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Noises Off
2018-09-29

Script by: Michael Frayn

Directed by: Thys Heydenrych

Vanue:  Wynand Mouton Theatre, UFS-Main Campus

Language: English

Genre: Comedy

 

Date and times:

26 September @ 19h30

27 September @ 19h30

28 September @ 19h30

29 September @ 19h30

 

Tickets: 

R 40.00 per person

R30.00 for students, scholars,

R25.00 for oensioners

Bookings:  Computicket (0861 915 8000) 

The British play Noises Off is bound to have you in stitches. Written by Michael Frayn, Noises Off can be considered a farce within a comedy and gives an inside look at all the antics of the theatre: the ups, downs, backstabbing, and relationships that form while a play is being produced and performed.

Noises Off follow a group of actors preparing for a cringe-worthy production called “Nothing-On.” What follows is on-stage misdirection, misunderstandings, doors that will not work, and props that aren’t there. Theatregoers are promised a glimpse of what happens backstage as the stage will literally turn. The actor’s best and worst sides are displayed, revealing their mysteries of trying to keep track of their newspapers, plants, lovers, missing cast members and a few plates of Sardines.

Noises Off will be featuring third-year students of the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts of the University of the Free State. Directed by Thys Heydenrych. It will be performed from 26 to 29 September 2018 at the Wynand Mouton Theatre, UFS campus, at 19:30. Tickets are available at Computicket.

This production is appreciated by an audience of age 15 and over because of a more … grown-up storyline.

The production is made possible with the support from Creative Kilowatt and Iewers Nice.


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Concerto for an African cellist (World Première)
 
 

-  An exceptional collaboration stretched over three continents -

19 March 2013

Odeion

19:30

featuring

Heleen du Plessis – cello

Malcolm Nay – piano

Magdalena de Vries – marimba

OSM Camerata directed by Hans Huyssen

The renowned South African cellist Heleen du Plessis (currently Williams Evans Executant lecturer for cello at the Music Department of the University of Otaga, New Zealand) is the initiator of a project with the title Cello for Africa. The project is a practical investigation of new cello repertoire with a specific focus on the instrument’s suitainability and potential role in music of hybrid styles, resulting from contemporary reflections on South Africa’s diverse musical cultures.  Envisaged as a series of performances in New Zealand and South Africa with ensuing a CD recording – she wishes to present and advocate South African compositions for cello in her current professional environment in New Zealand. Simultaneously it amounts to a reflection on the thrust of her career as an international cellist, with a strong prevailing awareness of her African roots and a definite urge to convey this sentiment and its energy by means of her unique performance style. On 19 March 2013 the Odeion School of Music (OSM) presents a concert with a varied but carefully combined programme of early and contemporary orchestral and chamber music.

Heleen has requested several new South African works for cello, two of which will be premièred on this occasion: she will be the soloist in Hans Huyssen’s Concerto for an African Cellist (with the OSM Camerata, directed by the composer).  Given his specific interest in indigenous African music, the SAMRO Foundation has granted Du Plessis' request to commission Hans Huyssen to this task.  Together with Magdalena de Vries, she will première Peter Klatzow’s A Sense of Place for marimba and cello.  Commemorating the 100th birthday of Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976) the programme furthermore includes his beautiful Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 65, for which Malcom Nay joins Du Plessis. 

Cellist Heleen du Plessis

http://heleenduplessis.com/

Odeion School of Music Camerata (UFS) directed by Hans Huyssen

http://www.huyssen.de/

Admission:

R110 (adults), R70 (pensioners), R40 (students and learners)

Tickets available at Computicket or at the door

Enquiries:   

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

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