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R350With its mix of magnificent puppets, live actors, captivating costumes and evocative music, video projection and dance, “Tall Horse” has enchanted theatre goers world wide. This spectacular production is the result of an exceptional meeting between South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company and Mali’s Sogolon Puppet Troupe. Mervyn Millar had unique access to the production, from development workshops through rehearsals to the first performances for the world tour.
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R250‘Why bother to rob a bank, when you can own a bank?’ asked Bertold Brecht. The question is reiterated in the very Brechtian Love, Crime and Johannesburg, the story of Jimmy ‘Long Legs’ Mangane and the trouble he gets into in the new South Africa. Jimmy, a people’s poet involved in the struggle, is accused of robbing a bank. He passionately asserts his innocence, claiming to work for the ‘secret secret service’.
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R365H. Rider Haggard, best known as the author of King Solomon’s Mines, She, and Allan Quatermain, also wrote three full-length plays. The play Mameena, based on Haggard’s novel Child of Storm, is set in Zululand during the 1850s and deals with the struggle for the succession to the Zulu throne.
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R150Missing is the story of Robert Khalipa , an ANC Cadre living in exile, who is very senior in the Organisation but is left out of the negotiations and almost forgotten in Sweden.
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R720With its pioneering vision, onedotzero champions new forms of moving image, and this book celebrates the next generation of creators who are accelerating the medium into the 21st century, following the success of the first Motion Blur.
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R85In his introduction to this collection, Stephen Gray states that ‘there can be no artistic grounds on which to uphold a belief that “short” implies “lesser”‘; he goes on to make the point that ‘Fugard seems naturally to be most at ease when working in compact dense forms’.
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R150My Life is based on the diaries of five South African girls who were growing into womanhood in 1994
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R300Hear from experts at the world-famous National Theatre about every aspect of stagecraft, including prop-making, set building and lighting design, and discover, from first idea to final curtain, how plays are made.
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R100book about the re-establishment of the gallery premises at the then-named Johannesburg Civic Theatre by the Trinity Session
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R140Through five colourful characters, three of them living out their very individual lives in an unnamed public park in Johannesburg, Zakes Mda explores the plight of women and children in a patriarchal and male-dominated twenty-first century world.
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R400 Original price was: R400.R180Current price is: R180. landmark compilation of popular music, this collection contains Paul Simon’s lyrics from his first album in 1964 to the present, now with 2016’s Stranger to Stranger.
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R440Following the success of 2005’s groundbreaking book and exhibition “reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow 2005-2025,” “reGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today” turns the spotlight yet again on the next generation of photography’s potential stars. Through over 200 images, this remarkable survey–the only anthology of its kind–showcases the inspiring creativity and ingenuity of 80 up-and-coming photographic artists.
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R200800×600 Volume 2 presents the work of visual artist Sam Hopkins, who lives and works in Nairobi. Hopkins, who has been educated in Kenya, Cuba, at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and in Edinburgh, is a crucial representative of a certain young, transnational art scene in Nairobi. The scene is oriented towards, and part of,…
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R275Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career—redefining the very nature of her art—to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I, as well as crisscrossing America on her ninth American tour.
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R100In an old house in a small country town three women gather in the pressence of a stinkwood table and their powerful memories of the man they have just buried. In Sorrows and Rejoicings, Athol Fugard turns ones more to his beloved Karoo and to the themes of exile and the importance of place that have permeated so many of his plays.
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R400 Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South African cinema from 1896 to the present. Thoroughly researched and fully documented by renowned film scholar Martin Botha, the book focuses on the many highly creative…
