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DOP
Scholtz se Dop is die verhaal van Frank Venter, die spreekwoordelike man op straat. Een van duisende daarbuite wat min mense ooit sal ken en wat nog minder sal onthou. Soos elke mens het Frank 'n storie, maar niemand luister na sy storie nie. Frank (André Odendaal) sit in 'n kroeg. Dis sy verjaardag. Buiten vir die kroegman, Tim (Wilhelm van der
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HOUSE RULES with Mpho Popps (FREE EVENT)
SA Home Loans presents HOUSE RULES - the lighter side of living at home. Watch Mpho Popps give his hilarious take on sharing iKhaya past the point of comfort. *Note: This will be a recorded comedy performance, and there may be interruptions. By booking for & attending this free event, the audience acknowledges and accepts that footage of them may appear in SA
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Indigo View presents: ORIGINALS
In 2015 the Advanced Actors Academy began and the two plays have actors, writers, directors and producers who partook in the academy’s training course. This evening of ORIGINALS was initiated by Steven Feinstein as a vehicle to further develop and extend new skills in directing, producing and writing for the stage. Feinstein has mentored each production but allowed the development
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Mirage
Following the success of this show's debut earlier this year, we are bringing it back for another run!A sketch comedy about the fabulous, stylish and independent serial Maid of Honour Mandisa Sithole. While she is busy creating unforgettable weddings for her close friends and clientele, everyone around her, especially her nagging mother, wonder when it’ll be her day. Bonolo calls
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OUR FIRST EVER ZOOM-PROV SHOW
It's time for our first ever ZOOM-PROV show with a live audience. Is it possible to do improv in the time of Lockdown you say? We'll when the answer is always to SAY YES, we had to find a way to play. It's adapted games and the same old players and it's going to be one hell of a lot of fun! Join
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Man Up
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Sing Happy
In her first professional solo cabaret venture, actor-singer Megan van Wyk (Simply Broadway, Shrek Jr the Musical) dedicates a night of music and storytelling to some feel-good material ranging from well-known jazz standards to some of Broadway's best-loved tunes and even a sprinkling of re-imagined modern pop songs. The charming Daniel Geddes (A Handful of Keys, Black) joins van Wyk
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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
When “The Search for Intelligent Signs of Life in the Universe” first played on Broadway in the 80’s, it was an instant bestseller and won numerous awards. Described as a “hilarious critique of modern society … sidesplitting ….. so vibrant, so alive, so beloved …”, this timeless piece is as relevant today as ever. Wickedly funny, wildly satirical and bravely poignant,
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AMATEUR HOUR
Ahead of the shows' tour to Perth Fringe World (Aus), catch a very short run of it at POPArt this Feb! From the creators of The Epicene Butcher and Other Stories For Consenting Adults, comes a show with fewer words in its title, but more puppetry. A lurid, but loving celebration of rank amateurism and the remote outer reaches of show business,
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FRUIT
* WINNER : Best Production at the Baxter Zabalaza Play Festival in 2015"Fruit follows the fraught life of a young girl from early childhood through to her formative years. Her experiences are commonplace in a country ravished by violence, and without any sentimentality she exposes her life and the lives of others to the audience.The 14-year-old Matlakala lives in a
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GROSS INDECENCY
Gross Indecency is hosted by Rita Haywire and Lana Turna-Me-Over. It is the true story of a very big queer party held in Forest Town, 1966. A police raid led to stringent new homophobic laws (part of the Immorality Act) and the infamous ‘’3 men at a party” clause – notunlike the house arrest laws that considered 3 people or more
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WORKSHOP: IMPROV FOR BEGINNERS
