(Thabisao Mkhize &
Ayanda Mngoma in the shadow of Zuzumuzi Mdamba in “Marvellous Mixtures”. Pic Val Adamson)
The 2015 DUT Children’s Theatre Festival profiles
award-winning playwright Neil Coppen and will feature four plays for young
audiences, all penned by him, currently being staged at the Courtyard Theatre
at the Durban University of Technology from 21 – 23 September 2015.
The DUT Department of Drama and Performance Studies’ 2015
DUT Children’s Theatre Festival, which is now in its fifth year, is proud to
profile and celebrate four plays by South Africa’s award-winning playwright
Neil Coppen an outstanding performer himself, who writes and directs his own
works both in South Africa and internationally.
Performances are as follows:
September 21: Grandpa
Grump and the Magical Junk Shop (09h30) and Marika Morkels (11h30)
September 22: Marvellous
Mixtures (09h30) and Marika Morkels
(11h30)
September 23: Grandpa
Grump and the Magical Junk Shop (09h30) and Tin Bucket Drum (11h30)
The 2015 DUT Children’s Theatre Festival runs at the
Courtyard Theatre at the Durban University of Technology from September 21 to
23.