Internationally acclaimed productions at Artscape
'Hatched' together with 'I Stand Corrected', a collaborative work Mamela Nyamza created with Moijisola Adebayo, are some of the highlights of this year's festival. Both have been performed to critical acclaim throughout Africa and Europe
Hatched, which launches on Wednesday 6 August, is an ever-evolving autobiographical work. For theatre goers who have seen her earlier productions, these performances will bring them up to date with Nyamza's life as a mother and as an artist. The performance was part of Infecting the City in March, and has also been performed inJohannesburg, Amsterdam and Paris before being adapted for theArtscape theatre environment.
The show was first performed and funded by the National Arts Council (NAC) and the Raymond Ackerman Family Foundation when her son Amkele Mandla was nine years old. He was part of the premier at the New Dance Festival in Johannesburg. Each show is reinvented as he grows and he joins her again as a 14 year old in this production.
The production seeks to convey deeply personal and challenging issues of culture, tradition and a woman's evolving sexuality within the customary rites and rituals of marriage, until she realises her true identity. The show was nominated for best visual performance at the Out of the BoxFestival 2010.
Dates: 6 Aug at 20:30 and 8 Aug at 17:00: Bookings at Computicket.
I Stand Corrected is a powerful story told through haunting and sometimes absurdly comical physical theatre, with songs, dance, music and drama. Created by Mojisola Adebayo and Mamela Nyamza, this is the first collaboration by these two outstanding international artists. After its debut at Artscape as part of the Women's Month celebration in 2012, the show went to London where it was nominated for six London Off West End Theatre awards including best director, best play and best choreography.
Funded by the British Council and Artscape, the show has received accolades wherever it has been performed both nationally and internationally. The production has also evolved from its original script in response to homophobic, transphobic, hate rape, murder and women's issues seen across the country since its inception. But it is alsoa beautiful, uplifting memorial to survivors and those who are gone. Following these performances the show goes to the Singapore Arts Festival.
Details: 7 Aug at 20:15, 8 Aug at 20:15 abd 9 Aug at 20:15: Bookings at Computicket
Date: 06 August 2014 to 09 August 2014Time: 17:00
Venue: Artscape Theatre, Cape Town
Cost: R80