Join us for a full day intermediate workshop in the art of saying YES with two skilled and experienced improvisors: Toni Morkel and Hayleigh Evans. Whether you're looking to perform improv, or just use the skills to hone your acting craft, this full day workshop will give you the insight and the rules to play the game in the moment.Space is
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The Comrade
It’s two weeks since Patrick “THE COMRADE” Ngubo; an iconic freedom fighter of Dinkonaneng, passed on with no burial in place yet. Two friends have taken it upon themselves to raise funds for his burial. Along their journey they unravel mysteries, secrets, enemies and close friends who have been instrumental in his death.When they realize that the village is angry
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Medusa Incarnate
She’s a bad bitch with snakes for hair and a glance that turns men to stone, but literally only gets two lines in most mythology textbooks. Basically, her Wikipedia needs a serious update.Standard Bank Ovation Award-winning Medusa Incarnate is a contemporary retelling of the Greek Medusa myth. Except, Medusa’s dead now and (spoiler alert!) so are you. Don’t panic -
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THE BOX COMEDY
#theboxcomedy is a monthly stand up comedy gig hosted at the POPArt Theatre on the last Sunday of every month. Hosted in very proud partnership with our friends at Goliath&Goliath – the Box gives you the chance to catch some of the biggest names in SA comedy for the price of R50!Always big names, always a party. Check our social media for this
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The Island
The Island is an apartheid-era drama, inspired by a true story. Set in an unnamed prison clearly based on South Africa's notorious Robben Island, the play focuses on two cellmates who spend their days performing futile physical labor and nights rehearsing in their cell for a performance of Sophocles' Antigone, paralleling Antigone's situation and the situation of black political prisoners.After successful runs in Cape Town in
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Stuart Lightbody : Devilish
They say that the greatest trick that the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn’t exist. Well, Stuart Lightbody remains unconvinced. Devilish is a brand new show from the creators of the multi-award winning Illusive, which won a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, and the Creative Award at the Prague Fringe Festival. Filled with
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Nina Hastie : Thuma Nina
A one woman stand up comedy show, written and performed by Nina Hastie is a story of how Nina has stumbled through her life and democracy in South Africa managing to offend everyone, despite her very best intentions. The show title, ‘Thuma Nina’’ is a play on the phrase ‘Thuma MINA” which was used by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his 2017
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Ashasie
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T.O & Ma-7
"Usathane always walks with a friend" "A Story of Two Halves" inspired by downplayed jealousy in friendship. These two boys who grew up together with a notion of being best friends but really don't have the same intentions for their "brotherly" friendship. One is from a non privileged background "To" and "Ma-7" is from a rather affording wealthy family. T. O
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WOW POETRY SLAM
World of Words is an intimate poetry session that happens every last Sunday of the month and it aims to cultivate the creative culture within the community where young artists can grow and thrive in their craft. The world is known for its immense artistic experience that inspires innovative thinking through creativity World of Words will be hosting its first
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Elzabé Zietsman: Bentel and I
Sometimes he plays the piano half naked, sometimes he does it in drag and sometimes he likes to be quite formal, but never, ever is he boring. Join Tony Bentel and I, Elzabé Zietsman, at POPArt as we play and sing songs that make us smile, make us cry, make us laugh and make us sigh.R 120 online. R 140
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I GREW UP IN A CULT
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Dani and the Lion
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BOOK MARKS
A tragi-comedy about friendship, racism, decolonization (and reading) on the wrong side of the rainbow.Twenty years have passed since the 1980’s Struggle, and when three men used to live and work together. Over time they have gone their separate ways and much has changed. On a summer’s evening in Melville, they come together to launch a book club where they
