DAPHNE KUHN proudly presents its LUNCH HOUR WINTER MUSIC CONCERT PROGRAMME

“If music be the food of love…….play on!”

THEATRE ON THE SQUARE is proud to announce its classical music concert line-up for Autumn 2022. There will be some non-classical surprises and other musical genres as well. Start the year on a high note with a diverse programme of concerts featuring some of South Africa’s most celebrated musicians.

The theatre will be following all the health regulations to protect our patrons, artists and staff alike. We urge patrons to wear their masks and bring their vaccine certificates along to reduce the risk of infection. With all the health protocols in place and spaced seating, we are ready to welcome you back to THEATRE ON THE SQUARE! 

Tickets: Unreserved tickets will be available at the box office from 12.30pm.
Time of Concert: 1pm every Friday
Ticket price: R100 or R60 for members.  

Concert Line Up: 

• 20^th May – Father and daughter singing duo, ADRIAN and EMMA-JEAN GALLIARD.
  They recently rose to fame after videos of them singing The Prayer & Time to Say Goodbye went viral. They continue to entertain fans across the country & the world with live and virtual concerts comprising of well-known classical and pop music covers.
• 27^th May – THE ZIZA MUFTIC TRIO with ZIZA MUFTIC on vocals and piano, GRAEME SACKS on guitar and CONCORD NKABINDE on the electric bass. The audience can expect a programme of original works as well as creative covers of familiar standards and folk melodies.
• 3^rd June – Marimba and piano recital with MAGDALENA DE VRIES and JANNIE LE ROUX. 
• 10^th June – IT TAKES TWO, a clarinet and piano duo, MORNE VAN HEERDEN and SONJA VAN ZYL They will be playing works by Gershwin, Piazzola Tangos, Hungarian Dances by Kovak and Jewish Dances.
• 17^th June – Solo Marimba recital with international performer, MAGDALENA DE VRIES
• 24^th June – SONJA VAN ZYL (piano) and DR JEAN DU PLESSIS (vocal) will perform works by Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Mahler and Strauss Lieder
• 1^st July – THE WITS TRIO, featuring the renowned ZANTA HOFMEYR (violin),
  SUSAN MOUTON (cello) and MALCOLM NAY (piano)
• 8^th July - SHADES OF BROADWAY with special guest performer, GREG PETTIGREW - a one-man tribute to the Broadway greats with songs from musicals such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Joseph and Cabaret
• 15^th July – ABBA TRIBUTE starring COLE VAN DAIS and her ensemble
• 22^nd July – CARNIVAL OF KEYS - An exhilarating concert of piano duets and songs featuring pianists LAURO PAUNA and EUGENE JOUBERT with a repertoire for 4 hands, with baritone, CHRIS VALE
  and soprano, MARILIZE HATTINGH
• 29^th July – Piano recital with LIZELLE LE ROUX

All concerts take place on Friday afternoon at 13:00. Tickets are available an hour before at the theatre box office. Seats are unreserved so we encourage you to arrive early. Please bring your vaccination documents and be reminded to wear your masks at all times.

Tickets are R100 and R60 for members.

Should you are interested in becoming a Theatre Member please email Daphne Kuhn on theatreonthesquare@gmail.com
For any further info contact Daphne Kuhn directly on 083 3774969 or on theatreonthesquare@gmail.com

FROM KOE’SIESTES TO KNEIDLACH… WITH KIDS

3rd – 21st May

Starring Chantal Stanfield

Following the success of its debut production at Theatre on the Square, Chantal Stanfield once again teams up with director Megan Choritz to bring the sequel to the hugely successful and uniquely South African comedy, From Koe’siestes to Kneidlach…. with Kids. This hilarious kosher comedy follows the bizarre, funny and true story of what happens when a girl from the Cape Flats falls in love with a Jew-ish boy from Joburg’s East Rand. The new show picks up a few years after the mixed-race-mixed-everything- happy couple get married and ride off into the shabbat sunset. Now there’s a “beige” baby on the way with a myriad of cultural, religious and familial issues to navigate. Join us for this perfect entertainment as Stanfield reminisces, in her inimitable way, on love, life and cultural biases.

THE NEW ABNORMAL and COUNTRY DUTY

Two brilliant new works by internationally acknowledged and award-winning SA playwright, Mike van Graan, will be presented as a double bill, featuring actors, Khutjo Green and Nhlanhla Shabangu. Mike van Graan’s satirical works have thrilled audiences at Theatre on the Square over the years such as his Pay Back the Curry, State Fracture, Land Acts and the contemporary drama, Green Man Flashing.

Nhlanhla Shabangu will feature in The New Abnormal, using the Covid 19 pandemic as a springboard for social commentary in a stand-up format.

Well known actor and director, Khutjo Green will play the role of Boitumelo Mgenge in Country Duty. This features the trials and tribulations of a whistleblower character, which, with the Zondo Commission into State Capture, is a very topical theme right now!

A double act to delight and provoke!

AFRICA SOUL is a first for South Africa. Their music is pure soul and blues, taking songs from the 1950’s/1960’s era of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and other music icons and giving those ‘old’ classics a ‘young’ rebirth. Most importantly and uniquely, re-working those well-known classics with African harmonies and lyrics, and in such a way, bringing songs from a bygone era to today’s audience of both an older and younger generation, to either reminisce about, or to hear for the first time. Songs from the American South, to South Africa.

AFRICA SOUL comprises current Soweto Gospel Choir members but is a separate entity with a different sound and feel. Musical direction/production falls under the multi-talented Adam Howard and was founded by Beverly Bryer and Adam Howard in January 2020.

A new group for a new decade!

NALITHEMBA presents "SIKELELA: a musical opera for Enoch Sontonga", a new musical that honours Enoch Mankayi Sontonga, an obscure South African composer best known for writing the song “Nkosi Sikelela iAfrika” (“god bless Africa”). Although the citizens of South Africa proudly sing the song, the majority is unaware of the story behind its inclusion in the national anthem. We have a duty to offer better recognition to the author of a deep prayer that exists within an iconic hymn written to bless the teary soul of the African heart - so effectively it was that neighbouring nations began sang it.

The show fuses sign language with sound to create heightened visuals and encourage inclusivity.