SA Shorts

SA Shorts is a series of six ten minute plays written for University of Johannesburg (UJ) students to perform at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. They then played at UJ Arts Centre in 2012 for a short run.

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The call for unpublished ten minute plays was publicised and thirty five plays were received.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.