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Magnet Theatre
Innovative and exciting theatre production, GLIMMER, premiers at Magnet Theatre for a limited season from 23 – 31 August 2024.
Magnet Theatre is thrilled to announce GLIMMER, a new play directed and written by award winning theatre maker and puppeteer, Roshina Ratnam, 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 23 – 31 August 2024 at Magnet Theatre: Cnr Lower Main & St Michael’s Roads in Observatory.
Preview 1: 23 August @ 11h00
Preview 2: 24th August @ 14h00
Opening: 24th August @ 19h00
Monday 26th – Friday 30th @ 11h00
Saturday 31st @ 14h00 and 19h00
Tickets R120 for general admission with concessions for scholars, students, pensioners @ R80. Bookings for the shows can be made on Webtickets and booking for school groups by contacting Magnet Theatre at projects@magnettheatre.co.za /office: 021 448 3436
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