Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 lecturer in the Department of Drama, Gavin Krastin, was recently honoured for his work in theatre and performance with the prestigious Forty under 40 Award. The event was held at the Houghton Hotel earlier this month and hosted and supported by the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, the National Youth Development Agency and Xodus Communications.

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PERFORMING FLUX PROGRAMME 1 HONOURS PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE DRAMA 2 PHYSICAL ENSEMBLE DRAMA 3 PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE 12 & 14 OCTOBER 2022

“What is a story? A story has a beginning, middle and an end. A story takes you into a different world and paints a picture. A good story contains a moral lesson, loveable characters; characters the audience can relate to and resonate with.”

Prof Roy Sargeant, who was appointed Head of Speech and Drama at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in 1973, passed away at the end of 2021. In addition to establishing the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网's reputation as one of the premier drama training schools in South Africa, Prof Sargeant co-founded the National Arts Festival in 1974 with Prof Guy Butler. He was also integral to the creation of the Student Drama Festival and the Standard Bank Young Artists Awards.

Dipalo is a play co-written by Selloane 'Lalu' Mokuku, a lecturer in Applied Drama and Theatre at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, and Ginni Manning, a playwright and theatre-maker from Liverpool, England.

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Drama studies is, by nature, a physical course. But instead of shelving its annual Performing Flux festival, the Drama Department reinvented it to adapt to COVID-19 restrictions. Perhaps one of the hardest-hit Departments, this brilliant performance showcase pays tribute to the ingenuity, resilience and passion of our Drama staff and students.

The Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 community has learnt with great sadness about the passing of a passionate supporter of the growth of the South African arts sector, Lynette Marais, who Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 bestowed with a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) in 2009.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Drama Department's Anton Krueger’s new show, "The Voice In Your Head", is now on at the National Arts Festival.

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The five finalists of the Distell National Playwright Competition of 2020 have been announced.

When Mathabo Tlali dropped out of Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 six years ago, she never expected she would have the courage to go back to university.

The Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 School of Journalism and Media Studies (JMS) held a collaborative film seminar, Kindo Kadre and the Dream of the Cinema: Outside, Against and Beyond the Abyss, with the Kino Kadre Community Cinema Circle at the Fingo Village Library in Makhanda. The seminar formed part of the Mellon 30th Anniversary Seminar Programme hosted by the JMS in October.

The locals were beaming with joy at the sight of a spectacle rare to the City of Saints.

The Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Drama Department has won a Student Theatre Festival award every year since 2014, making this their sixth year of victory.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Honours student Siph’esihle Ndaba has been granted an Abe Bailey Travel Bursary and will be travelling to Ethiopia and the United Kingdom this November.

A number of students and staff from the Drama Department will participate in the 10th Drama for Life International Conference and Festival which runs from 28 November to 8 December, 2018 at Wits 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网. The conference and festival seeks to map developments and innovations in applied arts, in terms of the overall theme of “Transforming Arts / Transforming Lives”. Some of the concerns of the festival include investigating ways in which arts can move us from binary positions to ones which are more fluid; how we can shift from in-action to action, from anti-social to pro-social, and, ultimately, from oppression to liberation. Themes that will be addressed at the festival include building a human rights culture through arts activism as well as sexual health and wellbeing thought Arts Education. Toward this end, the department will participate with various panels, paper presentations, workshops as well as performances.

The First Physical Theatre Company, an affiliated project of Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Drama Department, will be showcasing two performances ahead of a tour to Cape Town.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s drama department won Best Ensemble Award at this year’s Student Festival at the National Arts Festival (NAF), for its play, Seeing Red.

Known for his experimental performances that are full of beauty yet hard-hitting, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Gavin Krastin, in association with First Physical Theatre Company, will be premiering his latest piece, Yet to be determined, at this year’s National Arts Festival between 05-07 July at the Nun’s Chapel.

Winner of the 2017 Student Theatre Award for Best Original Work, Mmatumisang Motsisi and Winner of the Best Stage Manager Award, Manoko Tlhako, will be putting on another hard-hitting and combative play at this year’s National Arts Festival.

In a village called Boswa, a woman is stoned to death for protesting against the unfair social restrictions that are placed on menstruating woman. Her daughter embarks on a journey to seek justice for her mother’s brutal murder. Her journey is a spiritual one that causes her to realise that there is power in the blood that a woman sheds every month, not shame.

In a village called Boswa, a woman is stoned to death for protesting against the unfair social restrictions that are placed on menstruating woman. Her daughter embarks on a journey to seek justice for her mother’s brutal murder. Her journey is a spiritual one that causes her to realise that there is power in the blood that a woman sheds every month, not shame.

Earlier in the month, the department’s head, Dr Heike Gehring made an open invitation about collaboration during their open house showcasing, and through Totto’s performance-process workshop, an array of faculties as well as community based organisations came together to shape the narrative being presented.

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Six black women occupy the dim, sparsely set stage and break out in song while on their knees, their hands tied.

A Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Masters student won the prestigious 2017 Standard Bank Ovation Award for her play Bayephi, at the Grahamstown Arts Festival this week. Directed by Thembeka Madliki, the theatre production is about finding peace after the disappearance of a loved one.

Renate Stuurman is a South African actress best known for her soapie roles as Denise in SABC2's 7de Laan, as Jade in SABC3's Isidingo and as Tamia Bardill in Scandal! on eTV.

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Rhodes Drama department also won the best student production for Nyanga a devised play that transposed Arthur Miller’s Crucible to the Eastern Cape. Nyanga’s director, Masters student Thembela Madliki also won the award for most promising director.

RU Drama Department celebrates the following achievements at Grahamstown National Arts Festival 2016: HOD of Drama, Professor Gary Gordon, was awarded the prestigious ‘standing ovation’ award at this year’s National Arts Festival

Kamogelo Molobye has been awarded the Live Art Fellowship Award 2017. The fellowship takes place at the ICA Live Art Festival 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cape Town and runs from February 10th - 28th.