Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde
The UCT Drama Department present Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde. Featuring our final year students, directed by Jacqui Singer.
Written in 1897, with the threat of syphilis as the backdrop it explores and comments on the sexual morals of the society of fin-de-siècleVienna.
It takes the form of a macabre ‘dance’ in which ten lovers of differing social strata are inexorably linked in a cycle of love, deceit and hypocrisy. An intricate web of relationships is formed and the various couples’ clumsy maneuvers of seduction are portrayed as both poignant and ironically humorous. The desperate struggle in the pursuit of love and happiness demonstrates an inability to communicate which reflects our own contemporary South African society.
It runs from 10th -17th May
The Playroom
7:30pm
UK Dramadepartement bied aan: Reza de Wet se Mirakel uit die Trits trilogie waarvoor sy die Hertzog prys verower het. Die produksie is vanaf 11 tot 16 Mei te siene in die Arenateater. Sandra Temmingh behartig die regie van die produksie.
Mirakel speel af in 1936, kort na die Groot Depressie, ’n tyd waarin reisende teatergeselskappe nog volop was. In hierdie verhaal besoek Danté du Pré en sy brandarm geselskap ’n dorp met hul produksie van Elkeman. Dié dorp hou egter vir hul ’n verrassing in, in die vorm van ’n verbitterde en wraaksugtige weduwee.
Alhoewel Mirakel vroeg aan die 20ste eeu afspeel, is die kwessies en temas relevant vir ons kontemporêre samelewing en meer spesifiek, die Suid-Afrikaanse teaterbedryf.
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Reza de Wet’s Mirakel
UCT Drama department presents: Reza de Wet’s Mirakel from the Trits trilogy which brought her the Hertzog prize. The production can be seen from 11 to 16 May in the Arena Theatre. Sandra Temmingh takes the director’s seat for this production.
Mirakel takes place in 1936, shortly after the Great Depression, a time in which travelling actors were still a common occurrence in South Africa. The story begins with Danté du Pré and his dirt-poor company of actors visiting a small town with their production of Everyman. This town, however, holds a surprise for the company in the form of a bitter revengeful widow.
Despite Mirakel being set in the early 20th century, the issues and themes discussed are very relevant to our contemporary society and more specifically the South African theatre industry.
Tickets are available from Webtickets.
It runs from 11th -16th May
The Arena Theatre
8pm
H.I.E. Dhlomo’s The girl who killed to save: Nongqawuse
UCT Drama department presents: H.I.E. Dhlomo’s The girl who killed to save: Nongqawuse. This Dynamic production is Directed by Mfundo Tshazibane. UNongqawuse: it is the story of Christian emergence into Xhosa society and the consequence of a ‘leap of faith’ inorder to hold on to a traditional way of life.
Under the influence of the prophet Mhlakaza and his niece Nongqawuse, whose visions became the rallying point of a society, a number of Xhosa chiefs directed their people to sacrifice their cattle and burn their crops in expectation of a return of the ancestors who would drive away the colonists. The result: widespread famine, ironically leading to tighter colonial administration, greater numbers of converts at the missions, and destitute people moving south in their thousands to become laborers or vagrants in the Emerging Colony. It was the salvation and yet the death of many.
It runs from 21st -25th May
The Arena Theatre
8pm
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