Posts Tagged ‘Christiaan Olwagen’

Q&A with Christiaan Olwagen

Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:07 0 Comments

The 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist for Theatre, Christiaan Olwagen, presents A Doll’s House in Grahamstown on 11 July 2015, at the National Arts Festival. (Photo: CuePix/Mia van der Merwe)

I n between showings of his fast selling out adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, Cue managed to grab director and 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist for Theatre Christiaan Olwagen for a quick chat and a photoshoot. Olwagen made his name at Festival directing the self-described appropriation Woza Andries? in 2010.

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A measured balance

Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:41 0 Comments

Nat Ramabulana and Janna Ramos Violante perform in The Imagined Land at Vicky’s, Grahamstown, 10 July 2015, at the 2015 National Arts Festival. The Imagined Land is a new play by acclaimed writer Craig Higginson in which a famous Zimbabwean novelist, modelled on Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing, is confronted by her biographer with difficult memories from her past. Photo: CuePix / Jane Berg.

The National Arts Festival pretty much reflects the theatre scene as a whole. There is still not enough black theatre, and there are not enough black audience members. It’s largely a matter of economics but it’s also related to artistic will.

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Standard Bank Young Artist Winners 2015

Friday, 10 July 2015 12:33 0 Comments

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These are the Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winners for 2015.

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