NEWS
FESTIVAL AT HILTON COLLEGE
This year's Natal Witness Hilton Drama Festival will run from September 13 to 15. As well as 27
different productions there will be an extensive craft market, art exhibition and displays.
MAIN FESTIVAL
On the main festival, tickets range from R25 to R40 and productions include Page by
Page, Judy Page's musical flip through her life story and Femme! Fatale? where Ian von
Memerty and Michelle Maxwell provide a humorous insight into how men see women.
Rex Garner directs Tim Plewman in the new comedy, Lomu'd by the Boks, about
how an All Black fan copes with the loss of the World Cup! Another comedy sees Gaby Lomberg, David Butler,
Nicky Rebelo and Jennifer Woodburne in What Annette said in her Sleep last Night.
DRAMA
Among the top drama productions is 1949, written and directed by Ronnie
Govender. This amusing insight into the Cato Manor community is a good vehicle for Charles Pillai's fine dramatic
talent.
Winner of two FNB Vita awards, White Men With Weapons is an excellent one-man
play directed by Garth Anderson,
written and performed by Greig Coetzee, set in the SADF in 1990. (Age: 16+)
Directed by Mervyn McMurtry, Our Country's Good, marks the South African
premiŠre of the multi-award winning play set in a penal colony.
Free Flight Dance
presents a programme by choreographers Adele Blank and
Christopher Kindo.
FRINGE FESTIVAL
The Fringe offers a wide variety of productions. Tickets from R5 to R24.
Solomon's Pride
sees Greig Coetzee directing Bheki Mkhwane in this poignant look
at the trials and tribu-lations of a gumboot dancer.
Aldo Brincat and Ashley Dowds present a story of friendship, aspirations, dreams, revenge and
intolerance in Spoonful of Sugar.
Some top names in comedy are Joanna Weinberg in her Bum in the Butter about
a South African who has never gone hungry and Mark Banks's latest and most outrageous, Stark Raving
Mark!
Don't miss James Borthwick in Paul Slabolepsky's delightful tale of bushveld braais and
platteland cricket, Tickle to Fine Leg and Gilda Blacher discusses everything from battle of the sexes to
Prozac in Womb with a View! (Age 16+)
MUSICAL
Come Together
is a musical tribute to the Beatles that played the Supper Stage in
Durban North and Naughty Noel is an enjoyable show about Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence
directed by Garth Anderson. Still with Coward, Cowardy Caldwell is a tongue-in-cheek look at
Coward classics by Rob Caldwell.
CHORAL MUSIC
If you prefer choral music, there's Gabriel FaurŠ's FaurŠ's Requiem perfor-med
by St Mary's/Hilton College choirs.
Entry is free for Festival Mass by Hilton College and St Anne's College choirs.
Other choirs performing are the University of Cape Town Choir, the combined Hilton/St Anne's
Chamber Choir and the St Mary's Chamber Choir.
For those who prefer rock music, top band Squeal will give several concerts.
YOUNGSTERS
For youngsters, there's the whacky Boy Called Rubbish with Ellis Pearson and Bheki
Mkhwane's performing in their unique and magical style.
In The Grossest Show on Earth Aldo Brincat presents green worms, a floating boot
and an invitation to kiss the flying false teeth! Rainbow is a beautifully-presented modern fantasy
of mime and drama from the Playhouse Puppet Company about the birth of the earth.
The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet
deals with dynamic interactions in major
relationships taken from Shakespeare.
WEEKEND
For anyone wishing to make a weekend of the festival, bed and breakfast accommodation can be
booked through Maggie Vogt on (0332) 30-3343.
Theatre bookings through Computicket and all enquiries to (0331) 43-0126.
The full programme is advertised on the back cover of this issue.