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Re: Fugard Festival in South Africa
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2011, 10:36:10 PM »
Absa Fugard Festival
The 2011 Absa Fugard Festival will be held from 23-26 Sept 2011.  The annual Festival held in Nieu Bethesda, South Africa over the heritage weekend is the biggest Fugard celebration in the world.

Boesman and Lena


My Life Re-viewed


The Captain's Tiger


Fugue'd


Lied van die Vallei (Valley Song in Afrikaans)


Hallo en Koebaai (Hello and Goodbye in Afrikaans)


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Re: Fugard Festival in South Africa 2011
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2011, 12:28:25 PM »
The 2011 Absa Fugard Festival will be held from 23-26 Sept 2011 and the organizers are now awaiting applications.

Artists who want to be part of the 2011 Festival have until 15 Mar 2011 to submit their applications.  The annual Festival held in Nieu Bethesda, South Africa over the heritage weekend is the biggest Fugard celebration in the world.

For details click here www.iainfisher.com/fugard/fugard-news.html

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Re: Fugard Festival in South Africa 2009
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2009, 09:54:48 PM »
Update, yes there is theatre!!!!.

A major festival in Nieu Bethesda, South Africa, from 1-4 Oct 2009.  Two Fugard plays, Road to Mecca (which is set in Nieu Bethesda) and an Afrikaans Hello and Goodbye "Athol Fugard se Hallo and Goodbye vertaal deur Nieu Bethesda se bekroonde vertaler Idil Sheard is vanjaar se vlagskip vertoning. Gespeel deur Yvonne Batista en Jacques Batista. Regie en ontwerp ook deur Jacques Batista."

As well as the plays there is music (Lize Beekman, Valiant Swart) and a play and a evening about Helen Martins and the Owlhouse.
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Fugard Festival in South Africa
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2009, 12:43:16 AM »
The Fugard Festival will be held from 1-4 Oct 2009 in Nieu Bethesda, South Africa.

Not theatre, but art, from the town of Helen Martins, the subject of The Road to Mecca.

More details soon.
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