A scene from French-Canadian playwright Suzanne Lebeau’s award-winning play The Ogreling (photograph below).
IvyInk, in association with ASSITEJ South Africa and FreeVoice Productions, has published the English and isiXhosa texts of play – translated into English by Shirley Tepperman and into Xhosa by Sindiwe Magona.
A scene from French-Canadian playwright Suzanne Lebeau’s award-winning play The Ogreling (photograph below).
IvyInk, in association with ASSITEJ South Africa and FreeVoice Productions, has published the English and isiXhosa texts of play – translated into English by Shirley Tepperman and into Xhosa by Sindiwe Magona.
The text has been designed with the Senior Phase curriculum in mind, and activities worked into the text connect the play to Languages, Life Skills and Creative Arts, in creative and interesting ways.
Peppered with illustrations from the acclaimed stage production this is a playtext to introduce first time theatre readers to dramatic texts in an accessible and interesting way.
ASSITEJ South Africa will be hosting a Theatre4Youth Forum at the Port Elizabeth Athenaeum tomorrow from 9am to midday to share its experiences in creating access to theatre for all children and engage with fellow artists and educators in the field.
ASSITEJ South Africa Theatre4Youth Fora aims to create an active dialogue between theatre practitioners, artists of related fields, educators, government, funders and other supporting bodies in order to engage in how theatre and the arts can serve and support the education system.
The forum pays attention to the needs of educators, learners, theatre companies and artists, specifically in relation to current obstacles within the Eastern Cape. The forum will be made up of two panel discussions.
The first panel will discuss the experiences of artists performing for schools audiences and engaging with the education sector and will be chaired by Monde Ngonyama, General Manager of the Port Elizabeth Opera House. Ngonyama has a long and involved history with the performing arts sector.
The second discussion will be chaired by Life Orientation and Creative Arts specialist Gwendoline Fourie and will go over theatre and its relations to the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) as well as potential points of theatrical intervention in other subjects.
Artists will also be informed about opportunities relating to the fact that South Africa has won the bid for the 2017 ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival to be held for the first time on African soil, in Cape Town, and will soon be able to apply to participate either through showcasing productions, or through engaging with a number of related projects.
This forum forms part of the ASSITEJ South Africa’s Theatre4Youth project which is supported by Unesco’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) and the Unesco 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, and is also supported by the National Arts Council as part of ASSITEJ Congress Incubation.
