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.
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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.
Awards and winners
The awards recognise excellence in theatre by giving awards to top professionals for distinguished acting, directing and technical abilities in 16 different categories. There is also a Special Lifetime Achievement Award and the People’s Choice Award, which are announced and presented at the ceremony.
2023
Held at the Oude Libertas Amphitheatre in Stellenbosch on Sunday, 26 March 2023.
Winners of the 58th Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards are:
1. AWARD FOR MOST PROMISING STUDENT Mikayla Joy Brown | University of Stellenbosch/Honours
2. BEST NEW SOUTH AFRICAN SCRIPT Nadia Davids | Hold Still
3. BEST NEW DIRECTOR Carlo Daniels | No Complaints - New Day, New Dawn
4. BEST THEATRE PRODUCTION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Marinda Engelbrecht and Margit Meyer-Rödenbeck | Vlooi en die geheim/Kipper and the Secret
5. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE Marcel Meyer, Matthew Baldwin and Lungile Lallie | Contested Bodies | Doctor James Barry, Lord Charles Somerset and John Nobody
6. BEST PERFORMANCE IN A REVUE, CABARET OR ONE-PERSON SHOW Daniel Newton | Shadow Boxing | Flynn
7. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MUSICAL OR MUSIC THEATRE SHOW Earl Gregory | Star+Crossed | Billy
8. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL OR MUSIC THEATRE SHOW Isabella Jane | Star+Crossed | Bess
9. BEST PUPPETRY DESIGN Adrian Kohler | Handspring Puppet Company | Life and Times of Michael K
10. BEST LIGHTING DESIGN Gideon Lombard | Karatara
11. BEST SET DESIGN Greg King | Fordsburg’s Finest
12. BEST COSTUME DESIGN Marcel Meyer | Contested Bodies
13. BEST SOUND DESIGN, ORIGINAL MUSIC, SOUNDSCAPE OR LIVE PERFORMANCE Gideon Lombard | Karatara | Sound design
14. BEST PERFORMANCE IN AN OPERA – MALE Conroy Scott | Le Nozze di Figaro | Figaro
15. BEST PERFORMANCE IN AN OPERA – FEMALE Brittany Smith | Le Nozze di Figaro | Susanna
16. BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A PLAY Carlo Daniels | The Unlikely Secret Agent | Various roles
17. BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A PLAY Berenice Barbier | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Honey
18. BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS IN A PLAY Mwenya Kabwe | Hold Still | Rosa Feigel
19. BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR IN A PLAY Mncedisi Shabangu | Blood Knot | Zacharia
20. BEST DIRECTOR Fred Abrahamse | Contested Bodies
21. BEST PRODUCTION Baxter Theatre Centre; Theater der Welt, Düsseldorf; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg | Life and Times of Michael K
Judges
The judges are drawn from the industry and include critics, academics, and other informed workers in the industry.
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, where South African entertainers perform and tickets are made available to the general public through Computicket. All funds generated are donated to development in the performing arts.
See also
Wikipedia [2].
Sources
Grütter, Wilhelm, CAPAB 25 Years, 1987. Unpublished research. 365-366.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur_du_Cap_Theatre_Awards
The Distell website at http://www.distell.co.za/
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