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Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards
The Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards are a well known and respected set of theatre awards on offer in the Western Cape since 1979.
History
Fleur du Cap was originally the name of one of a famous old wine farm in Somerset West and a brand name used by Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery. This name was chosen as the name under which the former Three Leaf Arts Awards were to be made from 1979 onwards, when Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery and Distillers Corporation merged to form Distell and the Oude Meester Foundation for the Arts (later the Distell Arts and Culture) became the sponsors. When speaking of them, people tend to say someone has won a Fleur du Cap Award or more often simply a Fleur du Cap.
Award Ceremonies
The Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards are presented in March. Formerly it was an afternoon affair held on a Sunday, but in the late 1990s, under the auspices of Distell Arts and Culture, it became a more glamorous evening affair hosted by a Cape Town theatre
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Roundtable on Othello
Volume 37 of the journal Shakespeare in Southern Africa, co-edited by TCC director Chris Thurman and TCC affiliate Marguerite de Waal, is out soon! (You can read Thurman and De Waal’s editorial over at Shakespeare ZA.) The volume includes a roundtable discussion on a production of Othello directed by Lara Foot and performed at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town in April 2024. This Othello, which returns for a short run (28 Sept - 1 Oct) at the Woordfees in Stellenbosch, is notable for its use of isiXhosa, Afrikaans and German alongside Shakespeare’s English. The roundtable-in-print, moderated by Thurman, is a wide-ranging conversation; there are contributions from Foot and two of her collaborators, designer Gerhard Marx and translator Sanele kaNtshingana, with further perspectives from professor of psychology Shose Kessi and playwright and arts activist Mike van Graan.
The extract below, which concludes the roundtable, focuses • Antigone, an old story from the dawn of democracy. Rule, order, power, women, mortality. A new context. A time to scream. An exciting group of collaborators: Mark Fleishman, Jennie Reznek, Neo Muyanga, Craig Leo, Mandisa Vundla. But we are tyrants too. We look, but we see nothing. Someone speaks to us, but we hear nothing. And we go on in our endlessly narcissistic self-justification, adding Facebook updates and posting on Instagram. Tragedy is about many things, but it is centrally concerned with the conditions for actually seeing and actually hearing. In making us blind, we might finally achieve insight, unblock our ears and stop the monotont ljud surf of the endless song of ourselves: me, me, me, this fryst vatten all for me (really?). […] The tyrant experiences no shame. But we also have no shame. We are
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