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19/09/2023

We're deeply saddened to learn about the passing of Sizakele Beauty "Sis B" Nkabinde.

Sis B worked at The Tin Town Theatre NPC from its inception in 2019, until its closure in 2022.

We remember Mam'Nkabinde as someone who was warm, loving, and compassionate for theatre and artists. Beauty worked for various organizations within the arts sector including Gauteng Opera, The Tin Town Theatre, and Arts & Culture Trust.

Mrs. Nkabinde was our cleaning supervisor at TTT, but she always made time to support the independent theatre works we put up in the space. This was always her response whenever she was invited to a show in the theatre; "I don't accept complimentary tickets; what you guys do (theatre) is not cheap".

We are gutted by this loss and wish to extend our sincere condolences to her family and friends. May her beautiful soul rest in peace.

Funeral Arrangements:

- Saturday the 23rd of September 2023
- 7: 30 am
- 847 C, MONGAGANA STR, ZONE1 MEADOWLANDS, SOWETO.

25/11/2022

27/08/2022

"You cannot take this satirical piece on if you are not a true shapeshifter because these women are a band of Chameleons. Something about Text Me When You Arrive is undeniably old school poor theatre from Joburg. It's minimalistic but not simple, it offers a plethora of scenarios that immerse you in the times, it is physically demanding and you will not want for striking characters and characterisation. This style is the legacy of pieces such as Waiting for Godot and Woza. The use of repetition, song, humor, the glaring futility of the efforts these women make, the dwindling hope these women have, the necessity of the play's existence and the undeniably important subject matter. Something urgent and meaningful has been made here. I believe we are witnessing a moment in South African Theatre." Sisekho Velelo

Text Me When You Arrive runs at The Tin Town Theatre until Sunday the 28th of August.

Book your ticket here: https://www.webtickets.co.za/event.aspx?itemid=1517719223

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22/08/2022

Meet The Creators and Cast of "Text Me When You Arrive"

Sibahle Mangena born and raised in Johannesburg. She is an actor, writer, and theatre maker with an interest in body movement and text. She graduated from the Market Theatre Laboratory in Practical performance and theatre making in 2017.
Her focus has always been on experimentation with the grotesque, play, emotion, physicality, and vocal preparation as principles of embodied performance. Her main work is creating new work through devising, workshopping, and improvisation.

Her repertoire of work includes several works such as Naledi nominated Text me when you arrive Currently Gold and works like Umsebenzi ka Bra Shakes (The work of Shakespeare), Umthandazo, Keys to a Great Poetic Game, Houseboy, Mandla Mbothwe’s HOW |Showing the Making created as part of different programs at The Centre for the Less Good Idea. Sibahle was part of the Kwasha Theatre Company of The Market Theatre in 2019.

Remember to book your tickets here: https://www.webtickets.co.za/event.aspx?itemid=1517719223

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19/08/2022

Meet The Creators and Cast of "Text Me When You Arrive"

Aalliyah Zama Matintela (23) is an Actress, Theatre Maker, Director and playwright from Johannesburg. She is a graduate from the Market Theatre Laboratory, where she got a chance to learn different techniques and grow her skills in the craft. She directed and performed in various Community Theatre festivals, and won stunning awards for her work.

Highlights of her career include performing in the Africa Day Spectacle in 2017, directed by Omphile Molusi as well as being cast in a supporting role in '21 Wandah' directed by Mwenya Kabwe in 2017. She also performed in 'The Oresteia Revisited' which was adapted and directed by Dorothy Ann Gould, whom she has also been taught by. In 2018 she was cast in a supporting role in the play 'Platitudes’ directed by Nondumiso Msimanga. She co-directed the play “Marose”, which won Best Student Production in National Arts Festival 2018. She also directed “Currently (G)Old!”, which won a Standard Back Ovation at the National Arts Festival and which was nominated for 3 Naledi Awards in 2019.

In 2021 she performed in Kgaube written and directed by Thabang Gabogope and "Text Me When You Arrive" which she co'created, directed by Sinenhlanhla Mgeyi and Mentored by MoMo Matsunyane. She’s also done work on television, stirring in Adverts such as Consol and Chicken’Lickin.

