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by Carolyn on May 15th, 2013
Darryl David, co-founder of Booktown Richmond, has relaunched the Athol Fugard Festival this year and has combined it with the JM Coetzee and SA Nobel Laureates Festival, which he also co-ordinates. While the original Fugard Festival was set in Nieu-Bethesda in 2009, the new combined festival will take place in Booktown Richmond from 23 – 25 May.
Thursday 23 May will see a focus on Fugard’s work, including a talk by Ross Devenish, who has been involved in film adaptations of Fugard’s plays. On the Friday 24 May, the focus will shift to Coetzee with a broadcasting of David Attwell’s talk “The Shot Tower: JM Coetzee and the Art of Autobiographical Fiction” and a discussion of JC Kannemeyer’s biography, JM Coetzee: A Life in Writing. Saturday 25 May will see a screening of Anton Naude’s documentary on Kannemeyer’s collaboration with Coetzee and Jeanette Eve, author of A Literary Guide to the Eastern Cape, will present a lecture titled “The Eastern Cape of Athol Fugard”. The festival will close with a performance of Fugard’s play, Blood Knot.
Other writers to take part in the JM Coetzee and Atholf Fugard festival include Daniel Hugo, Ron Irwin, Susan Smith, Rozena Maart, Malvern van Wyk Smith, Wilna Adriaanse, Rosemary Smith and Maritza Breitenbach.
Full programme and details in the latest Booktown Richmond newsletter:
Athol Fugard and JM Coetzee Festival 2013 Programme
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by Carolyn on Apr 30th, 2013
Novelist, playwright, curator and cultural critic Jane Taylor will discuss the creative process behind her research and staging of the play After Cardenio, at the Anatomy Lecture Theatre on Hiddingh Campus, on Thursday 9 May 2013 as part of GIPCA’s Great Texts public lecture series.
The talk starts at 5 PM for 5:30 PM.
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by Maggie Marx on Apr 12th, 2013
At the next GIPCA Great Texts Lecture, award-winning and provocative playwright Mike van Graan will engage in conversation with author and critic Brent Meersman about “What it means to be a playwright in South Africa in the 21st Century”.
“Playwrights who actually manage to see their work staged are thin on the ground in South Africa. Van Graan is one of the few practicing playwrights who has had significant success in the past decade with a dozen acclaimed works. He constructs morally complex situations and dramatically layered scripts dealing with highly controversial socio-political topics,” comments Meersman.
In this staged conversation, Van Graan and Meersman will consider what role and function theatre has in the new South Africa, asking if the “well-made play” has become an arcane activity, and how the playwright negotiates a culturally diverse audience and country.
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by Maggie Marx on Mar 19th, 2013
Theatre for Africa and The Book Lounge take pleasure in inviting you to a talk by Nicholas Ellenbogen on Alexander McCall Smith’s African opera, The Okavango Macbeth.
Ellenbogen will be speaking on the context and creation of this first opera written by McCall Smith. The evening will be accompanied by glorious singing from the musical cast, bringing to life the sites and sounds of the bushveld.
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by Maggie Marx on Feb 26th, 2013
Uitspraak: wortel
Die veelbekroonde dramaturg Reza de Wet, sluit haar invloedryke aandeel van ’n kwarteeu aan die drama-erfenis van die Afrikaanse letterkunde af met haar drama, Die see, gepubliseer in Oktober 2011. Reeds met haar debuut in 1985 met Diepe Grond is die grondslag gelê vir ’n oeuvre gekenmerk deur uitgebreide metaforiek en multivlakkige dekoderingsmoontlikhede waarbinne tradisionele konvensies omgekeer word en daar dikwels ’n verrassende spel tussen verlede en hede plaasvind om ’n kontrasterende stem te gee aan ’n moontlike nuwe toekoms.
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by Maggie Marx on Jan 11th, 2013
Athol Fugard se eerste Afrikaanse toneelstuk, Die Laaste Karretjiegraf, het hy as belofte aan sy ma geskryf.
Só het dié wêreldbekende dramaturg in ‘n onderhoud aan Murray La Vita vertel. Fugard het saam met die antropoloog Adriana Steyn aan die toneelstuk, wat handel oor die karretjiemense van die Karoo, gewerk. Hy het ook met La Vita gesels oor sy lewe in Amerika en hoe hy self weer volgende jaar in New York as akteur op die verhoog gaan draai.
