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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

SEASONS OF LOVE FOR SANCTA



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