Sarafina! – The Sound of Freedom will be screened daily, free of charge from 10-25 June. The award winning film, expanded into a Broadway musical by award winning writer-composer Mbongeni Ngema is complete with memorable soundtracks.
Starting from 15-18 June at Soweto Theatre at 15.00 and 20.00 Vuyani Dance will be showcasing Rhythm Colour. Though the legacy of apartheid cannot be erased, the play provokes citizens to reflect on the common vision held by the youth of 1976, to eradicate all injustices. Tickets are now available for R150, R100 block booking and for R60 for students and pensioners.
Soweto Theatre will also host a dialogue titled “Open letter to Freedom” from 19-24 June at 19.00 featuring; Thandi Ntuli, Urban Village, Go Barefoot, Kgafela Oa Mogogodi, Sun Xa Experiment and Automatic. The dialogue seeks to provide an opportunity to engage with more renowned scholars within the arts. Tickets are available from R100.
Revolution House from 13-19 June at Soweto Theatre is an installation of a pop-up book store filled with the literature of our forefathers. The show takes place daily at 3pm complemented by a live reading lead by prominent authors and reading activists.
Showing at the Joburg Theatre is The Cleaners starting on 16 June ending 19 June. Written and directed by Sipho Zakwe, performed by Duma Ndlovu Academy (DNA) and Durban University of Technology Drama graduates Lungani Mabaso and Sipho Zakwe is a story about two young men, uZibi (dirt) and uMshanelo (broom), cleaners both in profession and bloodline; offspring to a victim of the 2007 ‘Reitz Four’ incident at the University of Free State.
Finally, a musical presented by Joburg Theatre Community Development and Applause Theatre Company, The Antidote will start from 28 June. The production showcased at the National Arts Festival in 2014 and reviewed by the Cue Newspaper in Grahamstown as “The undercover testing of an experimental aggression-reduction drug on convicts with the aim to improve humanity backfires drastically on the people pulling the strings”.
“Joburg City Theatres looks forward to engaging and entertaining the youth on matters that are relevant to this new age fast changing society”, says Ms Xoliswa Nduneni-Ngema, CEO of Joburg City Theatres.
Purchase tickets and reserve admission by visiting: www.joburgtheatre.com | www.sowetotheatre.com
