2016 Winners – FEDA Festival

Feedback from the Judge Ismail Mohammed (Director of the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown ) made after the FEDA finals about our work.

The four productions chosen by Sylvaine Strike and Nat Ramabulana for the finals of the Festival of Excellence in Dramatic Art (FEDA) celebrated and honoured the power that theatre holds when it is the architecture of our consciousness

More than just celebrating excellence in dramatic art, FEDA offers us hope. It raises the profile that young people who are exposed to the arts have a better chance of becoming socially conscious and socially responsible citizens.

Hats off to Janet Baylis, Phillippa Sandilands and the 52 teachers whose work is a testimony that when political leadership fails it is theatre that can offer young people a moral and political compass. It offers them a voice for their moral outrage. It gives them the insight to re-envision our society. And in the face of profound failures by political leadership, theatre gives young people the bold courage to step right in front and to challenge us. It gives them the power to take ownership of how society can be shaped.

At the National Arts Festival this year, catch the 2016 winning FEDA play, ECLIPSED written by Danai Gurira and performed by St Mary's School (Waverley). This poignant and gut-wrenching saga about five young women whose lives are enmeshed in the Liberian Civil War is an emotionally powerful play about helplessness and the human impulse to adapt and survive under the cruelest circumstances of war.

If there is going to be one Fringe production that offers you a universal statement about the impact of war on young women --- and which is performed by five young women with astonishing conviction and remarkable acting skill --- then I have no doubt that it will be St Mary's production of Danai Gurira's play ECLIPSED

Best Costume and Make-up

Tshiamo Motlapele

Born Naked
Lebone II – College Of The Royal Bafokeng

Best Stage Crew

The Crew

Numbers
St. Stithian’s Girls

Best Lighting

Zuleka Kraai

For Colored Girls
St. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley

Best Sound

Siphosihle Mbuli

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St. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley

Best Special Effects/Audio Visual

The Cast & Crew

#Hashtag
St. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley

Best Set Design

Victoria Chemaly

Eclipsed
St. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley

Best Cameo Performance – Male

Katleho Pobe

Karoo Gothic
Crawford College – Lonehill

Best Cameo Performance – Female

Rebecca Matison

A Long Time Ago
King David – Victory Park

Best Ensemble

The Cast

Displaced
St. Stithian’s Boys

Best Chorus Work

The Cast

Luister
St. Andrew’s School for Girls

Best Original Script

Devon Kampmann

Luister
St. Andrew’s School for Girls

Most Cutting Edge Production

The Cast & Crew

Pap & Corrupt
Sacred Heart College

Best Supporting Actor

Mike Bergh

The Fugue
Kingsmead College

Best Supporting Actress

Sandile Parirenyatwa

Eclipsed
St. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley

Best Actor

Yarin Neuhaus

The Indian Want The Bronx
Crawford College - Sandton

Best Actress

Tshidziambi Mufamadi

Eclipsed
St. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley

Best Director

Victoria Chemaly

Eclipsed
St. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley

Most Inspirational Production

Born Naked

Lebone II – College Of The Royal Bafokeng

Best Production

Eclipsed

St. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley

Best Actress

Tshidziambi Mufamadi

Eclipsed
St. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley

Feedback from the Judge Ismail Mohammed (Director of the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown ) made after the FEDA finals about our work.

The four productions chosen by Sylvaine Strike and Nat Ramabulana for the finals of the Festival of Excellence in Dramatic Art (FEDA) celebrated and honoured the power that theatre holds when it is the architecture of our consciousness.

More than just celebrating excellence in dramatic art, FEDA offers us hope. It raises the profile that young people who are exposed to the arts have a better chance of becoming socially conscious and socially responsible citizens.

Hats off to Janet Baylis, Phillippa Sandilands and the 52 teachers whose work is a testimony that when political leadership fails it is theatre that can offer young people a moral and political compass. It offers them a voice for their moral outrage. It gives them the insight to re-envision our society. And in the face of profound failures by political leadership, theatre gives young people the bold courage to step right in front and to challenge us. It gives them the power to take ownership of how society can be shaped.

At the National Arts Festival this year, catch the 2016 winning FEDA play, ECLIPSED written by Danai Gurira and performed by St Mary's School (Waverley). This poignant and gut-wrenching saga about five young women whose lives are enmeshed in the Liberian Civil War is an emotionally powerful play about helplessness and the human impulse to adapt and survive under the cruelest circumstances of war.

If there is going to be one Fringe production that offers you a universal statement about the impact of war on young women --- and which is performed by five young women with astonishing conviction and remarkable acting skill --- then I have no doubt that it will be St Mary's production of Danai Gurira's play ECLIPSED.