Remember to book your tickets here: https://www.webtickets.co.za/event.aspx?itemid=1517719223

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18/08/2022

Meet The Director of "Text Me When You Arrive"

Sinenhlanhla Mgeyi (29) is a theatre maker, director, dancer, choreographer and an actor who graduated
from the Market Theatre Laboratory in 2017.
He began his performance training under the guidance of Howard ‘Brother’ Dladla at the Zase Laduma Art Centre in Mpumalanga. Following working at community art centres around the country, he joined the Market Theatre Laboratory.
Highlights of his performing career include roles in “Lampedusa Beach” (dir Raissa Bringi, Italy), “Chilahaebulae” (dir. Kgafela oa Magogodi) and the award winning touring production “Hani : The Legacy” (dir. Leila Henriques). He also performed in “Rhinoceros” (dir. theatre Duo.)
As a director, he has been part of several award winning productions, including “Peeling shadows”, which he co-directed with “Joël Leonard” that won best Production for the young audience at The Naledi awards, the National Arts Festival Student festival award winner “Pop I Cherri”, co-directed by Tumeka Matintela as well as “Currently (G)Old” which he co-directed with Aalliyah Matintela that won Best ensemble and Bronze ovation award in Makhanda National Art Festival.
Following his graduation from the Market Lab, he toured to the United Kingdom where he took part in a collaborative co-production “Encountering the Other” under the guidance of Clara Vaughan and Jaques de Silva. He then joined the Kwasha! Theatre Company, where he has been part of major productions such as “Error SA Comedy” (dir. Christopher D. Betts) and “The Little Prince” (dir. Mwenya Kabwe and Clara Vaughan).
His currently a trainer at the market theatre laboratory.
PRODUCTIONS:
- “Lampedusa Beach” (dir. Raissa Bringi)
- “Chilahaebolae”
(dir. Kgafela oa Magogodi)
- “Hani: The Legacy” (dir. Leila Henriques)
- “Encountering the Other”
- “Error SA Comedy”
(dir. Christopher D. Betts)
- “The Little Prince”
(dir. Clara Vaughan and Mwenya Kabwe)
- “CurrentlyG)Old)
(dir. Sinenhlanhla Mgeyi and Aalliyah Matintela)
- “Rhinoceros”
(dir. Theatre Duo)

17/08/2022

The Tin Town Theatre NPC and Asah Music have collaborated to bring you, 'Lioness Finesse Unplugged' a live music performance with a female-only line-up.

'Lioness Finesse Unplugged' will feature 11 outstanding artists and present a variety of genres such as Afro-soul, Jazz, and Neo-soul, to name a few.

Expect an afternoon of free-flowing energy and soulful music. Tickets available

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17/08/2022

Meet The Incredible cast and creators of "Text Me When you Arrive".

Thuli Nduvane (26) is an Actress, Theatre-Maker and aspiring Director. Although she’s always loved theatre, she only began to pursue a career in the performing arts at the Market Theatre Laboratory after completing her degree in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Pretoria.

After graduating from The Lab in 2018, she joined the resident youth theatre company; Kwasha! Under the Market Theatre and Windybrow Arts Centre. Kwasha! walked away with two Awards from Standard Bank: a Bronze Ovation, as well as a Best Ensemble Ovation for their production Currently (G)old (dir. Aalliyah Matintela & Sinenhlanhla Mgeyi). Later that year, the company, directed by the TheatreDuo, staged Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros in collaboration with the French Institute (IFAS).

She co-devised a new text called Text Me When You Arrive in 2018 which had two consecutive runs at POPArt Theatre in 2020 & another at the Market Laboratory in August 2021.

She’s currently a podcaster & works as a talent agent at Canvas Casting Artist Management based in Johannesburg.

Remember to Book your tickets here: https://www.webtickets.co.za/event.aspx?itemid=1517719223

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13/08/2022

The Tin Town Theatre brings you the Naledi Nominated "Text Me When You Arrive." A fitting way to close off this Women's Month. This peice is light hearted in its approach to difficult topics.

Directed by Sinenhlanhla Mgeyi and carefully crafted by Aaliyah Matintela, Sibahle Mangena and Thuli Nduvane under the mentorship of MoMo Matsunyane is a peice that is engaging and necessary, a peice that is of the times without being pretentious.

Even the title speaks to the measures that women take to secure their safety on the daily. The title and the play echo their fears and shines the light on how women are teathered to a sisterhood that tries to keeps us alive in a world that has declared war on us. Alot of women are numb with GBV fatigue this month. Well, here is a peice that dares to communicate what you are too tired to tweet about today, too tired to March about today and too tired to articulate today. Let Text Me When You Arrive take the baton and speak in silence.

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Bookings: https://www.webtickets.co.za/event.aspx?itemid=1517719223

23/07/2022

STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

****KUYENYUKA VENUE CHANGE****

New Venue: National School Of The Arts.
NB* Your online tickets will still be valid at NSA.