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THENX presents: AZA-NYA IS FIVE TO
** STANDARD BANK OVATION AWARD WINNER: NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2016AZA-NYA IS FIVE TO is Thenx' latest sketch comedy with explores the current state of the nation through satire and parody. Inspired by comedy gems like The Pure Monate Show, Late Night News with Loyiso Gola and The Catherine Tate Show, it uses satire and parody to capture the nuances of everyday
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IMPROV PLAY OFF
What better way to start the week than to improv(e) your mood with some awesome improv at POPArt! Join us for our lit series of Improv Battles this time with POPArt Improv versus Causing a Scene Players include Avril Cummins, Ncumisa Ndimendi, James Cairns, Toni Morkel, Mpho Osei Tutu, Hayleigh Evans, Baeletsi Tsatsi, Peter Thornhill, Heather Van Niekerk and Eduardo Cachucho It's fun, it's madness
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Complexion
Complexion is about a girl who grows up in the township facing different challenges in different stages of her life. We see the world through her eyes from the time she is born. We are introduced to the various people in her life who shape and mould the complexities of her complexion. Our Humanity is strongly influenced by the apparatus
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SAVAGE/LOVE
“It was in a moment between two thoughts” that I fell in love with you; erased you. Savage/Love is a series of musings on what love looks, sounds, feels, and tastes like. It takes the whirlwind of emotions of the ever-uncertain space into a physical performance that is at once brutal and gentle; and also plays on the terse space in-between.The
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Naked Girls Reading
JOIN US FOR THE VERY FIRST JOHANNESBURG EDITION OF NAKED GIRLS READING, A WONDROUSLY NUDE CELEBRATION OF STORIES THAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS THE “MOST PROVOCATIVE LITERARY SERIES IN THE WORLD”. SAT 10 OCT 2015 3:30PM, P.O.P. ART THEATRE, 286 FOX ST, MABONENG, JOHANNESBURG There is something altogether more intimate about a woman reading in the nude. Let the thrilling
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THE DEVIL & BILLY MARKHAM
BILLY is back at POPArt, and with a Standard Bank Ovation Award in hand!Gambling with the Devil is such a bad, bad idea. Billy Markham’s been around for years: he’s been cut and bled a thousand times, and his eyes are wise and sad – hell, he ain’t afraid of them devilish dice.From the team behind Dirt and The Snow
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THENX LADIES present "THE TRIPLE M MAMMAS"
The Triple M Mammmas! is a sketch show presented by the Thenx Ladies. In the show, the “mammmas”, who are the founders of a local stokvel that caters at “mekete, manyalo le mafu”, give you a taste of their world acclaimed dish: “Nnete”!Inspired by comedy gems like The Pure Monate Show, Late Night News with Loyiso Gola and The Catherine
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“Mnquma “ - in quest of intersecting narratives to connect with our roots – Bayasibiza.
Original Concept: The work is based on discussions held between Xolisile Bongwana and David April who were keen to explore their cultural roots. The piece has subsequently evolved into Bongwana delving into his personal journey...POPArt is thrilled to be presenting this work for a short run following the pieces's incubation at The Centre for the Less Good Idea in November
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BLACK
Standard Bank Young Artist for Theatre 2016, Jade Bowers presents BLACK an adaptation of CA Davids’ Blacks of Cape Town by Penelope Youngleson (winner of the Standard Bank Gold Ovation award for Sillage). In the officious letter from the SA government, Zara learns that documents once sealed and implicating her father in an act which was committed against the anti-apartheid movement
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Murdered to Death
The play introduces the inept and bumbling Inspector Pratt, who battles against the odds and his own incompetence to solve the murder of the house’s owner.It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn’t finished yet; will the miscreant be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom or will the audience die laughing first?Over 900 professional and amateur productions world-wide.
