Upcoming Plays that You Don’t Want to Miss

Cape Town has a sensational theatre culture and we invite you to sample the best of the season

Cape Town is filled with theatres that you should check out, and shows that cover a range of topics and identify with many different genres. This list is simply to highlight a few upcoming shows that we think you’d enjoy and that you shouldn't miss.

Clybourne Park at The Fugard Theatre

All about race and the politics of property, this play is set in two different time periods, 1959 and 2009, and opens with white suburbanites’ reactions to a black family who move into the area. Fast forward to 2009 and witness a white couple move into the same house, which is located in a now predominantly black neighbourhood. Scathing, witty and hilarious, the Evening Standard called Norris’s hit the “the funniest play of the year”. Clybourne Park is designed as a response to A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, with the Youngsters being the inspiration for the young black couple. Get your dose of comical reality with this uproariously uncomfortable production.

DATES: 16 August - 1 October 2016
VENUE: The Fugard Theatre, District Six

TICKETS: Tickets are available online through Computicket.com and range from R120p/p to R240p/p.

Lily’s Lament at The Rosebank Theatre
Lily’s Lament follows the real-life tragic story of three mineworkers who were trapped in a mine shaft when the infrastructure collapsed at the Lily Mine in Johannesburg on Friday, 5 February 2016. The rescue efforts were unsuccessful. The production is a three person play focusing on what could have gone on inside the trapped elevator which eventually became the final resting place of three hardworking men. Lily’s Lament seeks to explore the empty moments that inevitably occur when one is stuck waiting for death. Luthando Mthi, Khotso K Manaka and Philasande Goniwe make up the three-person cast.

DATES: 27 July - 2 August 2016
VENUE: The Rosebank Theatre, Rosebank
TICKETS: Tickets are available online through Webtickets.co.za, and cost R100p/p. 

The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek at the Fugard Theatre

Athol Fugard’s international hit comes to South Africa for a four week stint at The Fugard Theatre. This play chronicles the experience of self-taught artist Nukain Mabuza who works as a farmhand during South Africa’s pre-liberation years. Mabuza, with help from his young companion Bokkie (who then becomes Jonathan Sejake years later), creates a garden of painted flowers on a koppie at Revolver Creek. The problems  start when the wife of the white land owner Elmarie Kleynhans gets involved and makes demands about the paintings. The production explores the limits of human experience in an increasingly politically turbulent climate. The proudly South African cast features Tshamano Sebe, Sne Dladla and Anna-Mart van der Merwe as the protagonists of the story.

DATES: 23 August - 24 September 2016
VENUE: The Fugard Theatre, District Six
TICKETS: Tickets are available online through computicket.com, and range in price from R140p/p to R180p/p depending on where you elect to sit.

The Inconvenience of Wings at The Baxter Theatre

Based on the best-selling novel Addictive Thinking by Abraham J Twerski, this production delves into themes of bi-polar disorder, friendship, dysfunction, addiction and control. The Inconvenience of Wings stars Jennifer Steyn, Andrew Buckland and Mncedisi Shabangu, and is written by Lara Foot, the director and CEO of the Baxter Theatre. It develops on a “landscape of memory and dreams” as it follows the story of Sara, a woman with bi-polar disorder, and her husband Andrew as they try to navigate daily trials and tribulations.

DATES: 12 July - 12 August 2016

VENUE: The Baxter Theatre, Rondebosch

TICKETS: Available online through Computicket.com, and they range in price from R80p/p - R150p/p. 

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