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Cape Town – The programme for this year's Aardklop festival, which is now officially known as the Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival, was announced in Johannesburg on Wedenesday.
This year's festival, which will take place from 4 to 9 October, will host more than 100 productions of which 41 are theatre productions.
One of the new theatre productions that can be seen at this year's festival is Rooiland.
Directed by award-winning Jaco Bouwer, young playwright Tertius Kapp puts the spotlight on gang structures in South African jails.
Bouwer is also the director and creator of lig – a combination of theatre and performance art in which beliefs surrounding science, philosophy and theatre are juxtaposed.
In Aantrekkingskrag, Deon Opperman's brand-new play, the focus falls on the complexity of relationships, and features, amongst others, Franci Swanepoel and André Odendaal.
Playwright Chris Vorster wears a comic-satirical hat in Buurtwag, while Jan van Tonder (on whose novel the recent movie Roepman is based) makes his theatre debut with a farce, Die onbeholpe djin.
Popular productions
Louise van Niekerk's Ouma wys angel is a comical and honest look at the challenges facing a grandmother.
One of Pieter Fourie's most gripping dramas, Mooi Maria, returns to the stage with Albert Maritz as director. In the translated Eendsonderend (David Mamet's Duck Variations) seasoned actors Marius Weyers and Louis van Niekerk join forces – a comedy-drama with two elderly men contemplating the trials and tribulations of life.
Jon Fosse's Doodsvariasies (Death Variations) is a drama about a couple grappling with their daughter's suicide. André Stolz directs.
Albert Pretorius can be seen in the title role in the South African première of Will Eno's award-winning tragicomedy Thom Pain (based on nothing), while he also shares the stage with Gideon Lombard in the touching …miskien .
Popular productions from other festivals include Sylvaine Strike's The Table; Charles Fourie's Agterplaas; Dis koue kos, skat with Elzabé Zietsman; Nag, Ma and Janneman (both featuring Sandra Prinsloo); Nicola Hanekom's Lot (winner of several awards at the KKNK); and the disturbing Wees, directed by Hennie van Greunen.
Tickets are available at Computicket from today and the full programme can be seen at www.aardklop.co.za.
This year's festival, which will take place from 4 to 9 October, will host more than 100 productions of which 41 are theatre productions.
One of the new theatre productions that can be seen at this year's festival is Rooiland.
Directed by award-winning Jaco Bouwer, young playwright Tertius Kapp puts the spotlight on gang structures in South African jails.
Bouwer is also the director and creator of lig – a combination of theatre and performance art in which beliefs surrounding science, philosophy and theatre are juxtaposed.
In Aantrekkingskrag, Deon Opperman's brand-new play, the focus falls on the complexity of relationships, and features, amongst others, Franci Swanepoel and André Odendaal.
Playwright Chris Vorster wears a comic-satirical hat in Buurtwag, while Jan van Tonder (on whose novel the recent movie Roepman is based) makes his theatre debut with a farce, Die onbeholpe djin.
Popular productions
Louise van Niekerk's Ouma wys angel is a comical and honest look at the challenges facing a grandmother.
One of Pieter Fourie's most gripping dramas, Mooi Maria, returns to the stage with Albert Maritz as director. In the translated Eendsonderend (David Mamet's Duck Variations) seasoned actors Marius Weyers and Louis van Niekerk join forces – a comedy-drama with two elderly men contemplating the trials and tribulations of life.
Jon Fosse's Doodsvariasies (Death Variations) is a drama about a couple grappling with their daughter's suicide. André Stolz directs.
Albert Pretorius can be seen in the title role in the South African première of Will Eno's award-winning tragicomedy Thom Pain (based on nothing), while he also shares the stage with Gideon Lombard in the touching …miskien .
Popular productions from other festivals include Sylvaine Strike's The Table; Charles Fourie's Agterplaas; Dis koue kos, skat with Elzabé Zietsman; Nag, Ma and Janneman (both featuring Sandra Prinsloo); Nicola Hanekom's Lot (winner of several awards at the KKNK); and the disturbing Wees, directed by Hennie van Greunen.
Tickets are available at Computicket from today and the full programme can be seen at www.aardklop.co.za.
