Jungle News March 2012
Taking to the streets
Thank you
funders:
to
our
current
Disaster Risk Management
Solid Waste Management
Joan St Leger Lindbergh
Charitable Trust (BoE)
Country Lane Developments
Jungle Theatre Company (JTC) is taking two shows to the ABSA KKNK this
Easter, thanks to the generous support of the National Lottery Distribution
Trust Fund, ABSA KKNK and the National Arts Council.
Following a successful run of performances in Muizenberg, Jungle Theatre
Company’s Laduma Jungle graduates are giving life the opportunity to
imitate art as they prepare for their own big transformation and perform as
professional actors at their first national festival.
Commissioned by ABSA KKNK, this will be Jungle Theatre Company’s first
visit to the festival in Oudtshoorn with their brand new street theatre
production Metamorphosis.
Catch the Metamorphosis characters in the Klein Karoo Festival Parades at
17h00 on Sunday 1 April from Vrede Street and at 10h00 on Monday 2 April
from Bongulethu Police Station.
The full performance is on at the Pendeldiens Grasperk on the corner of
Voortrekker Road and Baron van Reede at 13h00 on Tuesday 3 April; 16h00
on Wednesday 4 April and 10h00 Thursday 5 April.
Alongside Metamorphosis, a newly developed and translated Vallende
Maan (originally Moon In The Sky) has a run of 3 performances at the
Queens Mall Amfiteater during the festival. Jaqueline Dommisse has been
back in the Jungle fold, directing a new cast which includes two Laduma
graduates Candice Waries and Stacey Francke who join Unathi Speelman and
Artistic Director Vincent Meyburgh.
Vallende Maan is on at the Queen’s Mall Amfiteater: at 14h00 on Monday 2
April, 09h00 on Tuesday 3 April and 12h00 on Wednesday 4 April. Tickets are
R50 and can be booked through Computicket.
JTC will also be linking up with Lunchbox Theatre’s Towerfluit programme
offering a drama based workshop for local youth. Towerfluit participants will
have the opportunity to see both Vallende Maan and Metamorphosis.
JTC would like to thank the eMzantsi carnival and community building
project who are assisting JTC with transport to and from the festival through
a trade exchange.
National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund
Konica Minolta
The Foschini Group CSI
ABSA KKNK
Harlequin Foundation
National Arts Council
P.O. Box 224 Muizenberg 7950 – Tel 021 788 5641/Fax 021 788 5643 –
[email protected] / www.jungletheatre.co.za
033-014-NPO
Jungle News March 2012
Jiving in Overstrand
NEWS IN BRIEF
You can catch Jungle Theatre
Company’s Metamorphosis this
weekend as part of Theatre Arts
Admin Collective’s Family Season,
at 10h00 at Capricorn Primary
School on Vrygrond Avenue in
Vrygrond and at 16h00 in
Observatory Kids Park, corner of
Station and Arnold roads. There is
a suggested donation of R40 per
adult and R20 per child for the
performance in Observatory.
Jungle Theatre Company toured Jungle sapling and the importance
schools and communities in the of trees.
Overstrand area in February, WCC also organised a community
thanks to the generous support of performance in the township of
TGF Corporate Social Investment. Zwelihle which is the focus area of
JTC partnered with Whale Coast their urban greening programme.
Conservation’s (WCC) iKamva Letu The tour, which reached 3000
Zwelihle Community Project to beneficiaries in total, was a
promote urban greening.
success and overall received a
The Jungle Jive team visited a total great
response
from
the
of 7 schools in the areas of participating schools.
Sandbaai, Hermanus, Zwelihle and “In the future those learners can
Mount Pleasant. JTC recast the take that skill to the broader
production
with
Laduma community of the school and of
graduates:
Candice
Waries, Zwelihle,” said a teacher at
Nokubonga Jita and Siyawandisa Zwelihle Primary School. JTC says
Badi who joined Vincent Meyburgh thanks for WCC for organising the
in telling the story of saving the logistics and trees.
Baby
YES to Resilient Cities
Jungle Theatre Company has been
out on tour with City of Cape
Town’s Disaster Risk Management
and
Provincial
Government
Western
Cape’s
Disaster
Management as part of the Youth
Environmental Schools Resilient
Cities campaign.
Touring across Cape Town as well
as further afield in the in
Drakenstein and Overstrand
municipalities, JTC has taken the
climate change and alternative
energy production Father Sun to
13 government and independent
schools.
Thanks to the generous support of
the National Lottery Distribution
Trust Fund, learners at 5 schools
received
Umlambo
Wobomi
River Of Life during National
Wetlands Week, which included a
performance at Green Point Urban
Park. Provincial Department of
Environmental
Affairs
and
Development Planning invited
Jungle Theatre Company to
perform
at
their
event
at
Noluthando Primary School in
Khayelitsha on Wetlands Day.
Jungle Theatre Company took two
shows to the Oude Libertas
summer
season.
Umlambo
Wobomi - River of Life and The
Whale Show were performed as
part of the children’s programme.
The short community tour of
Rubbish Wrap with City of Cape
Town’s Solid Waste department
and Zibi the ostrich culminated in
early January.
Jungle Theatre Company joined
the eMzantsi think tank sessions in
February
to
develop
the
overarching project theme and to
devise
the
new
schools
programme for 2012. Facilitators
Ntombifuthi Mkhasibe, Stacey
Francke and Candice Waries will
be part of the multidisciplinary arts
eMzansti primary school twinning
programme in terms 2 and 3.
P.O. Box 224 Muizenberg 7950 – Tel 021 788 5641/Fax 021 788 5643 –
[email protected] / www.jungletheatre.co.za
033-014-NPO