Family fare at Fest
The ASSITEJ Family Fare returns to the National Arts Festival for the fifth consecutive year, to bring to the festival unique, quality theatre for youth and young audiences.
Since its inception, ASSITEJ Family Fare has provided an exceptional platform dedicated entirely to the needs of families experiencing the festival together. The venues provide theatre which caters to the whole family, while Oatlands Prep, where the ASSITEJ Family Fare Platform has its base, specifically provides interactive, creative and stimulating Family Fare activities run by artists and ASSITEJ staff.
67 Blankets for Mandela will return to the ASSITEJ Family Fare Outlands Prep venue to ensure that knitwits attending the festival can carry on with the goodwill and knit for Madiba. ASSITEJ has built relationships within the Grahamstown family community, with local families returning each year.
Denese Palm, a local mom and entrepreneur, has for the last four years provided wholesome and nutritious catering at the Oatlands venue.
The ASSITEJ Family Fare Platform continues to gain recognition within the framework of the NAF.
Of the handful of prestigious Silver Ovation Awards issued at National Arts Festival since 2012, the ASSITEJ Family Fare programme has already been awarded two: the first for Jori Snell’s critically acclaimed Kitchen Fables in a Cookie Jar in 2012 and the second to international ASSITEJ theatre company, Batida from Denmark, whose production A Man Called Rolex heralded in a new category of award for Family Fare in 2014. Many other productions on the platform have been awarded Ovation awards in recogni- tion of their quality including, Incredible Journey, which will be returning to the Family fare platform again this year, and Making Mandela.
The ASSITEJ Family Fare Platform has now extended across the festival, with performances at Oatlands Prep, Memory Hall, Transnet Great Hall and Drostdy Lawn. This year presents a rich diversity of 20 productions – entertaining, thought provoking and engaging, for the family.
The 2016 Family Fare programme also features a wealth of new productions specially created for young audiences and we are delighted that among these are an exciting French-South African collaboration with Theatre Thump! and new work especially created for the under-6s. There will also be some surprise performances at the Oatlands Family Fare Platform, and expect to find music, dance and street theatre when you visit.
This ASSITEJ SA Family Fare is excited to see 2014 favourite Narrative Dreams return to the Fringe.
Also returning to ASSITEJ SA Family Fare is 2015 Standard Bank Ovation recipient Incredible Journey, and crowd favourites 2-4-1 Even More Fun and Florence and Watson and the Sugarbush Mouse.
Ticket prices range from as little as R50-R61. Some productions will have a half price special during their run. Visit https://www.nationalartsfestival.co.za/events/ for more information and prices.
For more information and block bookings contact: 046 603 1186/1163 or email boxoffice@nationalartsfestival. co.za enquiries may also be directed to