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A Conversation with Carmen Pretorius

Carmen Pretorius is a Naledi and Fleur du Cap nominated musical theatre and television actress, qualified makeup artist and presenter. After getting her professional start by winning the televised High School Musical competition, she went on to star in notable productions including Mamma Mia, Footloose, Jersey Boys and most recently The Sound of Music, which sees her taking on the role of Maria. We sat down with Carmen, ahead of the final week of the production, to chat about her “metamorphic” journey with the show.

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May 23, 2018November 17, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Artscape, Cape Town, Conversation, Interview, Musical, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Pieter Toerien, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, Singer, South Africa, Television, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized, Vocalist, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Artscape, Cabaret, Candice van Litsenborgh, Canned Rice, Cape Town, Carmen Pretorius, Conversation, Footloose, High School Musical, Interview, Liesl, Makeup Artist, Mamma Mia, Maria, music, Musical, Musical Theatre, Performer, Photography, Pieter Toerien, Presenter, Singer, South Africa, Stylist, Television, The Sound of Music, TV, Woman, Women 2 Comments

A Conversation with Lamees Albertus and Widaad Albertus

Sisters Lamees and Widaad Albertus have become a force to be reckoned within the theatre industry. Currently working at The Fugard Theatre, Lamees holds the position of Theatre Manager and Associate Producer while Widaad not only holds the title of Wardrobe Supervisor and Production Assistant, but is currently also juggling the task of working as lead Costume Designer on several of the Fugard Theatre’s most anticipated upcoming shows including The Demon Bride and Significant Other. While most of their work tends to happen behind the scenes and away from the spotlight, Lamees recently had her work recognised by being featured in the Mail & Guardian’s 2017 Book of South African Women: On the Shoulders of Giants.
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May 16, 2018May 17, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Advice, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Costume Designer, Culture, Designer, Interview, Now Playing, Organisation, Photography, Producer, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, The Fugard, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, West Side Story, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Advice, Candice van Litsenborgh, Canned Rice, Cape Town, Conversation, Costume Designer, Costumes, Designer, Eric Abraham, Lamees Albertus, Mail & Guardians 2017 Book of South African Women: On the Shoulders of Giants., Photography, Producer, Production, Production Assistant, Sarafina Magazine, Significant Other, South Africa, The Demon Bride, The Fugard, Theater, Theatre, Theatre Manager, Theatre-maker, Wardrobe, Wardrobe Supervisor, Widaad Albertus, Women 2 Comments

A Conversation with Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu

Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu is an Arts Manager, Curator and Facilitator. During the last few years she has worked alongside some of South Africa’s leading arts institutions and organisations including Artscape where she spent several years heading up their Resource Center, PANSA, FTH:K and Siyasanga Cape Town Theatre Company before going on to become an independent Arts Manager. She has launched her latest project makwande.republic, a residency program set in the heart of her hometown village in the Eastern Cape. We sat down with her to chat about moving back home, creating makwande.republic and having to coin a new phrase to encompasses her multi-faceted career.
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May 2, 2018January 23, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Arts, Arts Administrator, Artscape, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Director, Engineer, Facilitator, Ideas Engineer, Interview, Organisation, Photography, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: #100AfricanReads, Advice, Arts, Arts Manager, Artscape, Cape Town, Chanel Katz, Conversation, Curator, Facilitator, Ideas Engineer, Ka Pa Tee, makwande.republic, Pansa, Photography, Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu, Woman, Women, Womxn 3 Comments

A Conversation with Diaan Lawrenson

For 13 years, actress and producer Diaan Lawrenson charmed South African audiences by starring on 7de Laan. Since leaving the series, she has gone on to star in critically acclaimed films such as Raaiselkind, Sink and her latest film Susters which is now playing in select theatres. An accomplished theatre actress, she is also the co-founder of Jester Productions, a multimedia production company that she founded alongside her husband, and fellow actor, Jody Abrahams, which focuses on facilitating, developing and producing original South African concepts. Continue reading →

April 18, 2018January 23, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Artist, Arts, Cape Town, Content Creator, Content producer, Conversation, Culture, Entertainment, Film, Filmmaker, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Producer, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Television, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, WomanTags: 7de laan, Actor, Actress, Advice, AFDA, Cape Town, Chris de Beer, Co-founder, Content Creator, Conversation, Corne van Rooyen, Diaan Lawrenson, Film, Jester Productions, Jodi Abrahams, Lecturer, Performance, Performer, Photography, Producer, Production, Quanita Adams, Raaiselkind, Series, Sewende Laan, Sink, Susters, Table Manners, Television, Theater, Theatre, TV, Women 1 Comment

A Conversation with Quanita Adams

Quanita Adams is an award-winning stage and screeen actress, vocalist and director. A four-time Fleur du Cap Theatre Award winner, she has taken on notable theatre roles including Valley Song, Boesman and Lena, Nadia Davids’ Cissie and At Her Feet, also penned by Nadia Davids, which was met with critical acclaim and has gone on to tour extensively over the last 15 years. We sat down to chat about her career and her latest film, Susters, which is now playing in select cinemas. Continue reading →

April 11, 2018June 5, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Artist, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Film, Fleur du Cap, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Theatre, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: Actor, Actress, Advice, Artist, At Her Feet, award-winner, Cape Town, Chris de Beer, Cissie, Conversation, Corne van Rooyen, Director, ER, Film, Fleur du Cap, Nadia Davids, Performer, Photography, Quanita Adams, SAFTA, Singer, South Africa, Susters, Television, Women, writer 13 Comments

