Twist Durban Theatre Development Projects
will be launching the new book by Roel Twijnstra and Emma Durden, Acting in South Africa: Skills and
Inspirations, in Durban on August 17 at 17h00 at the Bat Centre, Mission
Control and in Midlands over the Hilton Arts Festival, together with the
staging of Twist street theatre shows, from September 13 – 15.
The new book is the third in a series that
includes one on directing and one on producing. The book is a user-friendly
introduction to acting for both stage and screen. The book includes interviews
with actors and with directors, coaches, agents and producers, who talk about
their own experiences and share tips for making it as an actor in South Africa.
Interviewed actors include Andrew Buckland, David Dennis, Dawn Thandeka King,
Dr Jerry Mofokeng and many others.
Sir Roel Twijnstra, originally from the
#Netherlands, is a theatre director, designer and producer based in South
Africa. He was trained as an assistant of Peter Stein and Peter Brook, and has
worked in the USA, Russia, Indonesia, Nepal, Morocco, Uganda, Benin, Guinea,
Zimbabwe and South Africa. He is the head of the Live Performance School at
AFDA in Durban and has lectured at UKZN and DUT. He is a founder of Twist
Theatre Development Projects in 2010.
Dr Emma Durden works in the field of
theatre for development and health. She started working as an actor in 1993 at
NAPAC (the then Natal Performing Arts Council) and has since gone on to be a
researcher, writer, director, theatre-maker and educator. She has a PhD in
Theatre for Development from The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and has
taught at AFDA, UKZN, the University of Cape Town and the University of
Zimbabwe. She runs a health communication consultancy called Act Two Training,
the industrial theatre company, PST Project and manages Twist Theatre
Development Projects.
The publication of the book is made
possible by Twist Projects through generous grants from the National Lotteries
Commission and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in South Africa.
The launch will include a conversation with
some of the acting luminaries who were interviewed for the book, and coincides
with the graduation of the 2018-2019 Twist Community Groups, and with the
annual "Game Changer" award which recognizes the valuable
contribution of individuals to community theatre in KZN.
This short, hour-long event will take place
at the Bat Centre in Durban on Saturday 17 August, and all are welcome. A
similar event will be held as part of the Hilton Festival programme which takes
place from September 13 to 15.
For further information, contact info@twistprojects.co.za
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