Making War Horse is the story of how Michael Morpurgo’s children’s novel became one of the most popular and acclaimed productions in the National Theatre’s history. From its early development in the NT Studio, see how Handspring Puppet Company created the groundbreaking techniques that brought a lifelike horse to the stage. Behind the scenes [...]

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Author: David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky, English, Art General, DVD, 70 minutes, ISBN: 5065001662003, LOC: Jhb,
Price: (ZA)R 250

Top-shelf magazine meets fine art. High-heeled, fetishistic women parade through a world of Matissean colour. Allen Jones’s use of these apparent stereotypes has made him a controversial figure in the art world. Tackling issues of gender and power raised by his work, and including images of Jones’s source material and his own photography, this is [...]

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Author: Andrew Lambirth, English, Monograph, Softcover, Jacket, 290x245mm, full colour, 160pp, ISBN: 9781903973219,
Price: (ZA)R 550

In May, 1909 Sergei Diaghilev astonished the world of dance with his first ballet presentations in Paris which demonstrated an unprecedented combination of vitality and grace, originality and technical sophistication. As a primary axis of Diaghilevs activities during the life of the company known as the Ballets Russes, Monte Carlo is celebrating this centenary with [...]

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Author: John E. Bowlt, English, Art General, Harcover, 285x245mm, black and white,Colour, 320pp, ISBN: 9788857200903,
Price: (ZA)R 720.00

Movie theater architecture is an architecture of night. Evening screenings take place in buildings that seek out the attention of passersby using their form and light. The interiors of this less-than-a-century-old building type are also very manifold. The range of design is especially evident in the execution of foyers, which span everything from the strict, [...]

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Author: Chris van Uffelen, English, Multimedia, Harcover, 300x235mm, Colour, black and white, 253pp, ISBN: 9783037680278,
Price: (ZA)R 810.00

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Have You Seen Zandile? is a wonderful South African resource, still as fresh and absorbing as when it was first written.  Perfectly scripted, and with Gcina Mhlophe’s sure instinct for stagecraft, it recounts the very personal story of Zandile, who is snatched away from her grandmother’s loving care and taken to live with her matriarchal [...]

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Author: Gcina Mhlophe, English, NonArt, Softcover, 80pp, 220 x 136mm, ISBN: 978 1 86914 002 1,
Price: (ZA)R 65.00

Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of three plays in this collection: The Mother of All Eating, a one-hander, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is  a grinding satire on material in which the protogonist gets his come-uppance.

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Author: Zakes Mda, English, NonArt, Softcover, 162pp, 220 x 150mm, ISBN: 186814 3775,
Price: (ZA)R 140.00

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In an old house in a small country town three women gather in the pressence of a stinkwood table and their powerful memories of the man they have just buried. In Sorrows and Rejoicings, Athol Fugard turns ones more to his beloved Karoo and to the themes of exile and the importance of place that [...]

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Author: Athol Fugard, English, Softcover, 80pp, 20 x 13cm, ISBN: 1868143856,
Price: (ZA)R 100.00

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‘Why bother to rob a bank, when you can own a bank?’ asked Bertold Brecht. The question is reiterated in the very Brechtian Love, Crime and Johannesburg, the story of Jimmy ‘Long Legs’ Mangane and the trouble he gets into in the new South Africa. Jimmy, a people’s poet involved in the struggle, is accused [...]

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Unknown Author, English, Softcover,, ISBN: 1868143546

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Happy Natives is very contemporary, looking at the way in which South Africans struggle to define their present identity.  The play is extremely gripping, very funny and yet keeps surprising the audience with its insight into the complexities of cross-cultural relationships, ten years on from the start of the rainbow nation.   The play shows how [...]

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Author: Greig Coetzee, English, NonArt, Softcover, 64pp, 210 x 148mm, ISBN: 978 1 86914 033 5,
Price: (ZA)R 65.00

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Mameena, based on Haggard’s novel Child of Storm, is set in Zululand during the 1850s and deals with the struggle for the succession to the Zulu throne. Mameena was staged in 1914 by actor-manager Oscar Asche, who employed the Zulu expert James Stuart as technical adviser on the production.

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Author: Stephen Coan, Alfred Tella, English, NonArt, Hardcover, 432pp, 230 x 150mm, ISBN: 978 1 86914 099 1,
Price: (ZA)R 365.00