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In this cabaret, also known as ‘Ek het al so baie my *** gesien, ek is bang vir *****’, Elzabé Zietsman celebrates her and her fellow South Africans’ resilience. If we fall, we get up.
When the rug is pulled out from under us, we do summersaults and land on our feet. As the world around us changes, we adapt. And when the world around us falls apart completely, mom drinks four Panados and a glass of Chardonnay, and dad lights the fire. Tomorrow we’ll try again.
‘Vier Panado’s en ‘n Chardonnay’ was awarded the Kanna award for Best offering: Music at KKNK 2024.
WITH Elzabé Zietsman and Tony Bentel SCRIPT AND DIRECTOR Johann Slabbert MUSICAL DIRECTOR Tony Bentel PRODUCER Drama Drama Language: English and Afrikaans
Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro, draws inspiration from the character Toloki in South African author Zakes Mda’s novels Cion and Ways of Dying.
In this piece the message of death and its dire consequences are infused through a lament to be able to confront a universe in which the age-old tropes of greed, power and religion have given rise to loss of life not as a natural phenomenon.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, Sikelela… The Road to the Barbican has been postponed to Saturday 9 November 2024. Unfortunately, Thandi Ntuli and Keenan Meyer are on tour and won’t be able to join us for the new date, so we have invited some amazing friends to join us: Maleh, Buhlebendalo, Bokani Dyer & Andile Yenana and Litsomo.
All previous tickets remain valid, if you cannot make the new date and/or would like a refund please call the Market Theatre box office. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to seeing you at Sikelela on Saturday 9 November 2024.
To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Robert Sobukwe’s birth on 5 December 2024, The Market Theatre has commissioned a new play, Lala Ngenxeba/Of Love and Revolution, which aims to introduce audiences to the life and times of the former PAC leader through critical historic moments alongside his prison letters to his wife, Veronica Sobukwe.
The play will open on 14 November 2024 in the Barney Simon Theatre as part of the KAZA KAMBA Pan-African Theatre Festival. It will then run beyond the festival until 8 December 2024, closing the week of Sobukwe’s birthday.
The inaugural Kaza Kamba Pan African Theatre Festival will be held at The Market Theatre from 14 to 17 November 2024 in Johannesburg.
This new partnership between mehlo-maya (eye-to-the-sun) and The Market Theatre will deliver a four-day festival of theatre, music, workshops, film screenings, and talks curated by Bobby Rodwell and Lesego Rampolokeng.
The award-winning comedy is ‘black’ by popular demand at the Market Theatre. Call Us Crazy is essentially a hilarious comedy that sees South Africans laughing at themselves.
The satirical theatre gives flash-glimpses of South African life in the townships, urban and rural areas, unconvincing parliamentary debates, corruption in government and more uniquely South African scenarios, in a humorous manner. On the driving seat of this leg of the run, is a stellar award-winning all-female cast playing multiple roles with ease.
Join us for a magical night as Nomfundo Xaluva takes us on a journey with the launch of her third and long-awaited album “Ndilapha”.
Nomfundo Xaluva is back with her 3rd studio album independently recorded and produced between 2023-2024. Titled Ndilapha which means “I am here” in isiXhosa, this project’s intention is to express the various manifestations of presence through song.
Having last released an album in 2015, Xaluva’s recorded music has and continues to stand in the gap for her during periods of physical absence from the stage.
After years of writing, learning and listening, she returns to the stage to launch Ndilapha, a body of work consisting of songs she has penned over the last decade.
The Market Theatre Foundation is excited to announce a call for applications for the Kwasha! Theatre Company for 2025. We invite passionate and innovative theatre makers to apply for this enriching opportunity.
Kwasha! was launched in 2018 in partnership with Windybrow Arts Centre, and Market Theatre Laboratory as a theatre company project that seeks to develop theatre practitioners in South Africa.
Kwasha! is a theatre company that gives a year’s worth of professional experience to emerging actors, as well as a stipend and professional exposure to enable space and time for young practitioners to develop skills and capacities towards being professionals in the sector.