UPCOMING SHOWS : BROWSE & BOOK

Winner of the Woord Trophy for Outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Music: Small Groups at the 2025 Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees.

Nominated for a 2026 Kanna Award (KKNK):
 Best Music Theatre Production

Nominated for two Fiësta Awards:
 Best Performance in a Solo Production
 Best Contemporary Music Production: Stage

This semi-autobiographical cabaret will make you laugh, cry, and see your own story through new eyes. HOORT tells the story of Stephanie, the daughter of two pastors, as she searches for her place in the world while navigating her mixed heritage and South Africa's complex history. Through humour, pathos, and a vibrant blend of choral music, ghoema, jazz, and original Afrikaans compositions, she comes to a profound realization: fitting in is one thing, but truly belonging is something else entirely.

*NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2026 OVATION GOLD WINNER*

Thirty years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Commission Continua offers a searing reflection on South Africa’s ongoing struggle for justice, accountability and meaningful change asking what becomes of a nation that continues to record its wounds, but struggles to act upon what has been revealed.

At its centre is Bright Maluleke, an unassuming records clerk tasked with photocopying and archiving the findings of South Africa’s many commissions of inquiry. As he processes affidavit after affidavit, report after report, the distance between paper and lived reality begins to collapse. What begins as routine administration spirals into a visceral reckoning with the violence, grief and unanswered truths buried within the archive.

From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to Marikana, Life Esidimeni and the Zondo Commission, Bright finds himself surrounded by a seemingly endless paper trail of testimony, findings and recommendations and confronted by the uncomfortable question of what all this documentation has ultimately changed.

Performed in a stripped-down theatrical environment of a photocopier, microphone and live loop station, Commission Continua transforms the language and machinery of bureaucracy into a haunting sonic and theatrical landscape.

Critics have described the work as:

“A devastating one-hander... the culpability buried under mountains of paperwork.”
“Highly effective and emotionally charged... a cutting and intelligent critique.”
“An act of protest... calling out the broken system... performed with harrowing emotion.”

The production interrogates one of the central paradoxes of South Africa’s democracy: the meticulous recording of truth without the delivery of justice. It asks whether commissions of inquiry remain instruments of accountability, or whether they risk becoming rituals of delay endlessly producing testimony, recommendations and paper while the country waits for meaningful consequence.

Commission Continua is not simply a performance. It is an inquiry. A provocation. A demand.

Come and join Cosmos Theatre Collective at POPArt Theatre, Parkwood, and step into a magical world of shadow puppetry, storytelling and imagination!

Nigel and Casey, two young and imaginative storytellers, bring three much-loved fairy tales to life: The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and The Three Little Pigs. All goes according to plan until some of the pages of Nigel’s magical storybook are accidentally torn, sending the tales off in an unexpected direction.

Filled with playful surprises, theatrical magic and plenty of imagination, Thrice Upon a Time is a delightful 45-minute adventure for young children and the whole family.

Come along and experience three beloved fairy tales with a magical twist!

Come and join Cosmos Theatre Collective at POPArt Theatre, Parkwood, and step into a magical world of shadow puppetry, storytelling and imagination!

Nigel and Casey, two young and imaginative storytellers, bring three much-loved fairy tales to life: The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and The Three Little Pigs. All goes according to plan until some of the pages of Nigel’s magical storybook are accidentally torn, sending the tales off in an unexpected direction.

Filled with playful surprises, theatrical magic and plenty of imagination, Thrice Upon a Time is a delightful 45-minute adventure for young children and the whole family.

Come along and experience three beloved fairy tales with a magical twist!

Ub’Dope Shishini in proud association with POPArt presents: “J.Bobs Reads J.Bobs - the musings of a reluctant wordsmith”.

Mr Jefferson Bobs Tshabalala is a decorated, multiple award winning creative, whose career’s output has impacted the South African Arts landscape with many trajectory changing works - a variety of which stem from his core gift, as a studious writer.

Brilliant Actors have performed his work, Talented Singers have sung his songs, Versatile Performers have rapped his lyrics, and many a masterful tongue have Chowed his Text!

Now, it’s his turn - for him to experience first hand what he has put so many thespians through.

In his latest theatric offering, “J.Bobs Reads J.Bobs - the musings of a reluctant wordsmith”, he takes center stage as the Sterring of his own Pen. He reads us his work, gives us his reading of said vocation, proceeds to render how he intends the gifting to be read. It is the writer, on the lips of the performer, asking to be read. It is the reader, on the ear of the listener, asking to be heard. It is the words, from the mind of maverick, asking to be known.

To experience the literary and performance wonder of “J.Bobs Reads J.Bobs”, you will need to be at  POPArt on 6 August 2026 at 19:00.