Greg Latter’s drama is about a disintegrating white academic family in Grahamstown. Death of a Colonialist tells the story of Harold Smith, an aging, eccentric, unpredictable but extremely passionate history teacher at a high school in Grahamstown. His passion is South African history, most specifically the history of the amaXhosa. Harold is at the end [...]

Theatre maker Sylvaine Strike collaborates with acclaimed writer/ dramaturge Craig Higginson.  Four children re-unite with their mother over a Friday night meal where a world of love, sibling rivalry, confused genetics, domesticity, tradition and, of course, food… is unveiled. Funny and deeply moving, this is a journey into the very heart of a family redefined [...]

Pressure is an effect which occurs when a force is applied in a direction perpendicular to the surface of an object. A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting on a print medium, such as paper, thereby transferring the ink. Artist and printmaker Senzo Shabangu is no stranger to the concept of pressure in printmaking and takes the idea [...]

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2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Georges Méliès, a founding father of cinema. Georges Méliès: A Cine-Concert presents a selection of his pioneering shorts accompanied, as they were in the 1900s, by piano improvisations and narration. Kentridge’s film Journey to the Moon, a homage to the work of Méliès, follows. The performance [...]

In preparation for The Refusal of Time (a project for Documenta 13 in Kassel, 2012, informed by discussion with the science historian Peter Galison) Kentridge worked with composer Philip Miller and award winning dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo to create Dancing with Dada. The work wrestles with our changing ideas about time, the history of [...]

Playing on Image – a music, film and performance  work – presents a live concert with music by Kentridge’s foremost musical collaborator, Philip Miller. The performance sets Miller’s music, played by Jill Richards, to films by Kentridge and collaborative films made with Deborah Bell and Robert Hodgins, including Memo (1994) and Hot-el (1997). Films by [...]

Telegrams from the Nose combines French composer François Sarhan’s original music with Kentridge’s projections, including preparatory fragments for the opera The Nose. Telegrams presents a large canvas painted by Kentridge over which is projected amorphous human shadows, small black animated silhouettes in cut-out paper, geometric shapes evoking Russian constructivism. In phase with Kentridge’s images, the [...]

In 1837, the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol wrote the short  story The Nose. A man wakes up one morning to find that his nose has escaped his face and attained a higher rank than his own. This story about both the terrors of hierarchy and the division of the self was the source text for [...]