The 34th Annual Sancta One-Act Play festival will take place
in Secunda, Mpumalanga, at the Johannes Stegmann Theatre from March 2 to 7.
Among the productions to be presented will be Seasons of Love back at the Festival for
the second time. Produced by The Gay and Lesbian Outreach Organisation in
Pietermaritzburg, the performance will take place on March 6 at 18h00.
Tickets R20 take the form of a Sancta Badge, which can be
purchased from the groups, via the theatre or direct from Sancta Representative
Henning Botha of Gay Planet Pawn shop in Trichardt on 082 440 8120).
These badges have multiple entry use – so you pay R20 to see
all 15 plays. They can also be used for fundraising by schools, churches,
charities, who can buy, say, 10 badges for R200 and sell them for higher prices
and raise funds. The main aim is to get as much audience as possible to the
theatre and encourage particularly youth studying drama at schools to attend.
The festival has three professional adjudicators- Hazel
Bilsland-Brown, Tallowah Phindile Suntshwa and Karin van der Laag, who are well
known in their professional fields and from previous Sancta Festivals. They
will give a verbal critique on the plays seen every night and written crits are
provided after the festival. On the Friday night the top three plays for the
week are announced and these will re-perform on the Saturday night at a Gala
Performance and Awards evening.
The plays performed also have an opportunity to be entered
into the prestigious professional Naledi Awards where there is a Community
Theatre Award Category.
Sancta is also a member of IATA - The International Amateur
Theatre Association, Assitej SA , also an International body, and Pansa KZN.
For more information, visit http://www.sancta.org.za/festivals.htm
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