A Conversation with Samantha de Romijn

Samantha de Romijn is the co-founder of The Imbewu Trust, a non-profit organisation which was established to promote the development of contemporary South African theatre and arts. She has also worked as a producer, agent, arts manager, performer, stage manager and director. Now in it’s seventh year, the SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition, a flagship project of the Imbewu Trust, was recently awarded a Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Innovation in Theatre. SCrIBE is an opportunity for South African playwrights to further develop their work. A staged reading is held for each of the finalist’s scripts, providing the chance for feedback from the industry and members of the public. An overall winner is announced at the end of the week, with one of the prizes being having the play professionally mounted for a run at a Cape Town theatre. Another writer has the chance to win The Scribblers Dream, a prize which enables a writer the opportunity to work alongside a mentor to develop their script and another writer has the chance to further workshop his or her play.
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April 4, 2018June 5, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Agent, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Fleur du Cap, Interview, Organisation, Photography, Producer, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, UncategorizedTags: Advice, Cape Town, Chanel Katz, Co-founder, Conversation, Fleur du Cap, Gaenor Artiste Management, Imbewu Trust, Paul Griffiths, Photography, Producer, Sam de Romijn, Samantha de Romijn, Scribe, Script Writing Contest, South Africa, Women Leave a comment

A Conversation with Genna Gardini

Genna Gardini is a writer and teacher. She is the author of Matric Rage, which was published in 2014 by uHlanga Press. In 2012, she was awarded the DALRO New Coin Poetry prize and was chosen as one of the Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans for 2013. She is also the co-founder of Horses’ Heads Productions and has had several of her plays produced at the National Arts Festival including WinterSweet and Scrape, both of which went on to win Standard Bank Ovation Awards. In addition, she also works as the poetry editor of Prufrock Magazine, a journal in which her own work has featured.
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March 28, 2018March 28, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Advice, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Interview, Photography, Playwright, Poet, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: Advice, Cape Town, Chris de Beer, Conversation, Dalro New Coin Poetry Prize, Editor, Genna Gardini, Matric Rage, National Arts Festival, Photography, Playwright, Poet, Poetry, Prufrock, Scrape, South Africa, Teacher, The Swell, Theater, Theatre, Uhlanga, WinterSweet, Women, writer Leave a comment

A Conversation with Jo da Silva

For the last 25 years, Jo da Silva has had an extensive career in TV, film, radio and theatre. After a decade long hiatus from theatre, she makes her much-anticipated return to the stage juggling two roles in Noël Coward’s Present Laughter presented at Theatre on the Bay before jumping into Fatal Attraction which will play Theatre on the Bay and Pieter Toerien’s Monte Casino Theatre in Johannesburg. We sat down with her to chat about the show, her career and surving portraying the “most hated woman in the history of South African television.” Continue reading →

February 28, 2018November 17, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Film, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Pieter Toerien, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Television, Theater, Theatre, Theatre on The Bay, Uncategorized, Woman, WomenTags: 7de laan, Actor, Actress, Advice, Cape Town, Conversation, Farce, Fatal Attraction, Gita McGregor, Isidingo, Jesse Kramer, Jesse Kramer Photography, Jo da Silva, Johannesburg, Monte Casino, Noel Coward, Performance, Photography, Pieter Toerien, Present Laughter, Sewende Laan, Soapie, South Africa, Television, Theater, Theatre, Theatre on The Bay, TV, Women 1 Comment

A Conversation with Sihle Ndaba

Triple threat, Sihle Ndaba is well-known to South African audiences for her award-winning role as ‘Smangele Maphumulo’ in SABC 1’s hit primetime soap Uzalo, for which she won the Simon Sabela Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2015. She is currently making a return to her musical theatre roots by starring as ‘Petal’ in The Fugard Theatre’s return season of King Kong. We sat down with her to chat about joining the illustrious company and navigating the fame that comes along with starring on South African television.
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February 21, 2018February 21, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Candice van Litsenborgh, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Dance, Interview, Musical, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, Singer, South Africa, Television, The Fugard, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized, Vocalist, Woman, WomenTags: Actor, Actress, Advice, Candice van Litsenborgh, Cape Town, Conversation, Film, King Kong, Miriam Makeba, music, Musical, Performance, Petal, Photography, Sihle Ndaba, Singer, Smangele Maphumulo, The Fugard, Theater, Theatre, TV, Uzalo, Women 1 Comment

A Conversation with Lesedi Job

Lesedi Job is an actress and director. Lesedi made her directorial debut in 2017 with Mike van Graan’s When Swallows Cry at the Market Theatre and went on to win the Sophie Mgcina Emerging Voice Award. The production, which has transferred to Cape Town, is currently running at the Baxter Theatre. An accomplished performer in her own right, Lesedi received a Naledi Theatre Award nomination for her role in Lara Foot’s Fishers of Hope. Continue reading →

February 14, 2018February 14, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Arts, Baxter, Candice van Litsenborgh, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Director, Interview, Johannesburg, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, The Baxter, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Actor, Actress, Advice, Baxter Theatre, Candice van Litsenborgh, Cape Town, Conversation, Director, Fishers of Hope, Johannesburg, Lesedi Job, Mike van Graan, Opinion, Performer, Photography, Sophie Mgcina Emerging Voice Award, South Africa, The Market Theatre, Theater, Theatre, When Swallows Cry, Women 1 Comment

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