Commission Continua by Noma Yini (South Africa)

Dates and Times:

17 January 2025, Friday, 8pm

18 January 2025, Saturday, 8pm

...a powerful and affecting production. Miyambo succeeds in delivering a complex concept with care.

— Nkgopoleng Moloi, The Critter

Bright Maluleke—played by Tony Bonani Miyambo (Kafka’s Ape)—is an employee who copies and archives official documents from the commissions. He does his best just to stick to his brief and ignore the content of the files—but this proves difficult when faced with all these pages giving an account of the most critical and catastrophic moments in South Africa’s history. In the frugal setting of a photocopier, a microphone, and a loop station, he begins to give vent to his annoyance with South African society’s struggle for real change and reconciliation.

a devastating one-hander that emphasises how the culpability for historical and recent crimes perpetrated against the South African people has become buried under mountains of paperwork.

— Chris Thurman, Business Live

Accessibility features: Open captions in English for all shows.

There will be a dialogue with the artists after each performance, with speech to text interpretation available upon request for the dialogue on 18 January 2025. Please email your request to [email protected] by 6 December 2024.

General

Once tickets are sold, there are strictly no cancellation, exchange or refund.

For concession tickets, random verification checks may be carried out at the theatre.

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Photography

Photography and videography are strictly not allowed during the performance.

Accessibility

We welcome patrons who need accessible seating arrangements—including wheelchair users, those who require access to open captions, and those with assistance dogs.

Due to varying production designs and seating configurations, please contact us at [email protected] before booking your ticket so we can share more information about seating and routes with you. You can also find more information about accessibility at the Fringe website.

For queries or more information, please contact us at [email protected].

NOMA YINI PTY LTD

Noma Yiniis a Johannesburg-based company that is passionate about harnessing the power of story and theatre to inspire, educate, and entertain. We create innovative productions with a global footprint. Work that not only entertains but sparks meaningful conversations and fosters a deeper understanding of ourselves and our world.

PLAYWRIGHT & PERFORMER – TONY BONANI MIYAMBO

Tembisa-born Tony Bonani Miyambo is a BA Dramatic Arts graduate from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He currently works as a freelancer in the television, film and theatre industries. His credits include numerous award-winning theatre productions, some of which have toured the United States, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. His highlights include performing his one-man show The Cenotaph of Dan Wa Moriri at the Market and Playhouse theatres. Winner of the Marta award for Best Actor at the SETKÁNÍ/ENCOUNTER festival in Brno, CzechRepublic, Tony was also the recipient of the Brett Goldin bursary in 2014 and studied with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon, United Kingdom.

DIRECTOR - PHALA OOKEDITSE PHALA

Phala Ookeditse Phala was the animateur at The Centre for the Less Good Idea, an interdisciplinary incubator space for the arts, based in Maboneng, Johannesburg. He is a multi-award-winning ‘storiyer’ whose works have won awards in South Africa, USA, Czech Republic, and Australia. He holds a Masters in Dramatic Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. His works champion emotional and psychologically-stimulating storytelling as a uniquely African aesthetic. Hisf ocus and interest are on methodologies of making and creating work in ways that collapse and disrupt conventional norms.