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2019 2018
Months
April May June September November December
Bunnicula
2018-04-11

Name of Production: Bunnicula

Script By: Deborah and James Howe

Directed By: Debeer Cloete

Venue: Scaena Rehearsal Room Theatre, UFS-Main Campus

Language: English

Genre:Children's Theatre

Date and times:

  • 11 April @ 11:00
  • 12 April @ 11:00
  • 13 April @ 11:00
  • 13 April @ 18:00
  • 14 April @ 10:00
  • 14 April @ 12:00

Price: R 25.00 per person and/or R20.00 per person for groups of 10 or more.

Bookings: Computicket (0861 915 8000)

Group Bookings: Karen Combrinck ((051) 401 2160)

Media Release

A dancing cat, a howling dog, and a vampire bunny. The perfect pet combination for any family. It is a dark and stormy night and Chester (the family cat) and Harold (the family dog) sit waiting for their owners to return home from the movies. Chester and Harold are more than just pets, they are good friends too. When the Monroes finally get home, they come bearing a surprise: they have found a bunny in the movie theatre. However, this is no ordinary rabbit … this is the extraordinary Bunnicula. When the family’s produce starts losing its juice, Chester thinks he knows what is causing the fantastic phenomenon. Bunnicula is a vampire! Or maybe Chester’s imagination is getting the better of him. Singing and dancing their way through this hilarious mystery, the furry friends find room in their hearts, and in their home, for one very unique bunny.

This unique musical Children’s theatre production is directed by DeBeer Cloete and features second-year Drama students in the South African premiere of Deborah and James Howe’s Bunnicula. The production runs from the 11th to the 14th op April at the Scaena Rehearsal Room on the UFS Campus and tickets are available through Computicket. The production is recommended for children 7 years and up and everyone young at heart.


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THE BOW PROJECT

THE BOW PROJECT
with the “Nightingale String Quartet” from Denmark and Mantombi Matotiyana
26 Julie 2009
Odeion
16:00

 


The UFS Department of Music presents the third concert in the series of Special Project Concerts: “THE BOW PROJECT”.

The Bow Project was conceived by New Music Indaba director Michael Blake in 2002 as part of the National Arts Festival. It has developed over the past 6 years as a platform for South African composers from many different traditions to study and reinterpret or reimagine, for string quartet, the uhadi bow songs of the great Nofinishi Dywili. It was always the intention to undertake a national tour with highlights of the project, and to record that programme for CD release. Following the presentation of parts of the Bow Project in Europe last year, this has now become possible. A young female string quartet from Denmark – the Nightingale String Quartet - consisting of Gunvor Sihm (violin), Josefine Dalsgaard (violin), Marie Louise Broholt Jensen (viola) and Louisa Schwab (cello) will join Mantombi Matotiyana for a two-week tour of concerts and workshops plus a CD recording in South Africa in July 2009.

The original artistic objective of the project was to encourage South African composers to engage with traditional music as a compositional resource. Rather than just using some indigenous elements in their work, they were each asked to make a transcription of a song, and use that as the basis for their work. The Bow Project concerts at the National Arts Festival, with the combination of Mantombi Matotiyana singing the original songs, and a string quartet playing the composers reinterpretations, regularly drew full houses and several times required extra performances. The Bow Project has been hailed both nationally and internationally as one of the most important South African musical projects ever.

ADMISSION:
R50 (adults)
R30 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (Shoprite/Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall Information desk, online at www.computicket.com) or at the doors. Telephonic bookings: 011 – 340 8000 or 083 915 8000.

ENQUIRIES:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 - 401 2504)
 

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