In Partnership with the Goethe- Institut South Africa, Magnet Theatre presents the Family Festival 2018.

Magnet Theatre, one of South Africa’s longest standing physical theatre companies, the Goethe-Institut and Helios Theater present the Family Festival 2018: A 2 day theatre festival for children between the ages of 2-7 years and their families. The programme presents 6 new enchanting shows performed by the Magnet Theatre’s final year Full Time Training and Job Creation Programme trainees as well as six guest artists from Uganda, Lesotho, Botswana, and Mozambique. The casts of performers were trained specifically to engage and communicate with young audiences in a six-week long incubation process with Jennie Reznek and guest children’s theatre specialists Barbara Kölling and Anna-Sofia Zimniak from the Helios Theatre Company in Germany. The project aims to skill a whole new cohort of young actors in the creation of work for pre school children.

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With innovative designs by Asiphe Lili and Puleng Stewart, each production explores a different material, captivating and fascinating the audiences with Magnet Theatre’s particular brand of play and physical theatre. Using mostly the language of the body, song and strong images these 6 productions offer totally unique South African and African theatrical experiences. They are evocative and poetic, designed to engage the imagination of young and old.

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All productions created by the company with input from Jennie Reznek (Magnet Theatre), Barbara Kölling and Anna-Sophia Zimniak (Theater Helios), Jayne Batzofin and Andi Colombo.
Stage Management: Andi Colombo
Lighting Design: Themba Stewart and Andi Colombo
Production Manager: Themba Stewart

Project Manager: Jaqueline Dommisse