"L'Avare" de Molière dans une interprétation étonnante au Market Theatre de Johannesburg

Ne manquez pas le classique intemporel de Molière "L'Avare" dans une mise en scène très contemporaine de Sylvaine Strike au Market Theatre de Johannesburg du 25 octobre au 09 décembre 2012. Comédie délicieusement douce-amère, cette pièce écrite en 1668 décrit au scalpel l'avarice, la paranoïa et la méchanceté d'un père comme il en existe peu. Un frère, sa sœur, leurs amants respectifs et une bande de servants opprimés ont à subir cette folle avarice qu'est celle d'Harpagon... Mais pour combien de temps encore ? Et dans le rôle très recherché d'Harpagon, Lionel Newton est au sommet de son art !

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!Aïa - On the trail of the Bushmen

1-18 September 2011
Artscape, Cape Town
Performances in Cape Town’s townships (organised by Artscape)

Following an acclaimed South African tour of their poignant piece MâRavan in 2009, ThéâtreTaliipot is back to present their new work !Aïa“from cave to sky”.

!Aïa is a San name which means a special state of being. This transversal work between art, culture, science and traditional wisdom celebrates our origins, life, the living, the relationship between human beings and nature. For this project, the company has worked with artists, traditional healers and scientists such as Professor Sam Challis (Archaeologist, Origins Centre, Wits University), Sven Ouzman (Archaeologist, rock engraving specialist, Pretoria University), John Parkington (Archaeologist, Cape Town University), Pippa Skotnes (Archaeologist, Cape Town University) and Jean-Loïc Lequellec (Research director at the CNRS, France, rock art specialist). Their research during the creative process took them to the ravines and heights of Reunion Island, and in South Africa, to the Drakensberg and the Cradle of Humankind in particular, on the trail of the world’s oldest civilisation… the Bushmen. Engraved rocks and rock paintings inspired this work, which stages corporal and primeval memories beyond all exiles, ruptures and denominations.

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The Giant Match puppets strut their stuff around the world

Initiated in the context of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, The Giant Match project involved over one hundred South African actors, musicians, dancers, puppeteers, visual artists and craftsmen from various communities in Gauteng as well as artists from Les Grandes Personnes. For over five weeks in Johannesburg, the artists worked on the creation of 30 giant puppets, characters and objects which would fit in a show reflecting the multicultural South Africa.

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