From the Women’s Humanity Arts Festival to the opening of a new gallery, the Mail & Guardian round-ups this week’s hot-ticket events.
Cape Town
♦ In celebration of women’s month and women empowerment, Artscape Theatre is hosting the Women’s Humanity Arts Festival 2015. Focusing on “humanity”, the festival will take place in various venues in the theatre complex. Stage productions will address humanness in our society. Some of the productions include Bittersoet, an Afrikaans translation of Deon Opperman’s Sweet Sorrows; Cold Case, a tribute to anti-apartheid political activist Dulcie September, who was assassinated in 1988; and two pieces by the Unmute Dance Company, directed by Themba Mbuli.
Denise Newman as Dulcie September in Cold Case
WHEN July 31 to August 15. WHERE Artscape Theatre, Cape Town 8001. COST R80. Tickets available at Computicket or on 021 421 7695. INFO Visit
♦ A new gallery is opening in Cape Town with a group exhibition titled Cape of Good Hope. It features artwork showing different aspects of the city, such as history and architecture. The artists include Fayrooz Abader, Andrew Hart Adler, Chris Auret, Thomas Cartwright, Rayaan Cassiem, Michael Chandler, Katrine Claassens, Adriaan Diedericks, Robert Hamblin, Daya Heller, Lizza Littlewort, Johnson Tsoku Maela, Jenny Parsons, Khaya Sineyile and Karen Wykerd.
WHEN August 5 to 28. WHERE 99 Loop Street, Cape Town 8001. INFO Visit
♦ The Cape Town City Ballet will perform in a dance production by Marc Goldberg titled The Vortex, which is a dance adaptation of Noel Coward’s controversial play of a similar title. The production deals with themes such as drug addiction in 1920’s high society, adultery, ageing and dysfunctional family dynamics in the characters David and Florence Lancaster’s home.
WHEN Until August 8. WHERE Theatre on the Bay, 1 Link Road, Camps Bay, Cape Town 8005. TIME 8pm and 3pm. COST R100 to R200. Tickets available at Computicket.
via Mail & Guardian
