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Shows to watch out for at the National Arts Festival 2022

KEDIBONE MODISE kedibone.modise@inl.co.za

AFTER two years of hybrid and online events, the National Arts Festival is back, boasting an array of full live performances from local and international artists.

Currently on until July 3, we have selected the top 10 shows to watch at the 48th National Arts Festival. Bloke & His American Bantu Written by the prolific author and literary critic Siphiwo Mahala, Bloke & His American Bantu, directed by Sello Maake Kancube, follows the tale of two prominent intellectuals, Bloke Modisane and Langston Hughes, played by Anele Nene and Josias Dos Moleele, respectively.

The Drowning Eye

The Drowning Eye is a play by Frantz Fanon, written in 1949. A part love poem, part surrealist narrative, and part philosophical treatise, the play reads like a testimony to the power and possibilities of love as an act of resistance..

Hamlet (Live Streamed)

A powerful new interpretation of Hamlet is brought to life through puppetry and physical performance. Younge’s Hamlet features Mongi Mtombeni and Siyamthanda Sinani as Hamlet, with Andrew Buckland as Claudius and Roshina Ratnam as Queen Gertrude.

Seven Ways to Say Goodbye Seven Ways to Say Goodbye came out of trying to transform isolation into a community after a heavy Covid lockdown. It was birthed after the looting in KZN and the unease in the grand narratives of our politics in South Africa.

It is an embodied journal that echoes the early pillow books of Japan’s Sei Shonagon as it lists seven ways to say goodbye.

Moya (Live Streamed)

Moya explores and celebrates heritage and culture in an acrobatic display that paints a picture before your eyes. The artists reveal themselves to the audience, telling their stories of escape, encounter, brotherhood and ubuntu.

Kamphoer

2022 Fleur du Cap Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Sandra Prinsloo returns to Makhanda with her latest hit production Kamphoer.

The Afrikaans drama is based on the best-selling and debut novel Kamphoer by Francois Smit and the non-fiction publication The Boer Whore by Nico Moolman.

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