Feedback from the Judge Ismail Mohammed (Director of the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown ) made after the FEDA finals about our work.
Best Costume and Make-up

Tshiamo Motlapele
Born NakedLebone II – College Of The Royal Bafokeng
Best Stage Crew

The Crew
NumbersSt. Stithian’s Girls
Best Lighting

Zuleka Kraai
For Colored GirlsSt. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley
Best Sound

Siphosihle Mbuli
#HashtagSt. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley
Best Special Effects/Audio Visual

The Cast & Crew
#HashtagSt. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley
Best Set Design

Victoria Chemaly
EclipsedSt. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley
Best Cameo Performance – Male

Katleho Pobe
Karoo GothicCrawford College – Lonehill
Best Cameo Performance – Female

Rebecca Matison
A Long Time AgoKing David – Victory Park
Best Ensemble

The Cast
DisplacedSt. Stithian’s Boys
Best Chorus Work

The Cast
LuisterSt. Andrew’s School for Girls
Best Original Script

Devon Kampmann
LuisterSt. Andrew’s School for Girls
Most Cutting Edge Production

The Cast & Crew
Pap & CorruptSacred Heart College
Best Supporting Actor

Mike Bergh
The FugueKingsmead College
Best Supporting Actress

Sandile Parirenyatwa
EclipsedSt. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley
Best Actor

Yarin Neuhaus
The Indian Want The BronxCrawford College - Sandton
Best Actress

Tshidziambi Mufamadi
EclipsedSt. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley
Best Director

Victoria Chemaly
EclipsedSt. Mary’s School For Girls – Waverley
Most Inspirational Production

Born Naked
Lebone II – College Of The Royal BafokengBest Production

Eclipsed
St. Mary’s School For Girls – WaverleyBest Actress

Tshidziambi Mufamadi
EclipsedSt. 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.
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.