June 2018 – Sarafina Magazine

A Conversation with Chuma Sopotela

Chuma Sopotela is a multi-award-winning actor, director, choreographer and performance artist. She has recently been named as the 2018 Standard Bank Young Artist for Performance Art. Her stage credits include Karoo Moose for which she received the 2007 Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Best Actress, Waiting for the Barbarians, U nyamo alunampumlo and Mamela Nyamza’s Rock to the Core. We sat down with her to discuss her career, being named the Standard Bank Young Artist for Performance Art and her upcoming production for the National Arts Festival, Indlulamthi.

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June 27, 2018June 27, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Artist, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Dancer, Festival, Fleur du Cap, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: #NAF18, Actor, Actress, Chuma Sopotela, Conversation, Director, Grahamstown, Indlulamthi, Interview, Jesse Kramer Photography, Karoo Moose, National Arts Festival, Performance, Performance Art, Photography, Rock to the Core, Standard Bank Young Artist, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Women, writer 5 Comments

A Conversation with Lucy Tops

Lucy Tops is a singer, songwriter and actress. As a vocalist, she has released several songs and CD’s and performs in the singing duo The Romantix alongside her husband, Alexander Tops. Over the last few years, Lucy has dazzled audiences by starring in several hit productions including Funny Girl, The Rocky Horror Show, Bar None for which she received a Fleur du Cap nomination and Shakespeare in Love which returns to the Fugard Theatre later this year. However, it her latest role in the South African premiere of Joshua Harmon’s critically acclaimed Broadway play, Significant Other, that has audiences seeing her tackle a leading role and making it her own.
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June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Dancer, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, Shakespeare, Singer, Songwriter, South Africa, The Fugard, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Absolucy, Advice, Alex Tops, alexander tops, Bad Jews, Bar None, Cape Town, Conversation, Dancer, Fleur du Cap, Funny Girl, Greg Karvellas, Jesse Kramer Photography, Joshua Harmon, Lucy Tops, Nominee, Performer, Shakespeare in Love, Significant Other, Singer, South Africa, The Fugard, The Romantix, Theater, Theatre, Vocalist, Waterfront Theater College, Women 1 Comment

A Conversation with Lynita Crofford

Lynita Crofford is an actress, theatre-maker and lecturer who has starred in more than 50 Film and TV projects. With an equally impressive theatre resume to boot, she received a 2013 Fleur du Cap nomination for her role as Emily Hobhouse in An Audience with Miss Hobhouse. Earlier this year Lynita charmed Cape Town audiences by starring in Tara Notcutt’s all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew. She is about to begin performances as Alice B. Toklas in Gertrude Stein and a Companion which will have a limited run at the Alexander Bar later this month.

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June 13, 2018June 12, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Art, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, The Alexander Bar, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Actor, Actress, Advice, Alexander Bar, An Audience with Miss Hobhouse, Cape Town, Chris Weare, Conversation, Film, Fleur du Cap, Gertrude Stein and a Companion, Lecturer, Love Me Tinder, Lucy Brittany Woolley, Lynita Crofford, Nominee, Performance, Photography, South Africa, Taming of the Shrew, Television, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, TV, Violet Online, Women Leave a comment

A Conversation with Margot Wood

Margot Wood is an actress, director, theatre-maker and producer. She is the founder of Anex Theatre Productions, a company which has been running for over a decade. Most recently, Cape Town audiences saw Margot star in Wynne Bredenkamp’s critically acclaimed production, At The Edge of the Light, which will run at the 2018 National Arts Festival. Following a run at the Drama Factory earlier this year, her latest directorial project, Dario Fo’s A Woman Alone and Other Female Parts comes to the Alexander Bar for a limited run. Continue reading →

June 6, 2018February 18, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Dancer, Director, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, The Alexander Bar, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, WomenTags: A Woman Alone and Other Female Parts, Alexander Bar, Anex Theatre Productions, At The Edge of The Light, Cape Town, Conversation, Dario Fo, Director, Margot Wood, The Drama Factory, Theatermaker, Theatre, Theatre-maker, Women, Wynne Bredenkamp 1 Comment

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