Community Theatre Festival
Contents
- 1 As a generic term
- 2 Specific Community Theatre festivals
- 2.1 The Market Theatre Laboratory's Community Theatre Festival
- 2.2 The Ikhwezi Festival and Zabalaza Theatre Festival at the Baxter Theatre
- 2.3 The Mzansi Fela Community Arts Festival at the State Theatre
- 2.4 The Isigcawu Community Theatre Festival at the Ekhaya Multi-Arts Centre
- 2.5 The Zabalaza Theatre Festival at the Baxter Theatre Centre
- 3 Return to
As a generic term
A term used to refer to festivals set up to showcase work from Community Theatre practitioners and groups. There have been a number of such initiatives in South Africa.
See also Community Theatre and Festival
Specific Community Theatre festivals
The Market Theatre Laboratory's Community Theatre Festival
This originated as the Fieldworkers Festival in 198*, but became the the MarketLaboratory Annual Community Festival or Market Lab Annual Community Theatre Festival in 1992. The project is intended to prepare and present the work of up to 50 community theatre groups and present a showcase of these in a semi-professional setting. It is put on annually at the Market Theatre Laboratory, Johannesburg.
See Market Theatre.
The Ikhwezi Festival and Zabalaza Theatre Festival at the Baxter Theatre
In 2011 the Baxter Theatre Centre changed the name of the Ikhwezi Festival to the Zabalaza Theatre Festival, with a new managing team, vision, format and programme.
Sources
http://www.baxter.co.za/about/zabalaza/
The Mzansi Fela Community Arts Festival at the State Theatre
Founded in 2007, this festival has had a Community Theatre component from the start, to showcase the work of all the community art groups involved in the Fieldwork Programme run by the State Theatre. The two-week long festival also involves masterclasses by individual artists from the arts industry.
In 2010, two groups that had been participating in the Mzansi Fela Festival since 2007 toured the townships in and around Pretoria with their own plays that they developed while in the Fieldwork Programme. Since 2011 successful groups have been given the opportunity to mount professional productions at the Momentum Theatre and the National Arts Festival.
Sources
State Theatre website[1]
The Isigcawu Community Theatre Festival at the Ekhaya Multi-Arts Centre
A festival that provides a platform for community theatre and for the new performances developed by the Twist Theatre Development Projects in Durban and surroundings.
Sources
http://www.twistprojects.co.za/partners/
The Zabalaza Theatre Festival at the Baxter Theatre Centre
This is referred to as a "development festival", and is presented annually by the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town. In essence a community festival which showcases community productions from all over the Western Cape, in an effort to develop local artistry, it was first presented in 2011, and usually takes place in March.
Sources
"Zabalaza Theatre Festival is here!" Publicity letter from Leon van Zyl (leon.vanzyl@uct.ac.za), sent on behalf of the Baxter Theatre Centre , Friday, 11 March, 2016.
Baxter Theatre Centre website at http://www.baxter.co.za/
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