National Arts Festival – Sarafina Magazine

A Q&A with Sue Diepeveen

Sue Diepeveen is an actor, theatre practitioner and the owner of The Drama Factory in Somerset West. Her new show, So You Want To Be A Trophy Wife? is available to stream as part of this year’s virtual National Arts Festival. As the owner of The Drama Factory, Sue is heavily involved in mentoring programmes for young actors and is committed to ensuring a safe and affordable space for new work to see the light of day. In the midst of the national lockdown, Sue has spent the last few months creating her show while also dealing with the unfortunate impact of the global pandemic on her theatre.

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July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Arts, Cape Town, Director, Performer, Playwright, Producer, Q&A, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: Actor, Actress, Cape Town, Director, Interview, Lockdown, National Arts Festival, Producer, Q&A, So You Want to be a Trophy Wife, South Africa, Sue Diepeveen, The Drama Factory, Theater, Theatre, vNAF, Wynne Bredenkamp Leave a comment

A Conversation with Tiisetso Mashifane wa Noni

Tiisetso Mashifane wa Noni is a South African playwright, theatre director and performer. With a Bachelor of the Arts in Political Science, Philosophy and Dramatic Arts from Rhodes University and a Bachelor of the Arts (Hons) in Directing for Stage, Writing for Film and Avant-garde Film from the University of Cape Town, she attempts to make provocative work that deals with themes of violence, sexuality, race and history within a contemporary South African setting. As a playwright and director, her debut play, Sainthood has received a Standard Bank Ovation Award and a Fleur du Cap nomination and is the subject of her TEDxYouth Cape Town Talk, ‘Another Conversation for the Dinner Table?’. Following a successful run at the National Arts Festival and at Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Sainthood makes its way to the Baxter Theatre for a limited engagement.

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February 6, 2019February 6, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Artist, Arts, Baxter, Cape Town, Choreographer, Conversation, Culture, Director, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Playwright, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, The Baxter, Theater, Theatre, Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Theatre Awards, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: Actor, Actress, Advice, Baxter Theatre, Cape Town, Chanel Katz, Conversation, Director, Grahamstown, Interview, National Arts Festival, Ovation Award, Performer, Photography, Playwright, Rhodes, Sainthood, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Theater, Theatre, Tiisetso Mashifane wa Noni, UCT, Women, writer 4 Comments

A Conversation with Thembela Madliki

Thembela Madliki is a theatre-maker and director. Her credits include Galela, My Boetie is ‘n Danser, Bayephi and Nyanga. She has showcased work at The National Arts Festival, The Cape Town Fringe Festival and The KKNK. Earlier this year, she was named as one of the recipients of Theatre Arts Admin Collective’s Emerging Theatre Director’s Bursary. Her bursary piece, Where She Walked will debut at Theatre Arts Admin from October 28th until November 3rd.
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October 24, 2018October 24, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Artist, Arts, Cape Town, Cape Town Fringe Festival, Conversation, Culture, Director, Interview, Now Playing, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Theater, Theatre, Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: Bayephi, Cape Town, Cape Town Fringe Festival, Caroline Calburn, Chanel Katz, Conversation, Emerging Theatre Directors Bursary, ETDB, Galela, Interview, KKNK, My Boetie is n Danser, National Arts Festival, Photography, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Theatre, Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Theatremaker, Thembela Madliki, where she walked, Women 1 Comment

A Conversation with Kate Pinchuck

Kate Pinchuck is an actor, writer and stand-up comedian. Her credits include Athol Fugard’s My Children! My Africa! at Artscape, the critically acclaimed all-female Taming of the Shrew at Maynardville directed by Tara Notcutt and the Ovation Award winning Gaslight at the National Arts Festival Fringe directed by Laine Butler. Kate has been rising up in the comedy scene in Cape Town and Joburg. She was featured in the 2017 Next Generation Showcase at Grand West, was a semi-finalist in the 2017 Savanna Show Us Your Apples competition and performed in the televised 2018 Comics Choice Awards Newcomer Showcase at the Soweto Theatre. She has performed numerous times at the National Arts Festival Fringe in productions such as With/Hold, Jack & Jill which she wrote and Lexi Meier’s Standard Bank Ovation Award-winning immersive installation, Down to a sunless sea. Following its award-winning run at the National Arts Festival, her one-woman show, Medusa Incarnate will make its Cape Town debut at the Alexander Bar in September. Continue reading →

August 29, 2018September 6, 2018 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Cape Town, Comedian, Comedy, Conversation, Interview, Maynardville, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Playwright, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, Shakespeare, South Africa, The Alexander Bar, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: Actor, Actress, Cape Town, Comedian, Comedy, Conversation, Creator, Dara Beth, Kate Pinchuck, Lucy Brittany Woolley, Medusa Incarnate, National Arts Festival, Ovation Award, Performance, Performer, Photography, Physical Theatre, The Furies, The Taming of The Shrew, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Women, writer 4 Comments

A Conversation with Klara van Wyk

Klara van Wyk is a performer and theatre-maker. During the 2018 National Arts Festival, she’ll be pulling double duty by performing in two productions. First up, she stars alongside Buhle Ngaba in Penny Youngleson’s La Chair de ma Chair followed by her one-woman show, You Suck! (and other inescapable truths), which has been on back-to-back sell-out tours across the country and earned her a Fleur du Cap nomination. Her dedication to anti-bullying campaigns and clowning workshops with young South Africans has earned her a unique position in the local performance landscape where she occupies roles in social justice and entrepreneurship as well as artistic expression. After studying under Master Clown Philippe Gaulier in Paris, she is currently completing her PhD in Clowning at Stellenbosch University.

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July 4, 2018May 19, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Fleur du Cap, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, WomxnTags: Actor, Actress, Advice, Buhle Ngaba, Cape Town, Clown, Clowning, Fleur du Cap, Gaulier, Gerard Bester, Grahamstown, Klara van Wyk, La chair de ma chair, Lucy Brittany Woolley, National Arts Festival, Penny Youngleson, Philippe Gaulier, Photography, Physical Theatre, Pretina, Pretina de Jager, South Africa, Theater, Theatre, You Suck 1 Comment

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 Sara Matchett

Sara Matchett is a director, theatre-maker and lecturer. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance from the University of Cape Town where she currently resides as a senior lecturer in the Department of Drama. As co-founder and Artistic Director of The MotherTongue Project, a women’s arts collective, Sara has experience in the field of theatre in South Africa, Singapore, India, Kenya and Indonesia as a theatre-maker, performer, director and facilitator. Her latest directorial endeavor, Womb of Fire, which reunites her with her “soul collaborator” and fellow MotherTongue Project co-founder, Rehane Abrahams, is now playing at the Baxter Theatre. Continue reading →

April 25, 2018November 17, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Artist, Arts, Baxter, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Director, Interview, Now Playing, Organisation, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, The Baxter, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: Baxter, Candice van Litsenborgh, Cape Town, Conversation, Director, Draupadi, Fitzmaurice voicework, Groote Catrijn, Interview, MotherTongue, National Arts Festival, Photography, Rehane Abrahams, Sara Matchett, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, The Mother Tongue Project, Theater, Theatre, UCT, What the Water Gave Me, Womb of Fire, Women, Woordfees, WoordTroFees, Zara 5 Comments

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

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