Die Laaste Karretjiegraf word vanaf 25 Januarie tot 23 Februarie as deel van die Suidoosterfees by die Fugard-teater in Kaapstad aangebied:
Athol Fugard lyk soos ’n Karooboer. Hy dra jeans en ’n kakiehemp. In sy mond is ’n kromsteelpyp waarin hy Magaliesberg-twak gestop het.
Hier staan hy. Robuus en lewenslustig. Vurige oë. Kragtige stem.
Ons sit aanvanklik in die leefvertrek van die tuinwoonstel op Stellenbosch waar hy tans woon as deel van sy sabbatsverblyf by die Stellenbosse Instituut vir Gevorderde Navorsing (Stias).
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by Carolyn on Dec 21st, 2012
Alert Renowned playwright Athol Fugard’s first ever Afrikaans play, Die laaste Karretjiegraf, co-written with Riana Steyn, will debut at next year’s Suidoosterfees and will be on at The Fugard Theatre from 25 January to 23 Febuary 2013.
In a recent discussion with Michael de Jongh, author of Roots and Routes: Karretjie People of the Great Karoo: The Marginalisation of a South African First People, Fugard revealed that he had promised his mother that he would write at least one Afrikaans play in his lifetime and that he would highlight the plight of the Karretjie people of her beloved Karoo. Fugard’s plays have often been translated into Afrikaans. In 2011, Die kaptein se tier, the Afrikaans translation of Fugard’s The Captain’s Tiger was a big success at the Suidoosterfees. His first original Afrikaans piece looks set for the same acclaim.
Die laaste Karretjiegraf opens with Koot, an informal leader of sheep shearer Karretjie people, and Sarah, an anthropologist of Afrikaner heritage, standing at the grave of Koot’s mother, Ouma Mieta. Koot has just been released from jail for the murder of his second wife. While he was incarcerated, Ouma Mieta cared for his children Pienkies, Toek-Toek and the twins Outjie and Rokkies. Although Sarah and Koot both speak Afrikaans, they come from completely different worlds. However, they are bound in this play by shared pain, guilt, regret, love and, eventually, hope.
Die laaste Karretjiegraf is described in Afrikaans on The Fugard’s website:
Koot en Sarah ontmoet ná vele jare by sy Moeder, en die Geduldkinders se Ouma, Mieta Ackerman se graf op ‘n plaas in die Karoo. Koot was gedurende sy swerfjare die informele segspersoon van die span Karretjieskeerders by die Brug uitspanning. Hy is pas uit die tronk vrygelaat vir die moord op sy tweede vrou. Gedurende sy aanhouding in die plaaslike gevangenis het Ouma Mieta na sy kinders Pienkies, Toek-Toek en die tweeling, Outjie en Rokkies omgesien. Sarah is van Afrikanerherkoms en het intussen haar verhandeling in Antropologie oor die onderwerp van die Karretjiekinders voltooi. Hoewel beide Sarah en Koot se moedertaal Afrikaans is, is hulle wêrelde verwyder, maar tog saamgesnoer deur gedeelde ervaringe van pyn, skuld, berou, liefde en uiteindelik hoop.
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by Carolyn on Dec 4th, 2012
Dit blyk dat die Suidoosterfees in 2013, die fees se tiende bestaansjaar, groter as ooit tevore gaan wees met die insluiting van verwerkings en nuwe werke deur ‘n paar groot name uit die Suid-Afrikaanse literêre geledere.
Die beroemde dramaturg Athol Fugard se eerste Afrikaanse toneelstuk, Die laaste karretjiegraf, sal vir die eerste keer opgevoer word, Adam Small se drama Orange Earth sal na die verhoog terugkeer, ‘n verwerking vir die verhoog van André P Brink se Bidsprinkaan sal debuteer en visuele kuns van Breyten Breytenbach, getiteld Vingerverhale, sal tentoongestel word.
Ander noemenswaardige aanbiedinge sluit onder meer in ‘n verwerking van Steve Hofmeyr se Vier briewe vir Jan Ellis en Rachelle Greeff se bekroonde teaterstuk Die naaimasjien, sowel as optredes deur die lewende musieklegende David Kramer en die komediant Nik Rabinowitz.
Die fees word opgedra aan prof Jakes Gerwel, voorsitter van die Suidoosterfees-direksie, wat verlede week oorlede is.
