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A Conversation with Naledi Majola

Naledi Majola is an actor, performance-maker and sound designer. In 2018, she was seen on stage in Tara Notcutt’s historic all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew and in Stream, a multimedia performance work led by Jennifer Steyn at the Baxter Theatre. She makes her feature film debut later this year in The Banana Splits. Her performance work, Where is the black samurai? debuted at Arcade, a durational live art platform curated by Gavin Krastin, and was most recently performed at the 2018 ICA Live Art Festival. Naledi also designs sound for performance, having recently done so for her own work, as well as AMES, written and directed by Andi Colombo in 2018 and the upcoming production of Tales from the Garden written by Ameera Conrad, which will run at the Baxter Theatre’s Masambe Theatre followed by a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival later this year.
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May 9, 2019May 22, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Art, Artist, Arts, Baxter, Cape Town, Composer, Conversation, Culture, Designer, Interview, music, Musician, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, Sound Design, Sound Designer, South Africa, The Baxter, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Actor, Actress, Ameera Conrad, Ames, Cape Town, Composer, Conversation, ICA Live Art Festival, Interview, Kathleen Stephens, music, Naledi Majola, Performance, Performance Artist, Photography, Sarafina Magazine, Sound Design, Sound Designer, Soundscape, South Africa, Stream, Tales from the Garden, The banana splits, The Taming of The Shrew, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, UCT, Where is the black samurai? 4 Comments

Through The Lens: The Taming of The Shrew

A historic production of Shakespeare’s popular comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, will be presented at the Maynardville Open-Air Theatre, directed by Tara Notcutt and featuring an all-female cast and creative team. Award-winning director Notcutt is making history with something never before seen on a South African stage: an all-female version of a Shakespeare play. She leads some of South Africa’s most celebrated actresses in a version of The Taming of the Shrew like it has never been seen before: a meeting of classic text with modern twists, including lip-synching, 90s fashion, and an all-female cast playing men and playing women, supported by an all-female creative team. This production also makes history as Notcutt becomes the 5th women in 61 years to direct a Shakespearian production at Maynardville. We were invited to attend the cast’s first day of rehearsals and get a sneak peak at this groundbreaking production.

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January 24, 2018January 24, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Arts, Artscape, Cape Town, Choreographer, Director, Maynardville, Performer, Photo Series, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, Shakespeare, South Africa, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Through The Lens, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: 2018, Alicia McCormick, All-female production, Ameera Conrad, Ann Juries, Buhle Ngaba, Cape Town, Cleo Notcutt, Daneel van der Walt, Dara Beth, Dianne Simpson, History-Making, Jesse Kramer, Jo Glanville, Kate Pinchuk, Kathleen Stephens, Lynita Crofford, Mariechen Vosloo, Masali Baduza, Maynardville, Naledi Majola, Open Air Theatre, Photo Series, Photography, Ronel Jordaan, Shakespeare, South Africa, Tara Notcutt, The Taming of The Shrew, Theater, Theatre, Women, Womxn 8 Comments

A Conversation with Ameera Conrad

Ameera Conrad is a writer, director, actress and one of the Theatre Arts Admin Collective Emerging Young Director’s bursary winners. Currently she is starring in The Fall at The Baxter, a play which she also helped workshop and co-directs. Her new play Reparation, which she has written and will direct, will be produced later this year. Her resume is already impressive but what may surprise many is that Ameera graduated from UCT less than a year ago.

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October 27, 2016September 2, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Art, Arts, Artscape, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Interview, Now Playing, The Alexander Bar, The Baxter, Theater, Theatre, Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Uncategorized, WomenTags: Actress, Ameera Conrad, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Director, empowerment, inspiring, Interview, Performer, Politics, Reparation, South Africa, The Fall, Theater, Theatre, Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Women, writer 19 Comments

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