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A Conversation with Alexis Petersen

Alexis Petersen is a UCT Performance Diploma Graduate who majored in Western Classical Voice. She has performed on various stages both nationally and internationally. Alexis has performed in several musical theatre productions including Calling Us Home, The Little Mermaid and David Kramer’s Langarm. Her opera credits include FOUR:30, Le nozze di Figaro and La traviata. With a strong passion for dance, she has also competed as a ballroom dancer, dancing under the Federation of Dance Sport South Africa. She also features as a vocalist in a unique contemporary trio called Inside Voice. Alexis is currently starring at the Baxter Theatre as Pamela in Danger in the Dark, David Kramer’s re-imagining of the Kramer/Petersen ’90s hit, Poison. Continue reading →

October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Art, Arts, Baxter, Cape Town, Conversation, Dance, Dancer, Interview, music, Musical, Now Playing, Opera, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, Singer, South Africa, The Baxter, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized, Vocalist, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Advice, Alexis Peterson, Baxter Theatre, Calling Us Home, Conversation, Danger in the Dark, David Kramer, Interview, Langarm, music, Musical, Pamela, Photography, Poison, Sarafina Magazine, Singer, Theater, Theatre, UCT, Vocalist, Western Classical Voice, Women Leave a comment

A Conversation with Lungiswa Plaatjies

Lungiswa Plaatjies is a musician, singer and composer. Born and raised in Langa Township in Cape Town, she started singing at the age of eight years old before becoming the lead vocalist of Amampondo. She has toured extensively around the world and released her first solo album, Lungiswa, in 2000. After spending time digging deeper into the foundation stones of African music and Xhosa dance (Umxhentso), Lungiswa released her second solo album, Unonkala produced by Don Laka. In 2002, she was nominated for Best Newcomer and Best Female Vocalist at the SAMA awards and was also nominated for two Kora awards. Since 2015, she has been working with Bos Theatre Productions from The Netherlands on an annual musical show called South African Road Trip. Her select theatre credits include; Heart of Redness, The Tempest for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Flower of Shembe. Lungiswa can currently be seen on stage as the featured musician in Kunene and the King at the Fugard Theatre.

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May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Interview, music, Musician, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, Singer, Songwriter, South Africa, The Fugard, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Vocalist, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Amampondo, Anthony Sher, Bos Theatre Productions, Cape Town, Conversation, Heart of Redness, Interview, John Kani, Kunene and the King, Lungiswa Plaatjies, mbira, music, Musician, Photography, RSC, Sarafina Magazine, Singer, South Africa, The Flower of Shembe, The Fugard Theatre, The Tempest, Theater, Theatre, Vocalist, Women 3 Comments

A Conversation with Lindy Abromowitz Sachs

Lindy Abromowitz Sachs is a performer and doctor. Having started her tertiary studies at UCT’s Opera School, she then changed tack completely and entered the medical world, graduating as a doctor six short years later. Whilst pursuing her medical career, she still managed to keep her love for theatre and performing alive by appearing in several films, commercials, as well as numerous musicals including Grease, The Sound of Music, Cats, Annie, District Six and the runaway hit Offbeat Broadway, which returns to Theatre on the Bay for its much anticipated fifth incarnation.

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April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Arts, Cape Town, Comedy, Conversation, Dancer, Interview, Musical, Now Playing, Opera, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, Singer, South Africa, The Fugard, Theater, Theatre, Theatre on The Bay, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Vocalist, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Actor, Actress, Anton Luitingh, Cape Town, Cheryl Abromovitz, Conversation, Dancer, Doctor, Entertainment, Kinky Boots, LAMTA, Lindy Abromowitz, music, Musical, Musical Theatre, Offbeat Broadway, Paul du Toit, Photography, Pieter Toerien, Singer, South Africa, Theater, Theatre, Theatre on The Bay, Vocalist, Women Leave a comment

A Conversation with Lukhanyiso Skosana

Lukhanyiso Skosana is an actress, performance artist, vocalist and theatre-maker. Her performing credits include Love Like Blue directed by Puleng Lange-Stewart, Khanyisile Mbongwa’s performance art piece kuDanger, Ndawo directed and written by Thapelo Tharaga and Nguvu Ya Mbegu directed by Mandla Mbothwe. To continue her collaborations with womxn of colour, she was in the dance piece Bana Ba Mobu choreographed by Tshegofatso Mabutla. She is in the continuous process of touring and reworking Womb Of Fire, a production written and performed by Rehane Abrahams and directed by Dr Sara Matchett for which she was recently awarded a Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Best Original Music Score. She continued her longtime collaboration with The MotherTongue Project by performing in their performance piece Walk in India at the ITFOK festival, at the National Arts Festival in 2018 and at Woordfees 2019. She recently choreographed her debut dance piece entitled Zinyile i’Queers and also participated in Body Politics in a durational Butoh piece titled UMGOWO. In 2018, Lukhanyiso made her directorial as well as playwriting debut with her graduation piece Inguquko.

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March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Art, Artist, Arts, Cape Town, Composer, Conversation, Culture, Dance, Dancer, Director, Interview, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, Singer, South Africa, The Baxter, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Womxn, writerTags: Actor, Actress, Advice, Director, Fleur du Cap award, Interview, Lukhanyiso Skosana, music, Nominee, Performance Art, Photography, Rehane Abrahams, Sara Matchett, Singer, Sound Designer, The Mother Tongue Project, Theater, Theatre, UCT, Vocalist, Walk, Winner, Womb of Fire, Womxn, writer 1 Comment

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 Zolani Mahola

Zolani Mahola needs no introduction. Most may know her as the lead vocalist of Freshlyground, a band whose sound, along with Zolani’s voice, has become synonymous with South Africa, going so far as to inspire an entire nation, and the world, during the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Over the years Zolani has received many accolades and traveled the globe but what might surprise you is how down-to-earth, generous and humble-spirited she is. Sarafina Magazine is proud to feature Zolani as our first Music Artist.

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December 6, 2016February 4, 2017 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Art, Arts, Conversation, Culture, Interview, music, Musician, South Africa, Uncategorized, Vocalist, WomenTags: Art, Cape Town, Conversation, Freshly Ground, inspirational, Interview, music, Musician, Singer, Vocalist, Women, Zolani Mahola 7 Comments

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