Dear Tin Town Theatre Patrons

We regret to inform you that tonight's run of Kuyenyuka will be staged at the National School of the Arts. This change is due to an unplanned power outage that began just before Midnight on the 21st of July. Power was only restored around 21h00 on the 22nd of July after Joburg City Power started promising repairs at 09h00 on the 22nd.

The irony of finding ourselves unable to assist independent artists as a result of another government failure when we exist as a result of their failures is not lost on us. The show did go on last night and will go on tonight but unfortunately, not on our stages. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. We wish Vuyelwa Phota and the Kuyenyuka team all the best with their run this evening.

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18/07/2022

Motion Art Productions | The Tin Town Theatre NPC and Vuyelwa Phota

Present : KUYENYUKA

Choreographed by .vrrr

This coming weekend 22nd & 23rd July 2022 19:00

Tickets available at webtickets.

Venue: The Tin Town Theatre NPC

Kuyenyuka is a Xhosa word that means “There is an incline”. This word is the banner that sits over Vuyelwa Phota’s dance piece which positions life as the incline and explores our journey and the various loads we carry as we scale up the mountain that is life. It zooms in on what happens to us as these loads get heavier. This piece poses existential questions about why we climb, why we choose to burden ourselves along the way and the value of those burdens once we reach the mountain top. Kuyenyuka also explores how we view those who climb beside us and our tendency to other ourselves as we respectively fight for individuality while aiming to remind us through the mum medium of movement that the ways in which we suffer under these loads essentially make us more alike than we realise.

18/07/2022

The Tin Town Theatre NPC and Vuyelwa Phota present; KUYENYUKA

Kuyenyuka is a Xhosa word that means “There is an incline”. This word is the banner that sits over Vuyelwa Phota’s dance piece which positions life as the incline and explores our journey and the various loads we carry as we scale up the mountain that is life. It zooms in on what happens to us as these loads get heavier. This piece poses existential questions about why we climb, why we choose to burden ourselves along the way, and the value of those burdens once we reach the mountain top. Kuyenyuka also explores how we view those who climb beside us and our tendency to other ourselves as we respectively fight for individuality while aiming to remind us through the mum medium of movement that the ways in which we suffer under these loads essentially make us more alike than we realize.

BOOK HERE: https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/Event.aspx?itemid=1517051761

17/05/2022

Last night was beautiful, a night of celebration.

The Tin Town Theatre NPC celebrates with all the nominees and winners.

We are super proud of Nkoane, The star that has just put us on the map!

Thank you so ever much for your light, this celebration is well deserved.

To the entire team of The Tin Town Theatre.

The Writer and Director of The Princesses of askies shem street Khutjo Green. The participants of The Creative Hub at Tin Town Theatre, our beloved dramaturge Katlego Chale

Thank you for this Production.

To the Naledi Theatre Awards : 4 Nominations and a win is a great milestone for us.

Thank you TTT Tebogo Desando, Sisekho Velelo , Samuel Ratona, Primrose Damane, Straydom, Ndaba, Nkabinde, Mthuli

You guys make this Theatre what it is...to many more year!!!!

Once again, to our winner tshireletso nkoane Thank you! Thank you!

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12/04/2022

Tonight the Tin Town Theatre attended the Naledi Award Nominations reveal and we are proud to announce that we recieved four nominations for a play that is very close to our hearts.

Our journey with this play, this very special playwright and this cast has been a long one purely driven by passion and a love for theatre. We started with a modest little reading in 2019. The most uncertain times followed and today Khutjo Green's The Princesses Of Askies Shem Street gets it's moment in the sun with nominations in the following categories:

Best Director of a Play- Khutjo Green
Best Supporting Actor in a Play -Tshireletso Nkoane
Best New Script- The Princesses of Askies Shem Street
Best Production of a Play- The Princesses of Askies Shem Street produced by The Tin Town Theatre NPC.

The Tin Town Theatre is proud to have produced this important work in these incredibly trying times. This is a monumental moment for us specifically because we achieved it with inimitable Khutjo Green, a black female playwright with a lot to say.

We are thankful to the Naledi Theatre Awards for this nod. Finally, there are not enough words to express our boundless gratitude to the fearless founder, the one and only Marcus Tebogo Desando for giving us the opportunity to see these visions through, our young vibrant and cool Resident Creative Director Sisekho Velelo and not ever forgetting our insightful visionary the Artistic Director Tshepo Samuel Ratona.

This is the beginning, there will be many more.

16/03/2022

Tickets are running out! Don't leave it for later. Purchase your tickets here: https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/Event.aspx?itemid=1512094654

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See you then.

27th March 2022 at The Tin Town Theatre