Student Theatre Festival

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The Student Theatre Festival is a showcase at the National Arts Festival for young talent from tertiary institutions across South Africa. It is the only Student Theatre Festival of its kind in South Africa, and each university showcases one play which is eligible for various award categories.

History

Previous winners

2012

Sponsored by the South African Post Office

2013

Sponsored by the South African Post Office

A panel of advisors comprising Gez Casey, Smal Ndaba, Christina Kennedy and Peter Terry recognised enormous potential in the next generation of professionals with two institutions featuring prominently on the awards front. The Market Theatre Lab received kudos for the poster design and overall marketing campaign of their production of Milk and Honey, and UCT taking the honours for Most Promising Student Director (Mira Sydow), Most Promising Student Writer (Mathew Baldwin, Wynne Bredenkamp and Taryn Wyngaardt), Best Student Theatre Production, and the floating Cape Triangular Trophy, for their production titled Behind Every Yawn There is a Silent Shout.

Merit Awards were presented to Jess Harrison from Rhodes University, recognising promise in directorial conceptualisation and design; to The Market Theatre Lab’s production of Milk and Honey as the production with the greatest viability for a professional run; and to Oakfields College’s Journey, the SA Post Office choice for showcasing creativity and innovation.

2014

Sponsored by the South African Post Office

  • Festival’s Marketing Team’s Choice Award for Poster Design: Oakfield College’s poster for their production Flesh.

A panel of advisors comprising Gez Casey, Peter Terry, Warona Seane and Jacqueline Domisse recognised enormous potential amongst the seventeen university productions that were presented at the Festival this year.

2015

2016

Awards for the best works by students at the National Arts Festival were decided by a panel, convened by Jacqueline Dommisse, that included Lee-Ann van Rooi and Bertina Johnson.

2017

  • Best Marketing and Publicity for a Student Theatre Production: Not awarded in 2017

2019

Sources

LitNet, 10 July 2012

BIZCOMMUNITY, 3 July 2013

Rhodes University Latest News Archive, 2018 https://www.ru.ac.za/latestnews/archives/2018/award-winningstudentdirectortacklesanotherboldplayatstudenttheatrefest.html

https://nationalartsfestival.prezly.com/national-arts-festival-awards-arts-community-as-festival-closes

https://creativefeel.co.za/2017/07/2017-award-winners-honoured-at-national-arts-festival/

http://news.artsmart.co.za/2019/07/standard-bank-ovation-award-winners.html

media update, 8 July 2013

Grocott's Mail, 15 July 2014


See also Festival and Grahamstown Foundation

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