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Award-winning play launches new theatre
After 23 years of restless wandering and groundbreaking work, innovative theatre company Magnet Theatre is ready to open its new home to audiences.
Remarkable Robben Island stories in 53 Degrees
ACCLAIMED physical performer, theatre educator, partner in Magnet Theatre, (and mother of two) Jennie Reznek, makes a welcome return to the stage in a multi-media physical theatre performance, 53 Degrees, between March 17 and April 5, 2003.
STONE PLAY AT MAGNET THEATRE
This is a fabulous opportunity for young learners to see a fun play. Stone Play takes audiences back to the beginnings of humankind, back to a long-forgotten world of light, shadow, song and storytelling.
REVIEW: THE VISIT
What Magnet Theatre has done with Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit is dynamic, fascinating, disturbing – a treatment that showcases both the gravitas of the script and the great ingenuity of the team.
REVIEW OF G7: OKWE BOKHWE AT HIDDINGH
Physical theatre at its most dynamic rewards the audience of G7: Okwe Bokhwe with ever-changing visual stimulus throughout this work’s duration.
REVIEW: BRECHT’S THE GOOD SOUL OF SZECHUAN IN 2022 – JOY TRANSCENDING BEYOND FEAR
Being good in a world where bad people trounce us? Is that possible? Bertolt Brecht is saying: Yes. It makes us human to be “good”, to keep going, even when it seems hopeless.
Review: Evocative EVERY YEAR, EVERY DAY, I AM WALKING at Baxter Theatre Centre Cannot Be Missed
Magnet Theatre's award-winning EVERY YEAR, EVERY DAY, I AM WALKING returns over a decade later after its initial creation in 2006.
REVIEW: EVERY YEAR, EVERY DAY, I AM WALKING
This reprise of one of Magnet Theatre’s crowning jewels is a beautifully evocative piece of physical theatre.
BWW Reviews: TREE / BOOM / UMTHI an Enchanting Experience for the Littlies
Theatre is a special kind of magic for the very young. At that age, an effective piece of theatre offers an interactive engagement that other forms of entertainment rarely achieve, and the negotiation of identity and worldview that follows can be incredibly affirmative for young audiences
Ambitious Project Harnesses Many Talents
Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda.
Review: Magnificent I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE a Must-See at the Magnet Theatre
The longer that I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE lives in my consciousness, the more the brilliant universality of this magnificent piece of physical theatre reveals itself.
REVIEW: Antigone (not quite/ quiet)
Antigone (not quite/ quiet), subtitled Ninganiki Okungcwele Ezinjeni (Give not to dogs, sacred things) can be read as an academic exercise.