(Greg
King)
Winners of the 53rd annual Fleur du Cap
Theatre Awards were announced on March 18, 2018, at the Baxter Theatre in Cape
Town.
Among the award winners was celebrated
Durban set designer, Greg King, for his design for Suddenly the Storm.
Suddenly
The Storm formed part of the Playhouse Company’s
2017 Women’s Arts Festival.
To quote from the artSMart review: “Designed
by Durban’s Greg King, the set is a jumble of a work room. There’s a desk and
chair, an old and torn car seat serving as a divan, notice boards, broken
blinds and shelves filled with a chaotic array of files, papers, and an equally
chaotic adjacent workshop. It’s all covered with a corrugated iron roof that
obviously leaks. The props list and their positioning must run to a
considerable number of pages!”
For more than five decades the Fleur du Cap
Theatre Awards together with Fleur du Cap Wines have been honouring excellence
in theatre at an evening of flamboyant celebration that is a highlight of the
Mother City's cultural calendar.
Winners are chosen from productions
performed at professional theatre venues in and around Cape Town. Theatre
practitioners are recognised for their acting, directing, staging and technical
abilities. Category winners received R15,000 and a medallion.
A total of 115 productions from the year
under review were eligible for consideration. The awards, considered in 26
different categories, include special awards for Lifetime Achievement which
went to Alvon Collison, and the Award for Innovation in Theatre was shared by
Imbewu Trust and Kunste Onbeperk.
The Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards are
sponsored by the Fleur du Cap wine brand (www.fleurducap.co.za/)
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