Come view some fun-filled, high-quality physical theatre with three of the ASSITEJ SA Family Fare productions. Physical theatre often lends itself to comedy and this is seen in the fast-paced and thoroughly entertaining Get Kraken, written by Jon Keevy and directed by award-winning director, Kim Kerfoot.
Come view some fun-filled, high-quality physical theatre with three of the ASSITEJ SA Family Fare productions. Physical theatre often lends itself to comedy and this is seen in the fast-paced and thoroughly entertaining Get Kraken, written by Jon Keevy and directed by award-winning director, Kim Kerfoot.
With a comic book style, Kerfoot demonstrates that it is possible to create virtually any kind of reality onstage if you use the actors’ bodies, voices and imaginations to the full.
This comic book style holds the audiences attention by zooming into details, then panning out to long shots.
The audience is active in bringing the production to life, by filling in the details that are being sketched on the stage, with their own rich imaginative detail.
It was a Silver Ovation winner in 2013 and has been a crowd-pleaser at a number of family festivals.
Developed through ASSITEJ SA and Theatre Arts Admin Collective's Inspiring a Generation programme, its development was partly funded by the Distell Foundation.
Mime maestro, Richard Antrobus, returns to Grahamstown with Being Norm.
Being Norm relies on classical physical theatre techniques, building them around a contemporary, very humorous story about a guy – Norm – who is just so very averagely normal that he sets a new standard for normality.
The piece is a fast-paced display of virtuosity, with Richard creating his character’s rather unfortunate life in hilarious detail.
Like most clowns, Norm is both vulnerable and invincible – we laugh at him and with him – but ultimately he triumphs despite the catastrophe that seems to follow inevitably in his wake.
Being Norm is also part of the ASSITEJ SA Theatre4Youth programme and can be booked for performances at schools, along with a physical theatre workshop by Antrobus himself.
Theatre for Africa veteran, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi's new creation, Memory, is based on a story by Nicholas Ellenbogen.
Using Theatre for Africa's signature style of flawless animal mimicry, this piece has a more powerful and serious subject – that of humanity’s relationship to the elephant, in all of its complexity.
The animals are beautifully realised and the story is engaging throughout. The piece has played successfully at ASSITEJ Family Festivals and the Darling Voorkamerfees.
Produced by new company Here Manje, the piece features AFDA graduates Luke Brown, Samantha Davies and Nomtha Rajuili.
For more information about ASSITEJ Family Fare, contact Nadia Woodward on either theatre4youth@assitej.org.za or 021 822 0070/1/2, or go to: assitej.org.za
