Since mid-2016 (terms 3 & 4) up until the end of term 1 – 2017, Jungle Theatre Company has been facilitating performing arts clubs in different areas i.e. Khayelitsha and Kalksteenfontein, with grade 4 – 6 learners from Impendulo, Kalksteenfontein, Montana and Ikwezi primary schools. The weekly sessions focused on characters from African mythology for […]
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intra mural drama workshops
intra mural drama workshops Jungle Theatre Company facilitated curriculum-based drama for all grades at Grove Primary during 2005. In 2008 Jungle Theatre Company established an intramural programme Kiss Waste Goodbye linking three local schools, Muizenberg Junior, Zerilda Park Primary and Levana Primary. Working with Grade 4s, Jungle Theatre Company built large parade puppets from waste […]
extra mural drama workshops
extra mural drama workshops Jungle Theatre Company has provided a rolling extra mural programme for schools including: Rondebosch Boys Preparatory, Cannons Creek Primary, Wynberg Boys Primary, Yeshua Christian Primary, Grove Primary, Muizenberg Junior and Rosebank Junior.In addition Jungle Theatre Company raises funds to provide programmes in underprivileged schools for example: Eluxolweni and Ikhusi Primary schools […]
schools intercultural workshops
schools intercultural workshops For the Harlequin Foundation’s eMzantsi carnival and community building project, Jungle Theatre Company has helped design, develop and implement five primary school twinning programmes. Children from two very different schools go through a carnival arts process together, learning in each others’ communities and building friendships across traditional cultural divides. Ntombifuthi Mkhasibe currently […]
educator’s workshops
educators’ workshops Jungle Theatre Company develops workshops for educators so they can use theatre techniques and skills across the range of learning areas in the curriculum. Teachers participate in the workshops and experience the creative process that learners go through. The games and exercises can be used to provide creative, participatory experiential learning.
theatre-maker training
Laduma! young theatre-maker training and employment programme In 2007 Jungle Theatre Company ran a year-long pilot programme with six trainees, who were cast in productions in 2008 as freelance artists. Two of the 2007 graduates still are part of the current artistic team. In 2010 Jungle Theatre Company trained 8 young performers on a two-year […]
skills transfer workshops
skills transfer workshops for youth leaders and volunteers Jungle Theatre Company develops and tailors theatre skills programmes for partner organisations and people who work with children and young people. In 2007 Jungle Theatre Company created a pilot programme for Edmund Rice Camps and in 2011 it expanded this process implementing drama skills training with Greater […]
!Kai – A Little Death
!Kai – A Little Death is a non-linear story set in the real and dream landscape of the desert and the dying mind. Using the interplay of a live actor with shadow puppetry, projections and masks, the play creates dynamic juxtapositions between the powerful depiction of trance dance, Khoisan mythology and the surreal weightlessness of […]
Moya The Air We Breathe
Moya is a young rising soccer star, his goal scoring record has made him a hero in his township. One day, he has an asthma attack during training and ends up in hospital, where he has a nightmare about a Death Monster who feeds on smoke and pollution. Unable to play soccer, Moya is dropped […]
Rubbish Wrap
Rubbish Wrap uses waste as a resource to free the imagination: a talking tree’s leaves make homes for worms; a bottle top shark sings “Free the Sea!!” and magical musical recycling machine has some surprises in store. Rubbish Wrap is a play about the cycle of waste and the transfer of energy in nature’s own […]
