A host of local talent, including Andrew Buckland, Liezl de Kock, Gavin Krastin and Richard Antrobus, will be taking their award-winning National Arts Festival productions to the inaugural Cape Town Fringe festival at the end of this month.
A host of local talent, including Andrew Buckland, Liezl de Kock, Gavin Krastin and Richard Antrobus, will be taking their award-winning National Arts Festival productions to the inaugural Cape Town Fringe festival at the end of this month.
The artists are literally putting their bodies on the line in a wide-range of physical theatre and performance art productions from 25 September to 5 October at the Cape Town Fringe.
This new arts showcase has been brought to life through a partnership between the National Arts Festival and the City of Cape Town and supported by Standard Bank and MNet.
De Kock stars in two shows. She performs with Buckland in A Conspiracy of Clown's Crazy in Love, a gut-wrenching tragi-comedy about love, madness and skin. She created and performs in Piet se Optelgoed, a mad, warped exploration of the dark underbelly of society.
Both plays scooped Silver Ovation Awards at this year's Festival. Crazy in Love was recently named a Top Ten production at the Amsterdam Fringe. Krastin’s performance piece #omnomnom also won a Silver Ovation Award at this year's festival. It is a provocative piece in which audience members are invited to partake in various dishes placed on Krastin’s naked body to represent the artist as human platter.
Antrobus, who hails from Grahamstown, performs in his family show, Being Norm, a fun-filled adventure about humanity's struggle with the universe that uses mime, vocals and clowning to tell the story, Movement and physical expression are the central thrust in these powerful works of performance art and physical theatre.
Performers draw directly on the use of the body as a communicative device to translate the narrative thread.
Other highlights of the programme include Ameera Patel’s Whistle Stop, another NAF Silver Ovation Award winner described as a tale of love that interweaves romance, insecurity, doubt and infatuation and Mick Jagger Is My Nightmare by Marius Mensink, described as a “push-me-pull-you punch-up” with the persona of global rock icon and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.
For more information, to view the programme or make a booking go online to: capetownfringe.co.za.