Die Suidoosterfees vind van 29 Januarie tot 3 Februarie 2013 in Kaapstad plaas. Besoek die Suidoosterfees se webtuiste vir die volledige program.
Die Suidoosterfees vier van 29 Januarie tot 3 Februarie in Kaapstad sy tiende bestaansjaar met opwindende huldeblyke aan van die land se grootste letterkundige geeste.
Verwerkings en nuwe werke deur veterane soos Adam Small, Athol Fugard en André P. Brink, asook die visuele kuns van die skrywer Breyten Breytenbach, tel onder die hoogtepunte van dié fees wat van ’n beskeie begin ’n dekade gelede gegroei het tot een van die Moederstad se kulturele hoogtepunte.
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by Maggie Marx on Nov 23rd, 2012
Adam Small, digter en dramaturg, het na ’n grootse loopbaan in die letterkunde, eindelik die Hertzogprys van die SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns ontvang. Weens sy swak gesondheid kon hy nie self die prys in ontvangs neem by die oorhandigingsplegtigheid nie, maar het hy wel ’n telefoononderhoud aan Johan Rademan van RSG toegestaan. Ina van Rooyen het die onderhoud vir Die Burger verwerk:
Prof. Adam Small (75), beroepsfilosoof, maatskaplike werker, digter, dramaturg en satirikus, het sy stilte van sowat 15 jaar die eerste keer verbreek sedert hy in 1997 by die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland (UWK) as hoogleraar in maatskaplike werk afgetree het. Hy was onder meer vroeër die eerste professor in filosofie aan die UWK.
Small is met die Hertzogprys bekroon vir sy drama-oeuvre en spesifiek vir Kanna hy kô hystoe (1965) – “die werk wat my nader aan my hart staan as my poësie”.
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by Carolyn on Nov 7th, 2012
Alert! Darryl David, co-founder of Booktown Richmond, has announced the relaunch of the Athol Fugard Festival in the first quarter of next year. The festival for the famous playwright was held in Nieu-Bethesda in 2009, but did not continue annually due to a lack of funds.
Now David, who is also the organiser of BoekBedonnerd, and festivals honouring JM Coetzee, Olive Schreiner and Breyten Breytenbach, is planning a new Athol Fugard Festival that will kick off in Booktown Richmond and then consist of a literary pilgrimage to Nieu-Bethesda, the place where Fugard wrote many of his world-renowned plays.
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Booktown Richmond is proud to announce that they will be re-launching the Athol Fugard Festival. As lovers of the Karoo might know, the Fugard Festival was started in Nieu-Bethesda in 2009 and it was a highly successful festival. But when ABSA withdrew their sponsorship, Nieu-Bethesda could not find another sponsor and the Fugard Festival did not take place this year.
‘It is a great pity’, says Darryl David, founder of Booktown Richmond, that in the year that Athol Fugard, (who people describe as the greatest living dramatist in the English speaking world) celebrated his 80th birthday, Nieu-Bethesda could not honour one of her most famous residents. In fact, our press hardly gave him a mention on this momentous occasion. ‘And that is what prompted me’, says David, ‘to revive the Fugard Festival’
‘Residents of Nieu-Bethesda need not fear, says David, ‘that Richmond is trying to colonize all the major festivals for ourselves. I realise we host BoekBedonnerd and the J.M. Coetzee Festival in Booktown Richmond. But I did start the Schreiner Festival in Cradock, and the Breyten Breytenbach Festival in Montagu. More than anyone, I think people will acknowledge that I am acutely aware of writers’ bonds with certain places. And I know that you literally cannot have a Fugard Festival without Nieu-Bethesda. It would be akin to starting a Owl House Festival in Hanover!’
With this in mind David plans to host day 1 of the Fugard Festival in Booktown Richmond. But on the second morning, we will take to the back roads on a literary pilgrimage to a landscape Fugard has hymned into South African literature – Nieu-Bethesda!
The festival is being planned for the first quarter of 2013. Dates will be confirmed in the next month. ‘But we would like to invite all past supporters of the Fugard Festival to please contact Darryl David on 0813918689 / cowboys@sai.co.za or Peter Baker on 0829411572 / pcbaker@mweb.co.za.
‘We owe it to Athol Fugard, one of the great voices in South African literature, not to let the Fugard Festival die under our watch’, says David.
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