Mokgadi Mogy Mashako Award-winning choreographer, playwright and performer, Mduduzi Nhlapo, is committed to creating impactful physical theatre pieces that challenge colonialism and its modern-day repercussions.…
Posts tagged as “South African State Theatre”
No slowing down for theatre icon Dr John Kani
“There is a lot of mindset change that needs to occur. Jack is white, he is liberal, and really he is not racist. He doesn’t even believe he had to go to the TRC because he has never said anything to anybody but he is as guilty in his silence and complicity, he is as guilty in his language,” Dr John Kani.
Daring director Maseko wants Askari to rock abroad
"...what makes me sleep at night is things like having an old man who was once an askari, come watch the play and say to me after watching the show, he is free to die in peace." - Sello Maseko
Marikana – The Musical marks decade of massacre
THE return of the award-winning theatre piece Marikana- The Musical at the State Theatre this month marks 10 years since the massacre – that claimed…
Are protest plays like Bopha! still relevant after end of apartheid?
Lucas Ledwaba WAS it necessary for the South African State Theatre to bring back the 1980s protest stage play Bopha! long after the end of…




