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Children's Theatre Festival
Children's Theatre Festival
September is both heritage month, and the Michaelmas school holidays. With this in mind, DUT Drama has traditionally staged a theatre festival with younger audiences in mind - honouring South African stories, with a strong heritage theme and educational context.
The previous five festivals have each showcased a particular Durban writer who specialises in Children's Theatre. Under the spotlight have been Gisele Turner (2011), Clinton Marius (2012), Prof. Pieter Scholtz (2013): Dr. Gcina Mhlophe (2014) and Neil Coppen (2015).
The DUT Children's Theatre festival was founded by Prof Lutge and goes into its sixth year. "This year we wanted to look at the festival in another way, and we proudly present a programme of original home-grown works - all imaginative stories with strong life lessons," says this year's festival coordinator, Dr Pamela Tancsik.
Since last year, the festival is also part of the DUT Digifest - with one performance taking place at DUT City Campus as part of the Digifest programme.
The Professional Fringe Festival, embedded into the festival, offers productions from veteran stalwarts Peter Court, Adi Paxton and Gisele Turner dovetailing with the commissioned festival pieces to allow for a varied and extensive programme of work over the weekend for the public.
Contact details for bookings: Lebohang on 031 - 373 2194
After hours: Pamela 082 403 1707 or e-mail: pamelat@dut.ac.za
The Festival is supported by The Festival is supported by ASSITEJ SA. Contact person: Pauline Dalais paulined@renweb.co.za