UPCOMING SHOWS : BROWSE & BOOK | POPArt: Theatre | Production Company

Our live performance showings are a chance for the public to see what we have been cooking up in our community space and to catch some of the most exciting fringe theatre in Jozi. This doubles up as a learning experience for our youth trainees – so your patronage is extra appreciated!

The Fool's Guide to Living... and Dying...

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Running Time: 65 mins
Performed by Andrew Buckland Directed by Janet Buckland Written by Andrew Buckland & Janet Buckland Produced by Mouthpeace
Warning: Age restriction : No Under 12s
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Three KKNK Kanna Award Nominations :

Best Debut Production Drama
Best Director
Best Actor (Winner)

National Arts Festival Ovation Winner

The Fool's Guide is an hilarious and highly physical journey through the world of contemporary tech, navigated with the virtuoso skill of an actor at the peak of his powers. The one man tour de force asks serious questions about the human condition, especially in relation to social media and AI, and presents unique and thought provoking answers through raucous comedy and poignant story telling.

Will Milton Yonaire be able to save his son Billy Yonaire before the TechBro Overlords do their worst? Can TechBro Billy survive the exploitation of a corrupt social media platform? Can his greatest fan, The FaNarrator protect her Tea Cup Yorkie called Porky from the assassination plot by Chad, the head of the TechBro Overlords? What is the secret carried by the Home Robot Vacuum Cleaner?

Follow these colourful characters as they find their way through the slightly surreal comic adventure, which is also a fast paced thriller, complete with twists and surprises. The intriguing multi-threaded narrative blazes a trail from the familiar to landscapes beyond the veil of death.

ITSOSENG

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Running Time: 60 mins
Written and Performed by: Omphile Molusi
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ITSOSENG is an award-winning South African theatre work written and performed by Omphile Molusi, now reimagined as a cinematic digital theatre production for Digital Setworks.

Set in the township of Itsoseng in the North West, the story follows Mawilla (played by Omphile Molusi) as he, inhabiting multiple characters,as he reflects on shattered promises of life after 1994 in Itsoseng, and the broader realities that came with life in this township. Mawilla applies personal accounts of life lived in Itsoseng.

Performed in Setswana and English, Itsoseng is an intimate and powerful story about love, loss, memory and the search for meaning in a changing South Africa.
Tickets are R 150 online, R 180 at the door.

TOOTHPASTE

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Running Time: 60 mins
Written and Directed by Noah Cohen | Produced by Noah Cohen & Dimakatso Motholo-Miya | Sound Design by Aragorn Eloff | Sound Operation by Ruby Friedman | Costume & Prop Design by Nthabiseng Makone | Poster Design by Matthew Edwards | Writing Incubation and Support by The Centre for the Less Good Idea | Starring: Khutjo Green Sabelo Sekgoto Jaques De Silva With the Voices of Ayanda Seoka & Katleho 'Jack' Moloi
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Locked inside an archaeological workroom at The Cradle of Humankind, a SAPS police sergeant, private security guard, and an archaeologist keep watch over a mysterious glass of water, while humanity’s deep history both looms over and liberates them.

Written and directed by Noah Cohen, the production features a stellar cast including Khutjo Green, Sabelo Sekgoto, and Jaques De Silva. Key voice-over roles also take centre stage, with Ayanda Seoka and Katleho ‘Jack’ Moloi leading a subterranean sound bath.

TOOTHPASTE is an absurdist, philosophical fringe comedy that holds a steamy mirror to South Africa’s institutional fractures, and flashes light on its grounded spiritual and humanist history.

Using the workshopping techniques garnered from his time at The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Cohen and castmates have brought the collaborative model to its staged form through a blend of improvisation and off-beat dialogue.