Catalina Theatre Call For Theatre Productions 2015 - Exhibition Opening - Theatre Workshop

The Call for 2015

We are looking for new works and experienced professional productions to fill our wide variety of time slots: daytime school term, daytime holidays, prime time evening and late night. There is a variety of collaboration options including venue hire, associations, and sponsorship for new works. We look forward to hearing your idea for a theatre production whether it is simply a script that you have, a fully-fledged show or simply an idea for a show that you would like to produce.

If you would like to stage a production at the Catalina Theatre, please forward a proposal to the Artistic Director, Rowin Munsamyad@keepthedream.org or complete the online form on the Collaboration tab at www.catalinatheatre.com. For inquiries about the theatre, emailinfo@catalinatheatre.com or call 031 837 5999 during office hours.

Venue: Elizabeth Gordon Gallery, 120 Florida Road, Durban.

Tel: 031-303-8133

Time: 6pm

Date: 1 Oct 

ASSITEJ SA WORKSHOP for CHILDREN’S THEATRE FESTIVAL

with KZN THEATRE4YOUTH MENTOR GISELE TURNER

PLAY-PLAY!

Theatre-in-Education veteran script writer, director and performer, Gisele Turner, currently KZN Theatre4Youth mentor, offers a Make a Play Workshop exploring the capacity to create through play. Serious playfulness is a core element in children’s’ theatre, connecting the performer with the audience through innovative and unexpected play. Ordinary objects become magical in the hands of an animator. Make a Play date for Monday 6 October from 10 am through 12 pm at the Catalina Theatre. Open to theatre practitioners and play makers.  Call Gisele on 083 5458546 to book or email her on gisele@saol.com  Limit 30 participants. Free of charge for PANSA Members.

Social Media Evening - Durban - 18h30 - 15 October

Info: http://socialbythesea.blogspot.com/

This edition by +Fred Felton 

Gibs East Coast Radio Business Breakfast Is Coming as are Book Launches and Art Shows

Opening Soon in Durban is the Gibs / East Coast Radio Business Breakfast.
Featuring Top Speakers be sure not to miss it.

Date: Thursday 6 March 2014

Venue: ICC - Durban

Tickets: Computicket

Book Launch For Durban

Adams & Ike’s Books invite you to the launch of THE CATALINA COLLECTION an anthology of four plays which premiered at the Catalina Theatre ,

Wilson’s Wharf , Durban harbour . Leslie Dikeni’s South African Development Perspectives in Question will be launched alongside The Catalina Collection .

Date :   THURS 6 MARCH , 5.30 for 6.00 pm

Venue :  IKE’s Books , 48A Florida Road  ph : Joanne 031 303 9214

Guest speakers :  Themi Venturas (Catalina Theatre director) , Chantal Snyman (Catalina Collection editor)

Rsvp :  cedric@adamsbooks.co.za or 082 873 2702

The four plays : De Compleat Hstry of Dbn (without the boring bits) takes a creative , honest and tongue-in-cheek romp through Durban and KZN’s history.

Infecting The City Of Cape Town

The Africa Centre is proud to announce the seventh edition of its annual Public Arts Festival Infecting The City.

From the 10-15th March, 40 unique artworks will weave their way through the CBD of Cape Town. The programme is jam-packed with artworks that range from the popular and entertaining to the conceptual and thought provoking.

Infecting The City 2014 is our most ambitious Festival to date. Here is a small taste of what to expect:

• Uncles & Angels is an interactive dance and video collaboration by Mocke J Van Vueren and Nelisiwe Xaba;
• Neo Muyanga will perform Thorisole Morusu that is inspired by, and based on, Antjie Krog's poem Country of Grief and Grace;
• Using candles, Pedro Bustamante’s The Accumulation is Primitive provides visibility to the accumulation and the political subjectivity of maps that represent the GDP data of various countries;
• Swiss performance company Da Motus presents their interactive piece and internationally renowned public art work Con Tatto;
• A much anticipated performance by Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra on Greenmarket Square followed by an intervention by conceptual artist Christian Nerf, and a provocative video work called Surveillance by Berlin based artist, Alien Oosting;
• Staged intimate performances along Queen Victoria Road by several choreographers including Mamela Nyamza and Sean Oelf;
• A 60-strong Youth Orchestra playing for 30 Pantsula dancers directed by Mandisi Sindo;
• Untitled 310 is a music work by Spanish composer Francisco Lopez that is performed by six blindfolded musicians at the historic Centre for the Book;
• Tam Frazers’ Smellscapes sees the water feature on St George’s Mall imbued with haunting scents each day of the Festival; and
• New York artist Kate Urban use 50,000 red rose petals to create a sacred pathway at the Station.

The programme has been designed to encourage audiences to discover, define and experience the City’s private and public environments in new ways.  

Join us and hundreds of artists on the 10th March at 6.00pm in front of the Iziko South African Museum for the Launch of the Festival.

Festival news is uploaded to Twitter and Facebook pages daily.

We have Theatre News, Art News and a short story and more

Catalina Theatre - Call for Proposals for 2014

Catalina UnLtd is calling for proposals for productions to be staged at the Catalina Theatre, Wilson’s Wharf, Durban for 2014.

The productions may be full theatre productions, children’s shows, music performances, dance, comedy, and the like. The aim is to get an interesting, innovative and eclectic mix while still focussing on good, solid mainstream theatre.

Please send a brief proposal consisting of:

·         Name and contact details

·         Type of show (e.g. music performance)

·         Synopsis or basic story line of the show

·         Number of cast members/performers

·         Brief director & actor/performer bios

·         Who would the show appeal to

Please email catalinasagm@gmail.com for more information or to submit your proposal.

Make 2014 your year to get on stage

(Source - Catalina Theatre)

(Source - A Word Of Art) 

Gruyere by Andrew Verster

“MY HANDKERCHIEF HAS MORE HOLES THAN A GRUYERE CHEESE closed after two performances at The Loft after tepid reviews.

 “The critics didn’t exactly rave about  AS YOU LIKE IT if you remember.”

 “I wasn’t there, so I’ll have to take your word for it,” John  Mault, the co-author said. “Joanna Ezard, my other half, has booked a ticket to Tasmania, she is so mortified.”  

“She has family there?”

“No. But TOURS INC were offering half price tickets to the first twenty takers. 

“Where’s Tasmania? She asked the clerk.

“Give me half a minute and I’ll look it up if I can find my pocket atlas. It must be around. I had to find Zimbabwe just last week. But, for the life of me, I couldn’t find it. It’s up north somewhere. I think they must have cancelled it.”

“Thank you. You’ve been wonderful.”

“No, problem. Pleased I could help.”

Andrew Verster is a world famous artist and writer based in Durban. 

ANDREWVERSTER784@GMAIL.COM