UPCOMING SHOWS : BROWSE & BOOK

It's time for another official 30 DAY VUKA ACTOR CHALLENGE!

In the official challenge, POPArt - together with our awesome facilitation partners - provide a specialised 30 DAY programme to kick start your Vuka Actor Best Life. 

This January, we are theming facilitations around reconnecting with your best actor self! Let's start the year by re-centring together. 

HOW DOES THIS WORK??? 
Every day for 30 days, you will receive a Vuka Actor Exercise, instruction or class via a daily email. These may be acting or vocal exercises, fitness classes or an instruction (that you can keep forever), and at least twice a week, there will be a live class taking place at POPArt or one of our partner spaces. 

Facilitators include :  Zikka Zimba, Awande Dube, Dintshitile Masile, Qondiswa James, Ncumisa Ndimeni and more... 
Vuka Actors also get access benefits and discounts to shows, events, classes throughout the month of January!

Once you sign up for the programme, we will send you the full overview of the 30 days for you will receive the full programme overview so you can plan your month. 

It is essential to book in order to sign up and receive your Vuka Actor Comms. 
Sign ups for the programme are allowed until 7 January (DAY 7 of the programme)`
Drop ins allowed at R 120 per class. FULL programme costs R 300. 

PS - we are going National with our friends at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective - so tell your Cape Town friends to WAKE UP!

Join us for a three hour intro to improv masterclass with Dintshile Mashile. 

Dintshitile Mashile is a dynamic and socially conscious performing artist whose work blends playfulness with ethical inquiry. Passionate about creating, examining, and illustrating thought-provoking issues for diverse audiences, she brings both heart and intellect to the stage. She is the proud recipient of the Theatre Arts Emerging Director Award (2022) and Naledi Award (2022), recognizing her bold contributions to South African theatre. Acommitted scholar and practitioner, Dintshitile holds a BA Honours in Applied Drama and Theatre (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand, with a focus on education, communities, and social contexts.

Her journey is rooted in rigorous training at institutions including The Market Theatre Laboratory, The University of Johannesburg, and The Sibikwa Arts Centre Saturday Arts Academy (SAA). Through her work, she continues to challenge norms, amplify marginalized voices, and spark meaningful dialogue always with a touch of wit and wonder.

Get your body moving with a one hour movement class focusing on movement, physical performance and comedy with Zikka Zimba facilitator, Ryan Pittman. 

Zikkazimba Productions is a small company that believes, it only takes one person to make a difference. In 2008 we started by developing workshops to make drama theory more accessible to students. We then started developing works that encourage students to engage critically with their environment and that led us to exploring our own environment and seeing where we could contribute.

Join the Vuka Actor Club for a stretch and a somatic exploration with Lwazi Mdluli. 


Lwazilwenkosi Mdluli is a movement based facilitator whose work focuses on body awareness, somatic practice, breathwork and de-rolling techniques for performers. His sessions create grounded spaces that centre physical presence, emotional release, and mindful preparation for creative work.

Lwazi trained at the Market Theatre Laboratory (2024–2025) and is a member of the award-winning Afropocalypse Ensemble, recipients of the Gold Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival. His background as a theatre-maker and actor deeply informs his facilitation style.

Lwazi’s work is rooted in the belief that mindful bodies create truthful performers.

"It’s all fun and games until we have to lean in and face the ugly truth" - Sarah Roberson, the Critter

“Sometimes I have to lean in...” is an interdisciplinary collaboration between choreographer-performer Alan Parker and director-performer Gerard Bester. It was originally commissioned by the Dance Umbrella in 2018, specifically for the 30th anniversary of the festival, and has since been restaged for the Live Art Festival in Cape Town and, most recently, for the 2024 National Arts Festival in Makhanda, for their 50th anniversary. 

The work is a sometimes playful, sometimes dark, consideration of the act of leaning. On one level, the performance is a leaning in of two ageing performers, who lean in closer in order to better see and understand each other. On another level, thisact of leaning is explored as a metaphor for looking back to where you have come from in order to understand where you are now.

It strikes a delicate balance between humour and light-hearted reminiscing, alongside more poignant interrogations of what the passing of time means for us, as humans in the world, as we influence, support, encourage, knock down and ultimately transform each other. “Sometimes I have to lean in…” has been described by critics as “a sheer gem of a work” (Robyn Sassen, My View), “a moment of triumph” (Mike Loewe, Daily Dispatch), and “highly recommended” (Sarah Roberson, The Critter).

Production Credits
Choreographer & Performer: Alan Parker
Director & Performer: Gerard Bester
Dramaturg: Gavin Krastin
Text ("Wallflower"): Gwydion Beynon

Age restriction: 14+ Strong language

A stand-up comedy show by MoMo Matsunyane.

Multi award winning actor and theatre director MoMo Matsunyane finally debuts her much anticipated stand up comedy show. Known for merging comedy with tragedy in her works such as UNLEARN and Ka Lebitso La Moya, Matsunyane now lets us into her personal world and shares her experiences of growing up with a famous father, having a blended family, living with mental illness, relationships, sex, and politics.

This sharp shooting, edgy and quirky storyteller is about to put it all out there and you do not want to miss it! Catch “I’m MoMo And I Have Issues” at POPArt Centre from the 12th-15th of February 2026.