| What: Magnet Theatre’s GLIMMER When: August 23 – 31, 2024 Where: Magnet Theatre: Cnr Lower Main & St Michael’s Roads in Observatory Booking: https://www.webtickets.co.za/event.aspx?itemid=1547475200 Booking for school groups: E-mailprojects@magnettheatre.co.za or call 021 448 3436 Company: Magnet Theatre Youth Company 2024 – Lusanda Soboyise, Melusi Molefe, Yvonne Msebenzi, Mihlali Bele, Emmanuel Ntsamba, Karabo Hope Banda, Sanele Phillip, Azola Mkhabile and Buhle T. Stefane Director: Roshina Ratnam Writers: Roshina Ratnam and Mongiwekhaya Set and costume design: Hansie Visagie (assisted by Kosie Smit) Lighting design: Themba Stewart Sound design and composition: Pierre-Henri Wicomb |
Thrilling news is Magnet Theatre’s new play, GLIMMER, featuring the Magnet Theatre Youth Company 2024. The members of the Magnet Theatre Youth Company 2024 come from all over the country, graduates from UCT, Magnet Theatre, The Market Theatre Laboratory and Rhodes University. Direction is by award winning Roshina Ratnam. The play casts a gaze on the challenges for adolescents as they navigate a world dominated by technology. Using objects as puppets “the play reveals aspects of the human condition that the human body cannot.” Read on for more. Info as supplied:
Innovative and exciting theatre production, GLIMMER, premiers at Magnet Theatre for a limited season from August 23 – 31, 2024.
Magnet Theatre is thrilled to announce GLIMMER, a new play directed and written by award winning theatre maker and puppeteer and made possible by a grant from the National Lotteries Commission.
On the heels of the huge success of SURGE (2024 Fleur du Cap Best Theatre Production for Children and Young People nominee), Roshina Ratnam and Magnet Theatre’s New Youth Company team up once again to bring you yet another cutting-edge play, GLIMMER.
Childhood friends, Lihle, Zazi and Sam, find themselves drifting apart. It all seems like a natural part of growing up until a series of events lead to a tragic outcome. Have the three childhood friends been growing apart naturally or is there something insidious causing a rift between them?
Since the invention of the internet some forty years ago, followed by the advent of smartphones and social media, the ways in which we experience the world and each other have fundamentally transformed. GLIMMER delves into the challenges teenagers face today as they navigate their way through school, experience their first love, grapple with the complexities of online culture, and build their identities on various platforms. GLIMMER explores the joys and pitfalls of growing up in our current technological era, offering a vivid portrayal of the contemporary adolescent experience.
Using objects as puppets the play reveals aspects of the human condition that the human body cannot. GLIMMER is a poignant exploration of choices and their consequences, both positive and negative, what it means to be human at the current times.
Set and costume design is by Hansie Visagie (assisted by Kosie Smit); lighting design by Themba Stewart and sound design and composition by Pierre-Henri Wicomb.
The production will also launch Magnet Theatre’s exciting New Youth Company 2024, featuring a cast of young artists performing together for the very first time – Lusanda Soboyise, Melusi Molefe, Yvonne Msebenzi, Mihlali Bele, Emmanuel Ntsamba, Karabo Banda, Sanele Phillip, Azola Mkhabile and Buhle Stefane. This new company follows on from the first Magnet Theatre Youth Company that was responsible for offering exciting excellence in Oedipus at Colonus #aftersophocles (nominated for 11 awards) and winning for Best Ensemble at the 2024 Fleur du cap Awards; and Ikrele leChiza … the sermon directed by Mandla Mbothwe. The members of the Magnet Theatre Youth Company 2024 come from all over the country, graduates from UCT, Magnet Theatre, The Market Theatre Laboratory and Rhodes University.
GLIMMER will be performed from August 23 – 31, 2024 at Magnet Theatre: Cnr Lower Main & St Michael’s Roads in Observatory.
Preview 1: August 23 @ 11h00
Preview 2: August 24 @ 14h00
Opening: August 24 @ 19h00
Monday August 26 to Friday August 30 @ 11h00
Saturday August 31 @ 4h00 and 19h00
Tickets R120 for general admission with concessions for scholars, students, pensioners @ R80. Bookings for the shows can be made on Webtickets:
https://www.webtickets.co.za/event.aspx?itemid=1547475200and booking for school groups by contacting Magnet Theatre at projects@magnettheatre.co.za /office: 021 448 3436
Please view a 2-minute trailer of Surge – Magnet’s previous puppet show directed by Roshina Ratnam here :https://youtu.be/sXlrR1qdd08
Magnet Theatre is one of South Africa’s best known independent physical theatre companies that has been operating in and outside of South Africa for the past 37 years. In addition to creating original, award-winning productions, Magnet runs multi-layered educational programmes that are aimed at the transformation of young people’s lives and the theatre industry as a whole. Our programmes help youth bridge the gap to tertiary education and employment in the creative economy. To date, our youth development programmes have been instrumental in facilitating access for 36 first generation university attendees. On average over the last 5 years, an incredible 92% of all graduates either find employment (short or long contracts/permanent employment), are self-employed or furthering their studies.
Magnet Theatre is generously supported by: The National Lotteries Commission, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, HCI Foundation, TK Foundation, The Potjie Foundation, MAID Foundation, HCI Foundation, HCI Foundation Community Transport Support Programme, Western Cape Government Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, Andrea Fine Theatre Bursary, Ampersand Foundation, The City of Cape Town, Business And Arts South Africa, Redefine Properties, University of Cape Town, Ben Strauss Legal and the Carl & Emily Fuchs Foundation.
✳ Sanele Phillip, Lusanda Soboyise, Yvonne Msebenzi and Emmanuel Ntsamba in Magnet Theatre’s Glimmer. Sponsored content. Images supplied.
