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		+	'''July 2026 — New entries: contemporary performance-makers and the Woordfees drama archive'''
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		+	More than 70 new entries have been added to ESAT over recent weeks, with a strong focus on contemporary South African performance.
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		+	A group of entries documents the Johannesburg live-arts world of [[Jefferson Tshabalala\|Jefferson Tshabalala ("J. Bobs")]] — his production house [[Kiri Pink Nob\|Kiri Pink Nob Arts]] and his works ''[[Khongolose Khommanding Khommissars]]'', ''[[Ekasi Lam]]'' and the game-show series ''[[J.Bobs Live]]'' — alongside the collaborative duo [[Theatre Duo]] ([[Billy Langa]] and [[Mahlatsi Mokgonyana]]) and the award-winning Afrikaans production house [[Polony]]. The poet-performer [[Kgafela oa Magogodi]] has also been documented for the first time.
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		+	New play and company entries include the dark comedy ''[[Amper, Vrystaat]]'' by [[Nico Scheepers]], the one-man music-theatre piece ''[[Ek is nie Danie]]'' by [[Danie Marais]], the Cape Town company [[Spark in the Dark]], and a run of Afrikaans works and translations such as ''[[Skeer op Richmond]]'' ([[Saartjie Botha]]), ''[[Bullets over Bishop Lavis]]'' ([[Christo Davids]] and [[Jody Abrahams]]), ''[[Skop]]'', ''[[Grieta kry geleerdheid]]'', ''[['n Lewe in die Teater]]'' and ''[[Voor ek vergeet]]''.
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		+	On the festival side, the [[Sanlam Dramafees]] — the former sponsor-branded name of the [[Woordfees\|US Woordfees]] drama programme in Stellenbosch, used in the early 2010s and later renamed the Toneelfees — now has an entry, together with the first production write-ups from the 2010 festival: ''[[Maskermaan]]'' by [[Cecilia du Toit]], ''[[Suurgat II]]'' by [[Leon Kruger]], ''[[Daan de Wet hou sy oog op die bal]]'' by [[Gaerin Hauptfleisch]], and ''[['n Koeksister vir Zuma]]'', [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]'s satirical solo turn as [[Evita Bezuidenhout]]. A new overview entry on [[South African sketch comedy]] traces the form's local history.
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		+	New reference and screen-history entries include the documentary filmmaker [[Michael Duffett]] (1956–2021) and the film ''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy]]'' (1980); the bilingual essay collection ''[[Die Breytie-Boek/The Breytie Book]]'', dedicated to [[P.P.B. Breytenbach]]; the cabaret ''[[Die Siel van Eugene Marais]]'' by [[Amanda Bothma]]; and J.M. Barrie's classic ''[[Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up]]''.
		+	Browse all new additions via [[Special:NewPages\|recent additions]] or explore the full encyclopaedia at [[The ESAT Entries]].

	'''June 2026 — New entries: people, plays, companies and venues'''		'''June 2026 — New entries: people, plays, companies and venues'''

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 '''May 2025 — The ESAT archive finds a home'''
-: ESAT's growing collection of programmes, posters, photographs and texts is now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] (PARC), established in 2025 at the [[Africa Open Institute]], [[University of Stellenbosch]], , with [[Esther Marie Pauw]] appointed as its first administrator.
+: ESAT's growing collection of programmes, posters, photographs and texts is now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] (PARC), established in 2025 at the [[Africa Open Institute]], [[University of Stellenbosch]], with the help of Prof [[Stephanus Muller]]. [[Esther Marie Pauw]] was appointed as its first administrator.
 '''March 2025 — ESAT recognised at the [[Fleur du Cap]] Theatre Awards'''

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 '''May 2025 — The ESAT archive finds a home'''
-: ESAT's growing collection of programmes, posters, photographs and texts is now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] (PARC), estblished in 2025 at the [[Africa Open Institute]], [[University of Stellenbosch]], , with [[Esther Marie Pauw]] appointed as its first administrator.
+: ESAT's growing collection of programmes, posters, photographs and texts is now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] (PARC), established in 2025 at the [[Africa Open Institute]], [[University of Stellenbosch]], , with [[Esther Marie Pauw]] appointed as its first administrator.
 '''March 2025 — ESAT recognised at the [[Fleur du Cap]] Theatre Awards'''

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-''<small>This page last updated on 27 June 2026.</small>''
+''<small>This page last updated on 4 July 2026.</small>''
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 It is built openly — edited by a team of research editors and written by contributors around the world — and is deliberately structured like a printed encyclopaedia, with an index of entries grouped into sixteen categories.
-Please note that [[ESAT]] was founded in 2010 with its main focus then conceived to be on pre-21st-century theatre, film, media and performance. However, we are very aware that we are now well into the 21st century and that [[ESAT]] will always remain a work in progress. So, though the encyclopaedia will always be incomplete and subject to occasional error, it is the aim of the contyributors to keep it as up to date and relevant as we can make it.
+Please note that [[ESAT]] was founded in 2010 with its main focus then conceived to be on pre-21st-century theatre, film, media and performance. However, we are very aware that we are now well into the 21st century and that [[ESAT]] will always remain a work in progress. So, though the encyclopaedia will always be incomplete and subject to occasional error, it is the aim of the contyributors to keep it as up to date and relevant as we can make it, with the help of our readers.
 For the full history and aims of the project, and list of editors, see '''[[About ESAT]]'''.

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 Fifty new entries have been added to ESAT this month, spanning four centuries of South African theatre history.
-Among the new personality entries, [[Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal]] (19**–) is a bilingual Afrikaans and English poet, playwright and educator whose multilingual drama ''[[Droomwerk]]'' won the 2021 [[ATKV-Woordveertjie]] and was nominated for the [[Hertzog Prize]]. [[Adrian van Wyk]] (19**–), who has also performed as "Diff", is a Cape Town–based performance poet, filmmaker and cultural historian, documented here for the first time. Two historical figures have also been added: [[Vivienne Adley]], a Durban-born singer and actress who performed widely in the mid-twentieth century; and [[Thomas Barrow-Dowling]] (1861–1926), a British-born organist and choirmaster who made a significant contribution to musical life in South Africa.
+Among the new personality entries, [[Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal]] is a bilingual Afrikaans and English poet, playwright and educator whose multilingual drama ''[[Droomwerk]]'' won the 2021 [[ATKV-Woordveertjie]] and was nominated for the [[Hertzog Prize]]. [[Adrian van Wyk]], who has also performed as "Diff", is a Cape Town–based performance poet, filmmaker and cultural historian, documented here for the first time. Two historical figures have also been added: [[Vivienne Adley]], a Durban-born singer and actress who performed widely in the mid-twentieth century; and [[Thomas Barrow-Dowling]] (1861–1926), a British-born organist and choirmaster who made a significant contribution to musical life in South Africa.
 On the plays side, ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'', the 1903 adventure drama by Baroness Orczy, and ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]'', Edward Rose's 1895 adaptation of Anthony Hope's novel, both have new entries documenting their South African performance histories. New SA work is represented by ''[[What the Water Remembers]]'', a collaboratively created multilingual spoken-word production, and ''[[Droomwerk]]'', noted above.

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 * '''Search''' — use the search box at the top right of the page (or press Alt+F) to jump straight to a person, play, venue or company.
-''The encyclopaedia holds over 25,500 full entries. Since its launch in 2011 the main page has been viewed over 2.3 million times, and its articles over 132 million times.''
+''The encyclopaedia holds over 25,500 full entries. Since its launch in 2011 the main page has been viewed over 2.3 million times, and all its articles over 132 million times.''
 == What's New? ==