Amanda Bothma

Amanda Bothma is a playwright and stage director.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

A board member of the East London Guild Theatre and founder of Wela Kapela Productions, she has also written and/or directed a number of cabarets and children's plays.

She devised and directed Cinderella for the East London Guild Theatre (2004).

As director

Productions directed by her include:

2018: A Lad 'n a Lamp (Wela Kapela)

2019: Spot, The Fearless Fish (Wela Kapela), Cinderella (Wela Kapela), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Wela Kapela), A Star is Born: the Rise and Fall of Judy Garland (Wela Kapela)

2020: Next!!! (Wela Kapela)

2021: Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat (Wela Kapela), Liewe Heksie (Wela Kapela), Damsel in Distress (Wela Kapela), Mad About The Boys (Wela Kapela)

2022: Once on This Island (Wela Kapela), The Jackal and the Wolf (Wela Kapela), Julie Andrews Uncut (Wela Kapela), Vincent (Wela Kapela)

As writer

She has written a number of plays and revues/cabarets, including:

• A Star is Born: the Rise and Fall of Judy Garland (2019)

• Spot, The Fearless Fish (2019)

• Next!!! (2020)

• Damsel in Distress (2021)

• Mad About The Boys (2021)

• The Jackal and the Wolf (2022)

• Julie Andrews Uncut (2022)

• Vincent (2022)

Sources

https://www.facebook.com/amanda.bothma.37/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGb3DmpuWJY/

https://www.guildtheatre.co.za/events/mad-about-the-boys/

https://www.guildtheatre.co.za/events/damsel-in-distress/

https://www.brucedennill.co.za/2025/07/26/theatre-review-the-tramp-speaking-through-silence-or-chaplin-at-the-bit/

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