynamic dance scenes and iconic songs such as "Something's Coming", "Maria", "I Feel Pretty" and “Tonight”, all set to Bernstein’s magnificent score, make for riveting theatre.
 
The Fugard Theatre’s West Side Story brings together the same award-winning core creative team behind other superb Fugard Theatre productions The Rocky Horror Show, Cabaret and Funny Girl. Matthew Wild is director, Charl-Johan Lingenfelder is musical director and conductor, and Louisa Talbot is the choreographer, with Grant van Ster (Calling me Home, Aunty Merle the Musical) as Resident Choreographer. With a full orchestra and an outstanding cast of forty, West Side Story is once again set to sweep Capetonians off their feet. 

★★★★★ Flawless - City Press
★★★★★ Magic “West Side” slays the genre for SA - The Star Tonight
★★★★★ - The Cape Argus
★★★★★ - Die Burger
Sets new standards for local grand-scale musicals - Die Beeld
It’s up there among the best theatre experiences in this city, of the decade - What's on in Joburg
A theatrical masterpiece - Stage and Screen
West Side Story is as good as musicals get - The Next 48 Hours
...raises the bar for musical theatre internationally. - Bizcommunity
…every bit as brilliant as any international production, if not better. - Daily Maverick
Whimsical, breathtaking, visually explosive … an overwhelming, heart-thudding theatrical performance you simply have to experience. - Theatre Scene CPT
The Fugard Theatre's production of West Side Story is a tour-de-force - LitNet
West Side Story has to be the hottest ticket in town. It sizzles. - Artslink
★★★★★ Flawless - City Press
★★★★★ Magic “West Side” slays the genre for SA - The Star Tonight
★★★★★ - The Cape Argus
★★★★★ - Die Burger
Sets new standards for local grand-scale musicals - Die Beeld
It’s up there among the best theatre experiences in this city, of the decade - What's on in Joburg
A theatrical masterpiece - Stage and Screen
West Side Story is as good as musicals get - The Next 48 Hours
...raises the bar for musical theatre internationally. - Bizcommunity
…every bit as brilliant as any international production, if not better. - Daily Maverick
Whimsical, breathtaking, visually explosive … an overwhelming, heart-thudding theatrical performance you simply have to experience. - Theatre Scene CPT
The Fugard Theatre's production of West Side Story is a tour-de-force - LitNet
West Side Story has to be the hottest ticket in town. It sizzles. - Artslink

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Ida

Ida
4 FEB 2018
11 AM | R100
The Fugard Bioscope

  • Dates

    04 Feb 2018 - 04 Feb 2018

  • Time

    11 AM

  • Price

    R100

  • Duration

    1 hour 22 minutes, no interval

Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. 

Ida, a film produced by Eric Abraham, the owner and founding producer of the Fugard Theatre, has recently won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. This is the second Academy Award for Abraham after winning the golden statuette for his film Kolya in 1996.

A black and white film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and written by himself and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Ida has earned Pawlikowski his first Oscar and is the first Polish foreign language film to win the coveted prize. Accepting the award, Pawlikowski thanked Abraham and all those involved in the making and success of the film, saying: “We make a film about silence and withdrawing from the world and the need for contemplation – and here we are, at the epicentre of world noise and attention. Fantastic – life is full of surprises.”

Ida stars Agata Kulesza, Dawid Ogrodnik and Agata Trzebuchowska. It is set in Poland in 1962, and is about a young woman on the verge of taking vows as a Catholic nun. Orphaned as an infant during the German occupation of World War ll, she must now meet her aunt. The former Communist state prosecutor and only surviving relative tells her that her parents were Jewish. The two women embark on a road trip into the Polish countryside to learn the fate of their family. Called a "compact masterpiece" and an "eerily beautiful road movie", the film has also been said to "penetrate the darkest, thorniest thickets of Polish history, reckoning with the crimes of Stalinism and the Holocaust".

Aside from winning numerous awards in Poland, Ida was selected as Best Film of 2014 by the European Film Academy and as Best Film Not in the English Language of 2014 by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

Speaking from Los Angeles, a delighted Eric Abraham said,"...It's wonderful when the underdog triumphs. A small short black and white film in Polish about two women who go on a road trip to learn about who they are and where they come from. Ida seems to have touched people across the barriers of language and culture in over thirty countries so far and restores my faith in the appetite for films that make us think and feel about the human condition. South Africa has so many such stories waiting to be told on film".

An immaculate, miraculous masterwork - Tim Robey, The Telegraph
A quietly moving beautifully shot, slow burner of a movie - Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger, Cleveland
A lovely artfully crafted little masterpiece - Dustin Chang, Twitch Film
A hypnotic, beautiful journey into a dark past - John Thomason, Palm Beach Arts Paper
A film masterpiece - David Denby, The New Yorker
Don't miss this mesmerising new film... - Julie Bramowitz, Vogue

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