
The Playhouse Company’s 2011 Test Driving the Arts development initiative runs in the Playhouse Port-Cochere monthly until December. These popular lunch hour programmes offer a free platform for aspiring groups wanting to make the leap from the amateur to professional performance circuits, in Pantsula, Hip Hop, Gospel, Isicathamiya, Afro Jazz, Township Maskandi, Isigekle and other contemporary music and dance styles.
Test Drive on October 11 runs between 13h00 and 14h00. These events offer audiences enjoyable lunch-hour recreation in the heart of Durban’s CBD, while affording valuable talent-spotting opportunities for event organisers looking to enrol fresh new artists.