(Thanduxolo
Zulu, Stable Theatre's Centre Manager. Pic by Val Adamson)
Durban’s Stable Theatre has announced that
it will present an innovative series of projects during its 2014 financial
year.
These include an exciting mix of
productions in all fields of the performing arts, as well as valuable skills
training and development workshops.
“Stable Theatre is greatly heartened by the
ongoing support of our funders which has enabled us to go ahead with our plans
over the coming months of 2014 and into the new year,” says Stable Theatre
Centre Manager, Thanduxolo Zulu. “In this regard, I wish to acknowledge
Ethekwini Municipality, the KZN Department of Arts and Culture, the National
Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, the National Arts Council and the KZN
Performing Arts Trust for their generous assistance in enabling us to play a
proactive role in support of arts practitioners while enriching the lives of
our audiences both here in Durban and further afield.”
Projects to be undertaken under the aegis
of Stable Theatre include, among others: a year-long three-pronged Trendsetters
skills transfer programme which is already underway, full details of which will
follow shortly; and a mini directors’ festival to be held in June which will
serve as a brief run in Durban for selected shows earmarked to go the 2014 National
Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Other projects include: another popular
Stable Theatre Masonwabe free lunch-hour programme, as well as Faca Kulu’s
musical, Big Girls, to be held at the
theatre in August; a big-league Zulu dance competition in September in
Newcastle; a Choral Competition in October held in association with Esayidi
College in Port Shepstone; an Isicathamiya Competition in November at the
Ndonsa Arts Centre in Ulundi; a Children’s Theatre Festival in December
produced at Stable Theatre in association with ASSITEJ; a Valentine’s Day
Concert in February 2015; and a programme entitled Comedy Meets Poetry, scheduled for next March.
Full particulars about each of these
projects will be released in due course.
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