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Vivienne Franzmann's "PESTS"
Pink loves Rolly. Rolly loves Pink. And Pink loves getting bombed off her face.Sisters from the same nest. Both trapped in a tiny rotting world. Both cuffed to a past that refuses to release them.One wants out. The other needs her in.Trouble is that when you complete each other, you're nothing on your own.Starring two of South Africa's exciting talents,
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DIVING (please note : off site)
A site-specific, experimental theatre work, Diving takes place at a pool, the diving board looming - a narrow plank where you can hesitate for a few seconds, or for a lifetime. Five performers navigate the decision to jump, the plunge, immersion into and under the water, and finally, coming up for air. Through this journey, evoked through movement, text, music,
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The Full Morty
Join critically acclaimed theatre actor, TV actor, madly talented vocalist and professional k*k talker Mortimer Williams as he discovers the unchartered territory which fascinates us all… the mind of the South African male. Stand up comedy meets cabaret in this hilarious show as Morty takes us through stories and songs which demonstrate just what it is that makes the SA male
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THREE SISTERS
Their lives are changing and none of them are happy. This adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters centres on the troubling relationship that the sisters have with their past, their life choices and each other. A clash between love, ambition and duty. What do you choose? This contemporary rework of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters places the focus on the regrets, choices and ambitions of
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PERFORMING OBJECTS 1: The Silent Mask
Renowned mask practitioners, A Conspiracy of Clowns, offer you an immersive introduction to mask performance and the art of physical expression. VENUE: POPArt Theatre, 286 Fox Street MabonengDATE: Saturday 26 May 2018TIME: 10h00-16h00COST: R450BOOKING: Spaces are limited, so booking is essential Performing objects (including masks, puppets, and materials) are central to some of the oldest performance forms in history, yet are still
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The Mother of all Eating
The culture today is that of eating. Everybody eats; from the most junior civil servant to the most senior guy … [Sings] Join the civil service and become a millionaire. – The Man, Principal Secretary of StateThe Mother of All Eating is a satirical play that explores the debilitating culture of corruption and greed known as ‘eating’. This culture has
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Height, Weight and Age
Multi-media installation and performance: Height, Weight and Age by Stephen Hobbs in collaboration with Emil Lars. Hobbs’ interactive approach to story-telling fuses the worlds of medicine, architecture and war in an unpacking of personal horrors and artistic dramas emanating from the raw realities of the city he loves most, Johannesburg!R 120 online. R 140 at the door
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SALAAM STORIES
"Theatrical magic"Cape Argus"Ground-breaking theatre"Cape Times“There is an active intelligence in Johaardien's writing, and he has a sharp ear for the dialogue of the street. He neatly counterbalances the serious and the humorous”iol.co.za***NZLEE Productions presents Ashalin Singh in Ashraf Johaardien’s award-winning play SALAAM STORIES directed by newcomer Niquita Hartley under the mentorship of Standard Bank Young Artist alumna and Naledi Award-winner
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A tribute to Mama Africa
In association with POPArt Centre, iSupport Music Business presents A Tribute to Mama Africa by vocalist Thulile Zama at POPArt. Vocalist Thulile Zama will be accompanied by Rebekah Doty on drums, David Smith on keys and Sibusiso Mkhonza on Bass Guitar. Zama promises to bring the audience “Rhythmic grooves, beautiful lead vocals and basslines that make you move your feet. We have
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GO!
GO! explores the world of migration and the refugee crisis told through 7 people who are all facing a dire situation where if they don’t go now they will die.The 2nd year Market Lab students will take you on journey using only bodies and sticks, over merciless seas, leaving their homes with the hopes of finding a better future.Just off
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Single Minded
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Part of the POPUpstairs season 2016/ 2017 supported by the National Arts Council of Southern Africa.The filthy mind behind the cult-hit Dirty Words is back at it again with a sizzling new show. Mixing comedy and raunch with a dazzling disregard for politeness and moral hygiene,
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SUNDAY SOIREES WITH GODFREY JOHNSON & GUESTS
The Sunday Soirees at POPArt will be an all new monthly gig - happening on the last Sunday of every month. A ‘champagne -brunch’ style soiree, the shows will be a relaxed celebration of fantastic musical icons throughout the ages. Performed by Godfrey Johnson & guests 4 September : A morning of intimate cabaret with songs ranging from Kurt Weill to The
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Cyril and Shirley's Sock Puppet Nativity and Xmas Variety Show
Legendary mother and son, Cyril (Robert Colman) and Shirley (Toni Morkel) are back, just in time for Xmas!Join us on 15 December for a fabulous year end variety show featuring special guests Fiona Ramsay, Irene Stephanou, Tony Bentel, Mark Hawkins and Roberto Pombo.It will be a riot in the name of good Xmas spirit.
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