SA Shorts

SA Shorts is the encompassing performance and publication title for a series of six ten minute plays by various authors.

The full published is: Shorts for a Microwave Generation. A UJ Arts & Culture Collection

BEING WRITTEN

The original collection

Written for University of Johannesburg (UJ) students to perform at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. A call for unpublished ten minute plays was sent out and thirty-five play texts were received. Six were selected and performed, and those texts were later published by Junkets Publisher as Shorts for a Microwave Generation. A UJ Arts & Culture Collection (Collected Series No. 5).

The works included are: Losing the Plot by Anthony Akerman, The Opening by Rob K. Baum, Dance the Dance by Tristan Jacobs, Metaphorically Speaking by Zanandi Botes, Kill Me, Please! by Rhea MacCullum and Wave by Renos Spanoudes and Alby Michaels.

Performances of the programme as a unit

2012: Performed at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in July by UJ stuidents, directed by Alby Michaels, assisted by Motlatji Ditodi and Rethabele Mothobi, woth designs by Wilhelm Disbergen, management by Jade Bowers, technical operation by Sizwe Moloko and Onkgopotse Nene.

They then played at UJ Arts Centre in 2012 for a short run.

For any performances of the individual plays, see the entry on each.

The works in order of presentation were: Losing the Plot by Anthony Ackerman, The Opening by Rob K Baum, Dance the Dance by Tristan Jacobs, Metaphorically Speaking by Zanandi Botes, Kill Me, Please! By Rhea MacCullum and Wave by Renos Spanoudes and Alby Michaels.

SA Shorts, Quickies for a Microwave Generation, What I do, see, hear, eat and drink. (Posted on August 3, 2012 by moirads)[1]

The call for unpublished ten minute plays was publicised and thirty five plays were received. Six plays were selected, published by Junkets as Collected Series No. 5 S A Shorts for a microwave generation, A UJ Arts & Culture Collection and produced with Alby Michaels as director, assisted by Motlatji Ditodi and Rethabele Mothobi. A brilliant, brilliant design was created by Wilhelm Disbergen using screens painted with blackboard paint. The actors used chalk from time to time. Jade Bowers is the resident stage manager, technical operation by Sizwe Moloko and Onkgopotse Nene is the stagehand. The scripts were available for sale in they foyer at R100 each. This is apparently the norm at many theatres in other parts of the world.

SA Shorts, Quickies for a Microwave Generation, is on at the UJ Arts Centre Theatre, Kingsway Campus until August 11.ation]]