In addition to new and established Wits Drama directors, the season features guest directors such as Phyllis Klotz from Sibikwa and Gys de Villiers. The idea behind this season of new works is to enable Wits students to take the seeds of formal training and to grow them into works of creativity and life experience.

Programme details for the season are as follows:

AQUA MINE- “the soul is on earth for its own delights”

This is an adventure where one woman’s actions can bring back water to man. She will be taken on a journey through time and space, her guide; an ancestral spirit who seems to the world, innocent and childlike.
Directed by Gys de Villiers
22 March – 2 April at 20:00
Wits Downstairs Theatre
Running Time: 75 minutes

SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
A comedy told through music and voice which explores contemporary South African youth culture.
Directed by Sarah Woodward
22 March – 2 April at 19:30
The Nunnery
Running Time: 80 minutes

SATYRICON
Directed by Bailey Snyman
23 March – 2 April at 20:30
Wits Amphitheatre
Running Time: 60 minutes

MOUTH
In a collaborative work of image installation and performance art the notion of silence is tentatively explored.
Directed by Tarryn Lee
14 – 21 April at 20:15
Wits Amphitheatre
Running Time: +- 60 minutes

PLANET B
(Fresco Theatre and Well Worn Theatre)

Sometimes, in war, famine and radical times of change, there is someone still standing. And sometimes, they are not alone. Amongst the dunes of post-2050 earth a mirage of humanity glimmers in the heat. This award-winning collaboration of artists brings you an exquisitely visual new play of epic proportions.
Directed by Helen Iskander
03 – 14 May at 20:00
The Nunnery
Running Time: 60 minutes

SEXCETERA
(NYU/SIBIKWA Collaboration)
The production incorporates a company of actors from Wits School of Arts / Dramatic Arts, the Tisch School of Arts (NYU) and the Sibikwa Arts Centre. The director says that the production is, “a site-specific journey through sexuality.”
Directed by Phyllis Klotz
10 – 21 May at 20:15
Wits School of Arts’ Atrium
Running Time: 60 minutes

LATE LUNCH
Six South African women meet. One of them is an ambitious journalist on an upward trajectory. The others are dead. But the lives they lived were extraordinary. In telling their stories - funny and moving and bizarre stories - these iconic historical figures tell the story of South Africa and its relationship with its women, Directed by Clara Vaughan
11 – 14 May at 19:00
Wits Amphitheatre
17- 21 May: Theatre in Education (TIE) Tour Running Time: 60 minutes

Free parking is available in Senate House; the entrance is on Jorissen Street, Braamfontein.

BOOKING: www.ticket.co.za

Full price = R66; discount price = R38,50 (students, pensioners and Wits staff).

Tickets are available at the door: full price = R70; discount price = R45 (students, pensioners and Wits staff).